Retirees to be called for police details

PAWTUCKET – Today’s police officer isn’t scrambling for extra hours working details at traffic and construction sites, according to city officials.

The Pawtucket City Council’s finance subcommittee in early August approved a new one-year contract with Pawtucket Lodge No. 4 of the Fraternal Order of Police that for the first time will allow officials to bring in retired police officers when details go unfilled, The Valley Breeze reported.

Tony Pires, director of administration and public safety, said the city is seeing the same “phenomenon” other communities have, with younger officers not wanting to take the details their predecessors once desired.

Retirees will earn about 83 percent of the detail pay that goes to a patrolman due to extra costs factored in, and the pay will not impact their pensions.

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Officials are prohibited by contract from reaching out to other police departments when local police details go unfilled. •

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