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Impact of returning officers to patrol on overtime spending
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Commissioner Jessica Tisch discusses the positive impact of returning officers to patrol duties on overtime spending and overall department efficiency.
- 11% decrease in uniform overtime spend in January compared to the previous year
- Returning officers to operational commands affects overtime spend positively
- Improved street safety and reduced response times as additional benefits
Yusef Salaam
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Thank you.
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The return of these officers from being behind the desk back into the streets to do patrol transit and housing and and and so forth.
0:50:16
Have you seen that this has also been impacting the overall overtime spending in a positive way?
Jessica Tisch
0:50:28
As I mentioned in my testimony, when we put our new overtime control plan into place starting on January 1 for the uniformed officers, In the month of January we saw almost an 11% decrease in our uniform overtime spend compared to the previous January.
0:50:51
And that was not just that it's an 11% decrease.
0:50:55
We were on a trajectory to be 11% over for the month of January.
0:51:01
So we've really turned the tide there.
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And yes, I do believe that returning officers working desk jobs to our operational commands does have an impact on overtime spend in the department.
0:51:16
It also makes our streets safer and brings our response times down.