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CoolBuddy06

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Saw this on Chronicle site. Some of the deserve it, like those school presidents. But why are police senior officers earning such fat figures in overtime? How many hours of overtime do they work in a day?

It depends on the assignment. If the Officer is assigned to the DWI Task Force, The regular duty hours are at night. DWI arrests are likely to go to court. Court starts between 8:30 and 9:30 depending on the court. The actual trial will not start till later and may last several days. The officer has to be there and ready to testify. Then there are the traffic citations that are written on Night shift. Those also have daytime trials. Under staff district patrols, this means the officer will go from call to call to call. At the end of the shift, said officer must input these reports. Then comes the overtime programs, an officer has a choice on which ones to work from hot spot patrol to traffic enforcement. Don't blame the officer, if we had a decent wage most of us would not work the overtime.

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As its been explained to me (by an HPD officer): most of the overtime is going to be on court appearances. Secondly is for pre-scheduled events made and paid for by private companies requiring security. The next most common is minimum staffing and task-force operations.

With the firefighters the majority of overtime goes to maintaining minimum staffing on the fire trucks & ambulances.

Of course there are exceptions to the rules and those who obviously abuse the system. He was telling me that when he sorted the list by highest overtime earners, he found that most of those people also had desk jobs and are not as strictly supervised as field officers.

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