01.01 A-C - Police Chief Application Process

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• Handling community complaints, including decisions whether to refer them to internal affairs for further investigation; -� • Preparing budgets and controlling expenditures; • Ensuring operational readiness through supervision and inspection of personnel, equipment and quarters; • Deciding how and where to allocate personnel; • Managing the distriburion of equipment; • Maintaining inventory of property and supplies; • Directing operations at a crime, fire or accident scene, including deciding whether additional personnel or equipment are needed. Employees who spend the majority of their time performing duties such as those listed above are more likely to be considered exempt. A police or fire supervisor who directs the work of assigned staff during his or her shift but is also expected to routinely respond to dispatch calls and primarily does work investigating crimes or fighting fires is probably not going to be considered exempt. However, a police or fire supervisor who primarily manages the department and performs administrative and office work and seldom does any work "on the street" fighting fires or investigating crime is likely to meet the qualifications to be considered "exempt." Small Police/Fire Departments The FLSA provides a complete overtime (but not minimum wage) exemption for any city employee who performs law enforcement work if the city has fewer than five employees who perform law enforcement � work during the workweek. Part-time employees and employees on leave are counted. This exemption holds true for fire protection work as well. This exemption applies on a workweek basis, so it is possible for a city to use the exemption some weeks and not others. Extended Workweek Exemption A city can establish a workweek for police and firefighters of anything between 7 and 28 days. The police or fire protection employee would then earn time and one-half overtime only for those hours that exceed the limits below: MaYimun: Hours Worked Be ore Overtin:e is Earned No. of Days in Workweek Hours of Fire Hours of Law Protection Enforcement 7 53 43 8 61 49 9 68 55 10 76 61 11 83 67 12 91 73 13 98 79 14 106 86 15 114 92 16 121 98 17 129 104 18 136 110 19 144 116 2 �