HRP union president disputing overtime hours
Posted Mar 24, 2011 11:52:56 AM.
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The head of the union representing city police is disputing the reported overtime hours cited in a city document.
A report out of Auditor General’s office, obtained by CTV News, shows Halifax Regional Municipality has spent $50 million on overtime pay between 2007 and the fall of 2010.
The report shows seven of the top overtime earners are members of Halifax Regional Police and have brought home over $100,000 each, during that time period.
“Absolutely overstated,” said Dave Moore, president of the Halifax Regional Police Association. “Based on the information I have from the HRM payroll, that’s not true.”
“Numbers and statistics are exactly that,” Moore told News 95.7. “They can be tabulated in several different ways. I greatly dispute the number of officers, in terms of the hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars. That’s not true.”
Moore says every officer has to work overtime at some point, but the average take-home amount is between $4,000 and $5,000. He said officers working 60 or 70 hours a week on high profile cases will file a lot of overtime.
The majority of overtime being reported, however, is accumulated by time in court at about 58 per cent.
“I guess the only other alternative to paying overtime is to not pay it and let all the cases be discharged by the courts,” he said.
Moore says the overtime hours need to be looked at on a case-by-case basis.
