A new internal audit finds that Fresno police officers continue to work second jobs on city time even after a previous internal audit brought such “moonlighting” problems to light.
A six month internal audit review found that some officers exceeded the maximum 16 hours of outside work nine times. One logged hours at a police academy while on injury leave and some overlapping schedules emerged during the review.
Still, the audit did show a big decrease in such activity since a 2018 internal audit found major problems in the Fresno Police Dept. with officers taking additional jobs.
“The audit shows a very significant decrease in the violations and we’re going to keep moving forward,” Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama told California news station KFSN. Balderrama says the new violations all resulted in appropriate discipline, and he’s convinced the right mechanisms are in place now to clean up problems. 