Appeal hearings were set Wednesday for one police officer who alleges that he was unjustly suspended without pay and for another who has been fired.

The Vicksburg Civil Service Commission set hearing dates of Aug. 3 for Rudolph Walker and Aug. 24 for Brenda Brown. Both hearings are set to begin at 9 a.m. in City Hall Annex.

Walker, a 30-year veteran of the Vicksburg Police Department, has diabetes and has said his condition began causing blackout spells earlier this year.

Walker was working a night patrol shift when city officials learned around late May that he was having the spells. They placed him on administrative duty for a week and requested a medical opinion on his fitness to return to patrol duty. Walker was then placed “on leave without pay pending receipt of information from (his) doctor stating that (he) is no longer having ‘blackout spells,'” according to a June letter from Deputy Police Chief Richard O’Bannon to Walker.

Walker has said he is in effect being fired because of a medical condition. He has asked to be paid under family-and-medical leave, said his attorney, Richard Dean of Vicksburg.

“Our position is that he was suspended without pay,” Dean said of the city’s action that Walker is appealing.

Brown was fired June 30. She is accused of domestic violence and was placed on administrative leave June 1 after an internal investigation. The VPD did not identify Brown when she was suspended and it has given no specifics about the domestic-violence complaint against her.

In other business Wednesday, the commission: