Audit: Poor oversight of police payroll, overtime
The Philadelphia Police Department poorly supervised its payroll, leading to overtime abuses, City Controller Alan Butkovitz found in an audit released Monday.
Audit: Poor oversight of police payroll, overtime
The Philadelphia Police Department poorly supervised its payroll, leading to overtime abuses, City Controller Alan Butkovitz found in an audit released Monday.
The audit examined departmental data from 2006 through 2009. Police officials say some payroll and overtime problems have been corrected since Commissioner Charles Ramsey in 2009 created an overtime-management unit charged with reining in sky-high overtime spending. He has credited the unit with slashing $17 million in overtime in the last three years.
In Butkovitz's audit, a sample testing of the department's processing of overtime revealed that officers often inputted their own time to the payroll system, which then was processed without the required supervisory approval. Four officers, about 20 percent of the time, entered their own time onto the daily attendance record. On 13 of 16 occasions, the officers reported that they worked overtime, auditors found.
“There is an unacceptably high risk for improper payments when employees are permitted to enter their own time into the payroll system,” Butkovitz said. “Payroll filings should not be accepted for processing without the appropriate supervisory approval."
Read the full audit here.
Way to promote efficiency- Poor oversight my foot. It's just the exposing of another of the many look-the-other-way perks of being a cop. It's ironic that the most consistent chiseling, conniving group that I have ever known are Philly cops. There are some rare good individuals, but as a whole, I would say this group is so acustom to special treatment and entitlements that it becomes part of who they are to get something for nothing. The irony? Cops are crooks. The put away criminals for a living all the while performing criminal acts themselves. There are so many that don't get caught because of the cop's code of covering up for a brother.
— DarnelX 
OPPSS, Four years of unsupervised approved overtime, how did this one get by!!!— Dadair1- And for officers who filled in their improper time, why do they still have jobs or get to collect a pension?— flyers2thecup
- Mismanagement and waste in the PPD. I am shocked... Shocked!— DonQ
- I love how every single audit of every single public organization in Philadelphia finds the exact same conclusion: The taxpayer is being robbed, fraud, waste, and corruption at every level. Seriously, literally every single audit of every organization, every year, concludes the same thing: the money is WASTED and there is massive FRAUD in all these places.— warrentheape
- From 2006 to 2009 we already knew there were overtime abuses. What about the past three years?— gemini48
- Sounds like lazy supervisors— Mayfairnomo
- And ppl wondering how their neighbors who only make 30k with no history of family wealth still can afford a house on the shore, SMDH...Lol— Lyrra
On Ramsey's watch. Past time for this incompetent to be ousted.— dogman5- This is an outrage. And in the mean time our taxes continue to go up.— aviator
Comment removed.- Thanks for being right on top of that, Buttkiss.— wislad
