When Troy City Manager Steven Dworsky went looking for ways to reduce $400,000 in annual police overtime, he targeted a lucrative policy that pays officers for working during their vacations. He rightly says the policy should end.
At issue is a practice, in place since 1984, that permits police officers to fill in for thmselves on their vacations at time- and-a-half overtime rates. According to figures obtained by our reporter, Tim O'Brien, 30 of the city's 128 officers were paid a total of $14,137 for working during their vacations. Records show overtime was paid across the board, from cops on the beat to assistant chiefs.
The Troy police union argues that …
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