There is grumbling in the lower ranks of the police tonight about working at what are called "extraneous duties" during Christmas for which they have not been paid - which the police have already been paid by the various municipalities. .
For example, in Belmopan reports are that $4,000 was paid by the City Council for 30+ officers and they have yet to collect.
When we asked the compol about this today, he told us that it takes a while for them to process the payout, he explained why.
Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police
"Police officers work extraneous duties in September, Christmas and New Year's and Easter holidays. How it works is that when you work extraneous for September for example it would have to go through my office to the ministry and then to the ministry of finance for approval. We normally do our best to have it ready that they can get it before the Christmas. Unfortunately this year that did not happen it has been approved by ministry of finance about a month or so ago I received it and I give it to commander of operations who normally put together the list and outline how much each officer will be getting. When the commander of operations is finished with it, it then goes to our accounts section and then from our accounts section it then goes to treasury. Unfortunately the treasury was short of staff and they were not able to input the names of the officers and the amount they were to collect in the system so that they could have gotten in in December and so that did not occur. However we have been assured by treasury that the officers are going to get their extraneous in January so they are going to get paid and so every officer who works extraneous duty gets paid there is absolutely no situation or circumstance where an officer is not going to be paid unless the officer did not report himself on or off duty then yes that is going to create some issue because you have to have proof that the officer did in fact work hence the reason we told our officers whenever you show up for extraneous duties make sure you document yourself in the diary that you report on duty and you also document yourself when you report off duty. So for any officer to be saying what they have said to you they are being disingenuous."
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