Police query review
PA Wellington The policemen’s union is unhappy about the way the Government is conducting a review which it feels will reduce police overtime payments. The Police Association’s secretary, Dr R. A. Moody, said yesterday that either the Government was trying to control the amount of overtime worked by the police, or trying to cut their overtime pay. Either way, he said the proposal would turn police-
men into clockwatchers, which he said would be “extremely dangerous.” The Government gave an assurance yesterday that policemen would be “properly compensated” for their work and that there was nothing unusual in the review. At present the police are paid overtime according to a system which aggregates overtime and penal entitlements to ail members of the force, giving them all four hours overtime each week
and providing for compensatory time off after that. Dr Moody said that the present review was “contrary to the spirit of the Police Act” and broke faith with the wage freeze. The Acting Minister of Police, Mr Thomson, said it was considered “timely” that the aggregate overtime payments system was looked at. He said there would be “close consultation” with the police service organisations throughout the review.
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Press, 25 June 1983, Page 9
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