In 2014, internal affairs investigators discovered members of troubled Troop E had routinely filed for more than 30 hours a week in overtime and paid details, but didn’t work the entire shifts, and sometimes no part of them at all.http://bos.gl/kEuRPhs
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The apparent overtime abuse never made it into the investigators’ final report, which concluded only that the officers had wrongly freelanced a few funeral procession escorts.http://bos.gl/kEuRPhs
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The 2014 instance was just one of many red flags signaling potential payroll fraud in the state’s largest law enforcement agency in recent years, according to a Globe review of dozens of internal files.http://bos.gl/kEuRPhs
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The department’s reports show that leaders were repeatedly confronted not only with remarkable amounts of overtime hours but also suspicious sick time claims and sloppy record keeping across the agency.http://bos.gl/kEuRPhs
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Audits and disciplinary letters reviewed by the Globe show that at least 67 troopers were suspected of abusing sick leave since 2011, though they received little, if any, punishment beyond an infrequent written warning.http://bos.gl/kEuRPhs
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“The dynamics of what you are seeing [in the Massachusetts State Police] is the culture has taken hold where officers think the rules don’t apply to them,” said Christy E. Lopez, a Georgetown Law School professor.http://bos.gl/kEuRPhs
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“We owe the public to be transparent and do whatever we can do to show people we are serious about earning back the public trust,” Colonel Kerry Gilpin said.http://bos.gl/kEuRPhs
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Is there a rule that if you are called in for overtime to say pick someone up at Logan and it takes you two hours does their contract say you must pay for 4 no matter if it’s under?
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