Mass. State Police relieves four more members of duty in overtime pay probe

The Massachusetts State Police Department temporarily relieved four department members of duty in their ongoing overtime pay probe.

The department announced the move on Monday, saying they "identified discrepancies between overtime pay earned and actual hours worked for four additional Department members."

In a release, the department said the discrepancies were from traffic enforcement overtime shifts when the officers were apart of Troop E.

The move brings the number of department members in the overtime pay scandal to 46.

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“Today’s actions are the result of our continued review of records and data indicative of whether Department members were present and working overtime shifts for which they were paid,” Colonel Kerry A. Gilpin, superintendent of the Massachusetts State Police, said. “Our commitment to the public, and to the vast majority of Troopers who conduct themselves with integrity and dedication to duty every day, is to identify anyone who has violated their oath, and we continue to do just that.”

The four department members will have internal hearings scheduled to figure out what their duty status will be while investigations are completed.

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