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Sunday, September 25, 2011

OSU police overtime pay tops $1 million

By Christopher Magan | Sunday, September 25, 2011, 10:27 AM

Reporter Josh Sweigart and I reported in Sunday’s paper how Ohio State University has so many special events and extra police shifts that some officers earn more in overtime pay than in base salary.

Much of the cost is picked up by promoters and other groups that hold events on campus, according to Police Chief Paul Denton. He added that university administrators would rather use overtime to fill the gap than hire more officers.

Union contract provisions allow officers to work as many as 14 hours a day, as long as they take at least seven consecutive hours off between shifts. That’s as many as 119 hours a week.

What do you think? Should OSU pay that much overtime or hire more police?

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