{"id":1630,"date":"2016-04-13T02:03:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T06:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2016-04-13T02:03:37","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T06:03:37","slug":"police-overtime-up-in-lavallette-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/04\/police-overtime-up-in-lavallette-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Overtime Up in Lavallette, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_371\" style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/police_lights.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-371\" class=\"size-full wp-image-371\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/police_lights.png\" alt=\"Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)\" width=\"756\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/police_lights.png 756w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/police_lights-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police Lights (Photo: Jason Rojas\/Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lavallette officials say they will work to reduce police overtime after a sharp rise compared to the same period one year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Overtime by the end of March was up to\u00a0254.5 hours, up 138.5 from last year, Councilwoman\u00a0Joanne Filippone said. On the year, OT is up to the tune of 387 hours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To date, we\u2019re up 387 overtime hours, which is somewhat understandable when I hear the explanation,&#8221; said Filippone, with the caveat that &#8220;we have to try to pull in the reigns if we can.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Filippone said\u00a0Police Chief Colin Grant explained to her that the overtime increase was due to the obligation to cover shifts for officers who were unavailable. One superior officer\u00a0was recovering from an on-the-job injury, a dispatcher was out to recover from surgery and several officers were assisting the borough move the department to its new space in the municipal building \u2013 specifically, handling numerous IT issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the officers was very instrumental with all the wiring and IT, moving from one space to another,&#8221; said\u00a0Filippone.<\/p>\n<p>Police overtime last year, officials say, was approximately $82,000.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/04\/police-overtime-up-in-lavallette-officials-say\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lavallette officials say they will work to reduce police overtime after a sharp rise compared to the same period one year ago&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,3,2],"tags":[29,457,458,456],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-lavallette-government","category-lavallette","tag-lavallette-nj-news","tag-lavallette-police","tag-overtime","tag-police-department"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/police_lights.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-qi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}