Staggering Overtime Hours

The 143 dispatchers at the Las Vegas (Nev.) police comm center are typically working 877 hours of overtime each week, in order to cover 83 unfilled positions. The dispatchers normally work 42-1/4 hours a week, and are required to work at least 2-1/4 hours additional. But apparently lots of them are working even longer hours to maintain their performance goal of answering 90 percent of the incoming 911 calls within 10 seconds. Read more about their plight here.