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TimesLive reports that manpower shortages, flash floods and protests led to the Ekurhuleni metro police's overtime payments exceeding the budget by 75%.
The department reported to the metro’s finance committee on Friday that in 2015-16 R81m had been budgeted for overtime, but R148m was spent. Metro police's deputy chief Jabulani Mapiyeye said xenophobic attacks, flash floods and service protests meant more police were needed to control situations. The lack of adequately trained metro cops made extensive overtime unavoidable. Ekurhuleni had 1,790 metro police officers and they may work up to 40 hours overtime a month. Mayoral Committee Member Vivian Chauke commented: "We can't run a department on overtime. We must fill all the vacancies in the metro. Unfortunately, all funded vacancies are [frozen] until June."
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