limited their use. I stand by the statement that grants have been cut. COPS grants provided funding for positions and manpower, not equipment only (you know like gas masks, tasers, HAZMAT clothing, communication systems, etc.) and not equipment that most forces do not need. Grants are available for BUYING TASERS and the other equipment from their token vendors. (To enrich their friends.)
From your replies I can tell that you work on a small force, thus your answers are limited to your limited or small experiences. You need to try a little research on that overtime topic. It is no long just salaried employees that are exempt from overtime. It is a matter of how much money is earned. Realize that many, many departments have shift supervisors and other "management" positions that are no longer entitled to overtime.
Under the new FairPay rules, workers earning less than $23,660 per year — or $455 per week — are guaranteed overtime protection. This will strengthen overtime rights for 6.7 million American workers, including 1.3 million low-wage workers who were denied overtime under the old rules.
http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/fairpay/main.htm First responders generally do not qualify as exempt executives because their primary duty is not management. They are not exempt administrative employees because their primary duty is not the performance of office or non-manual work directly related to the management or general business operations of the employer or the employer’s customers. Similarly, they are not exempt learned professionals because their primary duty is not the performance of work requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction. Although some first responders have college degrees, a specialized academic degree is not a standard prerequisite for employment.
http://www.dol.gov/esa/regs/compliance/whd/fairpay/fs17j_first_responders.htm And I stand by my position that the "us" against "them" mentality has been fostered by the BFEE, as if kool aid is served at the seminar and conferences that first responders attend. The fear of domestic terrorism is fanned and the officers are not given classes on their obligations to protect civil rights but on how to manage mobs, how to deal with terrorist strikes, how to wear the HAZMAT uniforms, etc.
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