HONG KONG - Hong Kong police have earned an average of US$11,000 for each officer in overtime pay during the last six months of anti-government protests, with the total overtime bill coming to more than US$120 million, government figures showed on Friday.
– Hong Kong police have earned an average of US$11,000 for each officer in overtime pay during the last six months of anti-government protests, with the total overtime bill coming to more than US$120 million, government figures showed on Friday.
Police have covered more than 900 protests since June and worked overtime only in “inevitable circumstances”, the government’s security bureau said in a written response to questions from pro-democracy lawmakers. The security bureau said police overtime since the start of the turmoil has cost the government HK$950 million . Some 11,000 police officers were paid overtime, which would mean an average of HK$86,363 per officer.
The protest have regularly featured ranks of riot police firing volleys of tear gas or baton-charging protesters, often in central business or tourist areas. Police in turn have been targets of petrol bombs and other projectiles hurled by protesters, many of them masked.
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