So it takes an average of 70+ hours per week for a Durham police officer to oversee towing and the moonlighting of department officers? City manager Tom Bonfield, according to this Herald-Sun story, has ordered an audit into why one officer was paid about $60,000 in overtime, which more than doubled her salary. The deputy city manager, Wanda Page, comments below about overtime payments reportedly made to officer Alesha Robinson-Taylor.
The printout showed that Robinson-Taylor claimed 1,750.5 hours of overtime, the equivalent of 33.7 hours for every week of the year. The overtime payments more than doubled her ordinary salary.
“Certainly, it is unusual that one officer would be awarded that amount of overtime or would be required to work that amount of hours,” Page said.
The next-largest overtime claim in the department was for 438 hours, the equivalent of 8.4 hours a week.
Police spokeswoman Kammie Michael, asked for comment from Lopez and Robinson-Taylor, referred all questions about the matter to the city manager’s office.
Page said administrators believe they’re dealing with “an isolated incident” because there’s nothing else on the list that stands out from “the special operations and other things the Police Department has had going on over the past year.”
The question is, who approved the time sheets?
