Detroit Police officer reported 2,617 hours of overtime in fiscal year 2018
Michigan capitol confidential: By Tom Gantert | Aug. 23, 2019

The Detroit Police Department has started an investigation into a police officer who reported 2,617 hours of overtime in 2018. That much overtime translates into an average of 90.3 hours worked every week of the year or 7.16 hours of overtime a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

Those hours boosted this one officer’s annual pay by $100,737 in 2018. Altogether, he collected $159,387 from the city that year.

His 2,614 hours included

  • 1,912 hours of regular overtime pay
  • 242 for care of a police dog in his own home.
  • 66 overtime hours when he was recalled to duty
  • 696 hours of overtime for being on standby.

Six Detroit police claimed more than 2,000 hours of overtime last year.