Total overtime payments for force 67/2024

FOI Reference: 67/2024

Request:

• The total amount of overtime pay that was paid out by your force to its police officers.
• Please state the total amount of overtime pay received in each year for the officer who received the most in overtime pay. Please state if the officer was a constable or a sergeant and in which department they worked.

(Note the answer should give the rank of the officer (constable) and just his/her total annual overtime pay remembering to EXCLUDE other types of pay)

Response 1:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.

2020/21 = £2,725,518.56

2021/22 = £3,279,165.51

2022/23 = £3,540,836.00

Please note: that I have included the following elements as being classed as Overtime:

• Bank Holiday
• Overtime (1.333)
• Overtime Rest Day (1.5)
• Additional Hours

I have not included Unsocial Hours or On-Call as part of “Overtime” as these are ad-hoc allowances and not payments for overtime.

Response 2:

I can confirm that Dyfed-Powys Police does hold the information requested, as outlined below.

2020/21 = £17,342.02 (Constable – CID)

2021/22 = £15,262.38 (Constable & Sergeant – Wales Extreme and Counter Terrorism Unit (WECTU)) (the officer was in two ranks within the financial year)

2022/23 = £19,645.88 (Constable – Wales Extreme and Counter Terrorism Unit (WECTU))

It should be noted that as a result of the systems adopted by Dyfed-Powys Police in relation to the recording of such information that the information released may or may not be accurate.

(This is a response under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and disclosed on 16/02/2024)