Hong Kong’s police overtime bill tops $120 mln

Hong Kong police officers have racked up more than $120 million in overtime wages and other allowances as they work weekends and long hours to handle unprecedented pro-democracy protests in Asia’s main financial hub.

Report informs citing TASS that roughly 11,000 officers were paid more than HK$950 million ($122 million) for extra shifts between June and November, according to a document posted on Facebook by Cheng Chung-tai, a member of the city legislature’s Finance Committee. The Hong Kong Police Force’s total budget for wages, allowances and other operating costs in the current fiscal year was HK$20.2 billion ($2.6 billion), according to the document.