The originator of this idea needs an old-fashioned Massachusetts attitude adjustment:
What does 1.5 hours on the time sheet mean. Does that man you write a ticket and you get annual leave?
Write 6 tickets and get the day off?
What kind of crap is that?
Dont these cops get paid? If they get paid that is reward enopugh for doing their job. Giving Bonus's for writing tickets is BS.
I suppose if a Paramedic taks someone to a hospital they get 1.5 hours off too?
As a former COP, my question exactly. Doesn't this fall into "taking gratuities"?Time jam the courts up with pleas of not guilty.
It sounds like they have a micromanagement system that requires the troopers to account for every minute of their work day.
That can't be write - can it?
And remember, it is not a quota.
It could also mean that if you work your normal day, those 6 tickets produce 9 hours of overtime.
That would be downright scary to think that a cop knows that he could get, what, 1.5 hours x $30/hr * 1.5 (overtime multiplier) = $68 every time he decides to pull somebody over.
I read it differently. The way I saw it was that the issuance of a ticket was to be credited with substantiating 1.5 hours of the workday. A verbal warning was substantiation for only 0.5 hours.
Previously, if the trooper issued a warning (verbal or written) or a ticket, they substantiated 1 hour of their day. The changes mean that 16 verbal warnings, 8 written warnings, or 5.33 tickets would substantiate the officer's 8 hour day. That provides an incentive to issue tickets, rather than warnings, IMO.
The originator of this idea needs an old-fashioned Massachusetts attitude adjustment: