Montreal City Weblog

Kate 10:45 on 2022-12-07 Permalink Reply  

• Ephraim 11:43 on 2022-12-07 Permalink

  I do wonder if that rate of absenteeism is because of vaccinations or other jobs. Could it also be a way they are ripping us of, by ensuring that there aren’t enough police so that we have to pay overtime?

  Definitely time to start training a non-police corps to professionally direct traffic… as well as brining in some social workers to go with police. And some non-officers to take reports (or just put the damn PDF fillable files online). It’s time we look at policing differently

• Em 14:59 on 2022-12-07 Permalink

  Overtime is definitely part of the culture of being a police officer, in my opinion. They tend to count on a lot of it to boost their salaries and I bet they’ll be resistant to changing it.

  However, I would imagine there’s also a lot of stress leave due to the nature of the job. As well as the requirement to be in good physical shape, which probably means the bar for sick leave is likely lower.

• Ephraim 19:18 on 2022-12-07 Permalink

  There are a few tricks that police forces have been known to use to force overtime. One is to make an arrest close to the end of their shift so that they have to submit paperwork before the end of shift. In order to combat this, some forces require half shift partners. You start at 8AM until 5PM and your partner was from 3PM to 12PM and another from 12PM to 9PM… so they do the paperwork. This was done because prosecutors complained that those last cases were inevitable dropped. In some forces the other way to combat it was the bonus pay that officers were paid related to how many cases were accepted by prosecutors and how many were dismissed and therefore any case that wasn’t prosecuted counted against their bonus and they had an interest in not faking a final arrest/stop of the day.
  There are many websites dedicated to ways that the police fleece the public purse.