The bottom line of a press conference held yesterday at City Hall: Baltimore Police are not just clueless as to whether the $47 million they dispensed in overtime last year was justified.
They’re not even sure if officers worked the regular (non-overtime) hours they’re paid for.
That was the conclusion of Finance Director Henry Raymond, tapped by Mayor Catherine Pugh to tell reporters about the preliminary findings of a long-in-coming consultant’s report on police overtime.
“The Baltimore Police Department,” Raymond said, “lacks internal controls that would allow the department to insure that officers are working all of the regular hours for which they are paid as well as to insure any overtime hours are necessary.”
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