Overtime Costs

1. Total annual cost of overtime
2. Total budgeted annual cost of overtime
3. Total annual number of overtime hours worked
4. Annual total of overtime pay broken down by officers and staff
5. Annual total of overtime hours worked broken down by officers and staff
6. Annual total of overtime pay for officers broken down by officer rank
7. Annual total of overtime hours worked for officers broken down by officer rank
8. Annual total of overtime pay for staff broken down by salary band
9. Annual total of overtime hours worked for staff broken down by salary band

In accordance with section 1 (1) (b) of the Act our response is provided below;

Questions 1, 2 and 4

Questions 3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9

To obtain this information would require a manual search of each overtime claim form that has been submitted each month for each member of staff at all levels including Police Officers and Police Staff which would be a considerable number of forms, therefore it is estimated that this would exceed the appropriate limit.

The appropriate limit is defined in the Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004, which is covered by statutory Instrument Number 3244 of 2004. Furthermore, section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 allows a public authority to refuse to respond to a request for information where the cost of compliance would exceed the appropriate limit as defined by the above mentioned regulations.