Alexander defends police overtime spending

Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty Min­is­ter Roger Alexan­der is de­fend­ing po­lice over­time spend­ing, say­ing the Po­lice Ser­vice was not giv­en enough of­fi­cers and re­sources in the past to prop­er­ly car­ry out its du­ties.

He al­so re­ject­ed claims about over­time pay­ments to se­nior po­lice of­fi­cers, in­sist­ing that first di­vi­sion of­fi­cers do not work over­time.

Alexan­der was speak­ing to re­porters at a Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) event at The Canopies at Cau­ra Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment in Tu­na­puna yes­ter­day.