Three years after a city audit revealed rampant overtime at the Honolulu Police Department allowed some officers to increase their pay by more than $100,000, the number of officers filing more than 1,000 hours of overtime a year has increased by almost 500%.
More than 40 Honolulu police officers logged enough overtime last year to double their base salaries, according to HPD records obtained by Civil Beat.
Sgt. Darren Cachola, who retired last month after a turbulent two decades on the force, collected more than 2,400 overtime hours in his last year on the job. Cachola supervised DUI checkpoints that are now subject to a lawsuit claiming HPD officers arrested drivers with no alcohol in their systems…