While overall crime in Cheney continues to inch upwards, perhaps the most startling increase shown in the Police Department’s recent Monthly Accountability Report (MAR) is the amount of overtime paid through nine months of the current budget year.
According to the September MAR, with 75 percent of the year elapsed the department is at 329.1 percent of its $16,000 of budgeted overtime, having paid $52,661.11 so far with three more months remaining. By comparison, department Cmdr. Rick Campbell said overtime was at 131.2 percent of budget at this same time last year, and finished 2013 totaling $...
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