Guarino’s got his arms around the recently-released consultant’s report on the Greensboro Police Department. As he only he can, the good doctor clearly and concisely summed up a wealth of information.

Guarino noted how consultant Carroll Buracker described “described certain problems with pay,” where, because of overtime and off-duty work, “some officers of lower rank were making more money than the highest rank officers.”

One of those highest rank officers would be Police Chief Tim Bellamy. According to the report’s executive summary:

Two personnel earned more than the chief of police. The top earnings of $139,354 was for a police lieutenant; a sergeant earned the second highest with $136,653.. One police officer II, one SPO, two MPOs, six sergeants and two lieutenants (a total of 12) earned more than three or four of the assistant chiefs; the fourth assistant chief did not make the top 20.

Buracker concludes that “no employee should earn more than the chief of police in any police department.”