Texas police officer indicted for overtime fraud
A former Fort Worth, Texas, police officer was recently indicted on 12 counts of tampering with a governmental record and one count of theft by a public servant after traffic supervisors discovered that he had received nearly $22,000 in overtime for hours he had not worked between 2008 and 2010, the Fort Worth Star Telegram reports.
Supervisors found that Herman Young had recorded incorrect times in his ticket books in order to qualify for overtime, and sometimes failed to log a time altogether. As a result of the discovery, an internal investigation was launched that identified inconsistencies in eight other officers' records.
A payroll analysis found that officers had misreported times they issued tickets during their normal working hours to claim overtime pay under the Selective Traffic Enforcement Program grant, collecting a total of $231,000. According to the news source, the city council has since approved the reimbursement of these funds to the Texas Transportation Department.
Elsewhere in the country, the two highest-earning police officers in Jersey City, New Jersey, were recently found to have logged approximately 1,000 hours of overtime each last year, according to the Jersey Journal. Although this was procured legally, some have called for overtime to be distributed more evenly.
Supervisors found that Herman Young had recorded incorrect times in his ticket books in order to qualify for overtime, and sometimes failed to log a time altogether. As a result of the discovery, an internal investigation was launched that identified inconsistencies in eight other officers' records.
A payroll analysis found that officers had misreported times they issued tickets during their normal working hours to claim overtime pay under the Selective Traffic Enforcement Program grant, collecting a total of $231,000. According to the news source, the city council has since approved the reimbursement of these funds to the Texas Transportation Department.
Elsewhere in the country, the two highest-earning police officers in Jersey City, New Jersey, were recently found to have logged approximately 1,000 hours of overtime each last year, according to the Jersey Journal. Although this was procured legally, some have called for overtime to be distributed more evenly.
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