Police overtime also was cut by $ 1.1 million.
Police overtime also was cut by $ 1.1 million, while firefighter overtime increased because of vacancies in the department.
Not exact matches
Explaining that the two sides had agreed to key cost savings like a cap on NYPD
overtime, de Blasio
also indicated that he and council leadership believe the added personpower will allow NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton to implement true neighborhood
policing.
On a separate track, the district attorney said he
also is working with state investigators to look at
overtime practices in the Syracuse
Police Department.
Heilig said other expenditures to pay for
police overtime and for an East End emergency communications system
also have been made without legislative approval.
She said she would
also like to boost the number of
police officers patrolling city streets to combat crime and
also cut down on
overtime costs.
Maragos found
overtime is «heavily skewed toward a relatively small number of
police force members who
also tend to be the highest paid and eligible for retirement.»
Also in the budget is a $ 1 million reduction in
overtime for the Syracuse Fire Department — from $ 4.25 million to $ 3.25 million — and a $ 1 million reduction in
police overtime — from $ 7.5 million to $ 6.5 million.
The asset forfeiture fund
also has been used to fund
police overtime and to provide $ 1.5 million for the East End emergency radio system, DA's spokesman Robert Clifford said.
During the two and a half hour hearing Bratton
also explained that he wants to hire more than 1,000 new
police officers and spend up to $ 30 million in
overtime costs to retrain officers and supervisors on how to verbally and physical engage suspects.
If I follow axolotl's logic I can assume that she is
also one of those people that wants to strip firefighters and
police of their pensions and
overtime.