Investigators probe possible scheme involving a police detective and an officer who appear to have been summoned to court hundreds of times in about a year, making them eligible for significant overtime.
Chicago police and Cook County prosecutors are investigating a possible overtime-abuse scheme involving a detective and an officer who were notified to come to court hundreds of times in the span of about a year, making them eligible for significant amounts of extra pay, the Tribune has learned.
But the number of times the detective and officer were notified was extraordinarily high, especially given that many of the notifications were sent when Cook County courts were emerging from pandemic-related shutdowns and in-person court proceedings were relatively rare. A spokesperson for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office said in a statement that the Police Department’s bureau of internal affairs alerted prosecutors to the matter, and that prosecutors’ Law Enforcement Accountability Division is working with internal affairs on the investigation.
The detective has been on the force since August 2012. He was notified to come to court about 250 times from July 2020 to August 2021, according to data provided to the Tribune through a public records request.
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