San Francisco businesses are allowed to hire uniformed SFPD officers to work as private security at an overtime pay rate. As the department claims that it’s short-staffed, here are the companies pulling the cops to work as private security the most.
The SF Board of Supervisors just approved tens of millions of dollars of extra SFPD overtime this week, well beyond what the department had originally budgeted for. And not for the first time either, with the department saying this is necessary because they are short-staffed.
But there is also a separate gravy train for police to pull those sweet time-and-a-half overtime dollars, working armed and in full uniform as private security, under a program known in police lexicon as 10B…