FALL RIVER — The Fall River Police Department has more than $3.2 million in unfunded liability in police officers' comp time, due to years of collective bargaining agreements and past practice obligations — often during some of the city's fiscally leanest times.
And according to a recently completed outside audit by a Boston-based police consulting firm, nearly $1.48 million accounts for time owed to police personnel that exceeds a federally mandated cap of 480 hours of accumulated comp time per officer.
Those findings were the focus of a report completed and submitted to Mayor Paul Coogan and Fall River Police Chief Jeffrey Cardoza last month. It will be presented to the City Council on June 22, and the report was authored by The Edward Davis Company, owned by former Boston police commissioner by the same name.