How can management eliminate excessive overtime?
What will be an ideal response?
The answer is well known and rational but proactive police management has to have the will to fight the police unions and institutionalize procedures that really work.
1) Notification to management for any planned overtime.
2) Cooperation by the courts to limit and schedule police in courts on a timely basis.
3) Written guidelines instructing supervisors to limit overtime with any approval of overtime entered into a database with reasons and good records.
4) Emergency planning must document straight time and over time.
5) Special events such as rock concerts, parades and national dignitaries must be planned using the maximum time of part time a straight time.
6) Eliminate compensatory time.
7) Flexible work schedules depending on events can eliminate most over time.
8) Adequate staffing for all police departments will eliminate most overtime.
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