HONG KONG: Hong Kong police have earned an average of US$11,000 for each officer in overtime pay during the last six months of anti-government protests, with the total overtime bill coming to more than US$120mil, government figures showed on Friday (Dec 13).
Police have covered more than 900 protests since June and worked overtime only in"inevitable circumstances", the government's security bureau said in a written response to questions from pro-democracy lawmakers.
The security bureau said police overtime since the start of the turmoil has cost the government HK$950 million . The protest have regularly featured ranks of riot police firing volleys of tear gas or baton-charging protesters, often in central business or tourist areas. Police, in turn, have been targets of petrol bombs and other projectiles hurled by protesters, many of them masked.
A pro-Beijing lawmaker defended the overtime payments, saying police should be paid extra for extra work. China has said the police have shown restraint and that accusations of excessive force were false.
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