Audit: MontCo police missing overtime records

Montgomery County police officers failed to submit required documentation with one-quarter of their requests for overtime pay — and of the records properly submitted, 20 percent were missing a supervisor’s signature, according to an independent audit. Police overtime — which is worth at least 1.5 times officers’ hourly compensation — accounts for roughly one-fourth of Montgomery’s total overtime expenses annually, costing county taxpayers roughly $10 million in fiscal 2010.

But the police department “is not consistently and appropriately reviewing and authorizing all overtime,” according to an audit prepared by Virginia accounting firm, Cherry, Bekaert & Holland.