My brother-in-law is a cop and I asked him why they're allowed to get grossly overweight, and aren't there any fitness standards? He pretty much told me (paraphrasing here) that there are fitness tests, but they're optional. This may vary from city to city or whatever, but in his service, fitness testing is not mandatory. It just seems weird to me that they would require all cops in his service to pass firearms testing annually, but not fitness testing.