So if the thinking is that this is for an insurance payout, where dying in the line of duty pays but suicide doesn’t, it is a twisted path. If they find the bullets fired from his own weapon, and no perps are ever apprehended or motive discovered would the uncertainty mean it would not be ruled suicide, thus the payout would occur? I guess they will see if he has recently been diagnosed with a terminal illness, but even if he had, that is only circumstantial, doesn’t clearly show suicide.
It is very easy to determine if suicide or not. . .usually in a matter of hours.
Suicide in real life is not like TV where some guy offs himself and through a complicated set-up, hides that fact.
Or is the survivors pension larger than the retirement pension? But the only way that makes sense would be if the officer was terminally ill and knew it.