Crooked Cop Racked Up $17K In Overtime, Dodged Scrutiny, Gets Pension
December 28th 2011 · 0 Comments
Cops net big bounty via court overtime
Dana DiFilippo | Philly.com
Dec. 27, 2011
THEY CALL IT “piling on”: Money-hungry police officers, looking to pad their paychecks with overtime, add their names to arrest reports and other investigative paperwork, no matter how minor their role.
That way, when a case arises in court, they get called to testify – and possibly paid overtime.
Piling on was such a problem in the Philadelphia Police Department that former Commissioner John Timoney, seeking to curb ballooning overtime costs, issued a directive on court notices in 1999 intended to tighten oversight and ensure that only essential officers appear in court.
But Lt. Richard Brown apparently didn’t get the memo on that effort – or he ignored it.
The Central Detectives supervisor fudged paperwork to rack up nearly $17,000 in court compensation that he wasn’t entitled to between 2006 and 2009, according to Internal Affairs investigators.
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