Police Overtime: An Examination of Key Issues. National Institute of Justice, Research in Brief

摘要

Discussed in this Research in Brief are results from a national study sponsored by National Institute of Justice (NIJ) on police overtime to examine how State and local police departments managed overtime and how local law enforcement agencies used Federal money authorized for overtime payments. Overtime work has been generally viewed from inside and outside the criminal justice community as overused, misused, and inadequately regulated. In the past 15 years, Federal support to State and local police agencies for overtime has grown. As a result, interest in whether funds used by local law enforcement agencies for overtime payments are well spent has increased.