Quincy paying extra night shifts premium pay to Quincy Police Officers who work days is costing Quincy taxpayers big money

5 Investigates dug into payroll data from the past two years and found officers working shifts in broad daylight cashing in on that perk.

— News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

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Quincy paying extra night shifts premium pay to Quincy Police Officers who work days is costing Quincy taxpayers big money

Lots of money.

In coverage that harkens recollections of Quincy’s former double and sometimes even triple-dipping Quincy Police lieutenant who is now a federal ex-con as well as a considerable number of Massachusetts State Police payroll grifters, the Quincy Police Department is again under scrutiny for apparently at least open to questioning pay practices.

Quincy taxpayers’ money going up in flames
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Per the review of payroll records, a local television station investigative news team found that apparently $2.3 million in premium working night shifts pay was paid to Quincy Police officers who work days over the past two years. 

Additionally, this pay has an even greater further impact on local taxpayers as the increased pay offers the very real possibility of increasing these officers’ eventual retirement benefits and so further burdening the City of Quincy’s already hard-strapped and among the bottom four of the 105 Massachusetts municipal employee pension funds.

Police Chief  Paul “The Beav” Keenan in Interrogation Room 3?
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In response to media inquiries, Quincy Police Chief Paul “The Beav” Keenan and one of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s surely but coincidentally one of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s brothers-in-law endeavored to spin his way out of trouble by saying that he has strived to see Quincy have a quality police force and that the police union contract with the City of Quincy allows premium night pay for Quincy police officers who normally only work day shifts.

The Beav also defended the paying of Quinn Bill benefits to local officers who have pursued certain extra pay worthy college degrees; at the same time, the station’s reporters “… discovered a few officers scrambling to get degrees online after … asking questions about the benefit.” 

Apparently, these officers apparently do not appreciate how completing degrees ex post facto would not make up for receiving undeserved Quinn Bill benefits before their degrees might be obtained.

It isn’t illegal if the police chief says it isn’t illegal
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The Beav’s arguable kayfabe did not, however, explain the contract’s miraculous turning of night into day.

Perhaps more importantly, the media coverage noted at the very end of its text coverage that its sources noted “… that questions about these incentives have come up in ongoing outside investigations involving the Quincy Police Department.”

At the same time, Quincy Quarry must only properly note that it was not a source for this media expose by another reputable regional media outlet even if the Quarry has on a number of occasions shared useful information with its media brethren which lead to featured coverage by those media.

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