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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.

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

Martins said Nassau could save more than $ 60 million by cutting overtime in the county police department and at the county jail in East Meadow.

In the statement released by his office, he said, «We're strengthening the NYPD's ranks, devoting new officers to counter-terror work and neighborhood policing, while securing vital fiscal reforms in overtime and civilianization.

We had a very good summer in this city due to the significant amount of overtime that allowed me to put thousands of additional police officers» in public housing and other high crime neighborhoods, Bratton said.

On a separate track, Fitzpatrick said he is working with the state inspector general's office to investigate overtime records at the Syracuse Police Department.

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.

«Pat Ryder's almost 35 years of Nassau County police experience will guarantee the exceptional level of safety that the public expects all while controlling police overtime costs,» Curran said in a statement Tuesday.

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

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.

While Suffolk police overtime rose last year, sheriff and correction officer overtime decreased from 2013 to 2014 by $ 6.7 million, because of additional correction officer hiring and renovations of four dorms at the Yaphank jail, the budget review office said.

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

Nassau Police Benevolent Association president James Carver said the pace of retirements — about 150 officers left the force last year and as many as 250 more are expected to put in their papers this year — makes it challenging to get ahead of the overtime curve.

Suffolk police officials said a reduction in the number of officers in recent years and an effort to proactively deploy resources based on crime patterns were driving the rise in overtime.

But total police overtime spending rose slightly, to nearly $ 67.8 million because police personnel are making higher salaries under a new labor deal, officials said.

Nassau police overtime costs are currently down 15 percent year - to - date in the first two months of 2015 compared to the same period in 2014, Krumpter said.

To cover the nearly $ 18 million shortfall in budgeted overtime costs, Naughton said funds were moved from other parts of the police department budget where there was a surplus.

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.

All of Jackowski's overtime was earned legitimately under rules of union contracts, said First Deputy Police Chief David Barrette.

But the analysis said overtime grew despite changes in the police head count, which dipped in 2012 through 2014, but climbed above benchmark levels in 2015 and 2016.

The Nassau legislature's Office of Budget Review noted in a report that soaring police overtime in Nassau, which topped a record $ 70 million last year, can not be blamed on low staffing levels or union work rules, a fiscal adviser to the county legislature said.

Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda says the mayor has been willing to spend millions of dollars on overtime to get officers on the street, producing a continuing drop in crime.

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

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.

Plans to increase sales tax estimates by $ 5 million and to cut police overtime by $ 5 million are not in line with historical trends, Barsky said.

Republicans said they would replace the fee revenue by restructuring county debt; boosting estimates of sales tax revenue; using unspent money from the 2017 budget and reducing police overtime projections.

After his department did an audit of the city police department, he said he realized that the force has too many vacancies and is using overtime to fill shifts.

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.

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.

Last year, officers earned $ 64.65 million in police overtime, which included $ 14.8 million attributed to Sandy, it said.

Town Attorney Mario A. Giacobbe said having a temporary shelter in the town will help reduce police department overtime and avoid taking a patrol car off the road, «simply to take a dog to West Seneca, which could take up to two hours depending on traffic volume.»