The San Francisco Police Department decided on its own to violate the rules limiting public employee overtime, the Board of Supes learned Tuesday.
The supes were voting on a measure to reallocate more than $80 million from salaries to overtime, and to approve more than $5 million in reserves to bolster that OT spending.
The Budget and Appropriations Committee, after a contentious hearing, passed the measure to the full board without recommendation.
At that hearing, some of the supes questioned why SFPD was allowing officers to work as private rent-a-cops, on OT pay, for a lot more than the 500 annual hours that the city currents sets as the limit on extra work…