>It does? I missed the connection between police working overtime and
>blue laws.
>
>--Ben
>
>brobborb wrote:
> > B makes alot of sense! heh
>
> > b) This is actually more related to your situation. Police Officers are
> > slated to work x number of hours. Any hours beyond is booked as
> > overtime.
> > State governments are doing everything possible to control the number of
> > overtime hours they would have to pay out. It would be a huge public
> > relations disaster if the decision makers came out and said, "We will
> > reduce police protection in order to balance the budget." But that is a
> > huge part of the decision. They turn a bad situation into a good by
> > claiming they are doing it for religious reasons which makes the
> > masses happy.
How about this? With liquor stores open, you need more police to drive by
the liquor stores once in awhile to make sure no minors are purchasing alcohol.
Since police is needed everyday, one can easily see that they can break
through the 40 hour barrier every week if asked to work Sunday - Saturday
for more then 6 hours a day.
So if your area needed a min of 100 PO hours in a week to maintain some
semblance of order, the best scenario would be to have about 17 POs and
give a little OT to one different PO each week. But let's say you can cut
a couple of hours 3 hours on Sunday. That is 97 hours a week and then you
can reduce the number of POs to 16 and give some more OT. But less overall
because it's cheaper to pay 1 extra hour of OT then to have a full person
due to medical and pension.
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