Hoping to continue the dramatic downturn in Big Apple crime, the NYPD has lifted the cap on overtime for narcotics cops.
Narcs will now be allowed to earn 65 hours of OT a month, compared with 45 in the last three months of the year.
The new cap went into effect Wednesday, department sources said.
More OT means more arrests, and getting more bad guys off the street means a continuation of the trend that saw murders drop from 596 in 2006 to 494 last year, the sources said. Last year was the first time the city recorded fewer than 500 murders since reliable statistics became available 44 years ago.
The drop in the number of murders was part of an overall crime decline of 6.3 percent.
Department sources noted that Mayor Bloomberg, supposedly pondering an independent run for the presidency, has been crowing about the 500 murders, and no police executive would like to have to tell Hizzoner that crime has risen.
Another reason for lifting the OT cap is that, because of the low starting pay, the department has 2,000 fewer cops than budgeted by the city. Thus, there is a need for more overtime for those on the force.
In August, the new patrol chief, Robert Giannelli, ordered that special OT money earmarked for cops in violence-prone precincts be given to "aggressive" cops rather than "do-nothing" officers.
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