SEATTLE — A Seattle police
oversight office says the department wasted more than $1 million on loosely
controlled overtime last year as officers trained to comply with a Justice
Department agreement to curb excessive force.
Office of Professional
Accountability Director Pierce Murphy reported Tuesday the spending produced
little of value.
The Seattle Times reports
(http://bit.ly/ZrOVw1) instances of officers taking overtime while on vacation
and one case of more than 31 hours of overtime in a single 24-hour period.
New Police Chief Kathleen
O'Toole promised Tuesday to take immediate steps to correct problems.
