Sentences with phrase «for police overtime»

But Councilor Steven Thompson said the money cut for police overtime has been shifted to hire new officers.

Acting Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder says he made the «strong recommendation'to provide Curran with protection, but such costs for police overtime have been an issue in the past.

Nassau originally budgeted $ 50 million for police overtime costs in 2014.

Heilig said other expenditures to pay for police overtime and for an East End emergency communications system also have been made without legislative approval.

Not exact matches

Two years later, it's hard to see Occupy as having achieved much of anything, other than a lot of overtime for police and a few weeks» fodder for the nightly news.

The City of Chicago is planning for more than 70,000 people to mob an election - night rally in Grant Park for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, an event that will involve police and firefighters working overtime, blocked streets and at least $ 2 million in extra costs.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone's proposed $ 3.05 billion budget for 2018 overestimates sales tax revenues, underestimates police pay and overtime and uses «risky assumptions» that could widen the county's structural deficit to up to $ 150 million next year, legislative analysts said.

As mayor of Rochester, Duffy (who is the city's former police chief) is putting his foot down when it comes to overtime for police and firefighters.

For the third straight year, a Schenectady police sergeant made the most money in the city in 2017 — with an overtime pay well above his base salary.

Behind closed doors, Syracuse's Common Councilors didn't dispute Mayor Stephanie Miner's reasons for preserving police and fire overtime, she said.

For example, Mangano wants to tack a new $ 105 fee onto all traffic and parking tickets to raise $ 64 million next year to fund police department hires and cover rising officer salaries and overtime.

The other seven counts include fourth - degree criminal mischief for damaging an exterior door to the residence; second - degree criminal trespass for going inside the dwelling; fourth - degree criminal facilitation for not seizing more than one - eighth of an ounce of cocaine from the residence; official misconduct for not seizing the cocaine; official misconduct for proposing the drug unit file a false report to cover up its illegal entry; second - degree offering a false instrument for filing; and official misconduct for offering overtime to another police officer to coverup what happened.

But beyond vowing to examine the budget for waste and inefficiencies, they've offered only general proposals to reduce police overtime, eliminate patronage jobs and cut outside legal contracts.

Overtime for State Police and the state prison system surged 64 percent in June and July — an increase of more than $ 1 million a day — compared to the same period in 2014 because of a three - week manhunt for two escaped prisoners.

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday night that the de Blasio administration will likely expand the size of the police force in exchange for capping overtime for officers.

• Miner is seeking proposals for a private contractor to provide security at the airport instead of paying overtime to city police officers.

Syracuse, NY — Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick blasted «overtime excesses» and ineptitude by leaders of the Syracuse police department for allowing former Sgt. Thomas Connellan to get paid for working two jobs at the same time.

One day after Mayor Bill de Blasio signaled his support for a New York Police Department review of the department's practice of allowing officers on modified duty to boost their salaries with overtime pay, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn said the administration could not be trusted to conduct that review and asked the federal Department of Justice to intervene.

Amid recent cuts in overtime for police, Brown says Derenda's departure is not related to budget problems.

• Miner is seeking bids for a private contractor to provide security at the airport instead of paying overtime to city police officers.

Overtime hours in Suffolk have increased 31 percent since 2012, when Suffolk police were paid for 488,248.88 hours.

Suffolk police employees were paid for 639,858.38 hours of overtime in 2014, compared with 549,240.50 in 2013, data show.

The data highlight the long - running struggle in Nassau and Suffolk to bring down police overtime, which accounts for about half of all overtime spending in each county.

The mayor and police commissioner immediately apologized for the incident, but Frascatore was still able to earn the overtime, in addition to his base pay of $ 57,747, according to payroll records.

The council had scheduled a meeting Wednesday afternoon to discuss staffing and overtime for the police and fire departments.

Suffolk police have budgeted $ 35 million for overtime in 2015, while Nassau has budgeted for $ 51 million in police overtime expenses in 2015..

In June 2015, as part of negotiations for the Fiscal Year 2016 Adopted Budget, the de Blasio Administration and the City Council agreed to significant new police hiring and an overtime cap for the NYPD.9 At that time the cap was set at $ 513 million in fiscal year 2016 and $ 453 million in fiscal year 2017 and beyond.10 However, as one factor in determining the cost of uniformed overtime is the salary of employees, the City has increased the cap to reflect collective bargaining wage increases.

Citing a need to better deploy police and curb overtime costs, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is extending a policy that limits the number of permits allowed for neighborhood street fairs in 2018.

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.»

The first - half figures, DiNapoli noted, do not include most of the $ 22 million in overtime earned by state police and corrections officers searching for escaped prisoners David Sweat and Richard Matt.

In Suffolk, payroll costs for 3,767 police officers, detectives, supervisors and civilian employees rose by $ 29 million last year due to contractual raises, increased overtime spending and retirement payouts.

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.

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and relatives of two men killed by police called for NYC to end the practice of paying overtime to cops placed on desk duty while under investigation.

Nassau Comptroller George Maragos, a Republican - turned - Democrat who's running for county executive, testified that Republican County Executive Edward Mangano's 2017 proposed budget has nearly $ 115 million in risky assumptions, including new fees that may not be approved, sluggish sales tax growth and understated police overtime expenses.

Mr. de Blasio left less wiggle room when it came to the request for more cops, which supporters, including Councilman Jimmy Vacca, have argued would save the city significant overtime money and would allow police to better handle the new administration's priorities, including increased traffic monitoring.

Outside City Hall Wednesday, Bratton said the overtime in the mayor's preliminary budget helps the department compensate for reduced headcount — but like every police chief, if offered more cops, he'd use them.

In Suffolk, overtime for sworn police personnel increased by $ 10.4 million, according to the report.

BY BRIAN EDSALL When Brad Weidel became police chief of Ramapo in 2016 following Peter Brower's retirement, his employment agreement with the Town of Ramapo for 2016 - 2019 outlined that he «shall not be eligible for overtime pay» and was issued a base salary of $ 225,000.

Miner said she made arguments in private to councilors that cutting overtime for firefighters would cost the city federal funding and that police overtime money couldn't simply be thrown at hiring new officers.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Behind closed doors, Syracuse's Common Councilors didn't dispute Mayor Stephanie Miner's reasons for preserving police and fire overtime, she said today.

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The state needs to make a formal request, roughly itemizing costs such as rebuilding transportation infrastructure and homes, and paying for local police and fire overtime.

The chase involved 26,378 hours of work by the Virginia State Police and 14,924 hours of overtime for nearly five months.

«In addition, the cost savings realized in this consolidation will allow the police department to respond to other pressing needs, including the purchase of a body - worn camera system as part of a pilot project to improve transparency and safety, the equipment and overtime costs necessary to provide support for community festivals and events, and a camera system at our police headquarters.»

Marijuana eradication requires that state police work overtime during the summer and wasted nearly 31,000 hours of officer's time in each of 2003 and 2004, for example, accounting for 8.9 % of the criminal related hours for the state police during those years.

As counsel for the plaintiffs, Matthew has won numerous out - of - court settlements in a class action and collective action discrimination, overtime and education claims — including many cases brought by police officers and educators.

It is worth nothing that many police officers receive overtime pay for going to court, and that going to court is part of their job.

Those days are mostly long gone as, despite popular myths, police are paid (in many cases paid overtime) to show up at court and for the most part are required to do so.

I was responsible for the administration the police departments payroll / scheduling system Telestaff which included creating and assigning schedules, keeping reports of overtime worked, filling needed vacancies within the schedule and submitted bi-weekly payroll for the department to the cities finance department.