Providence Police clocked over $500,000 in overtime hours in the 10 days they investigated last month’s shooting at Brown University.
More than 7,250 overtime hours were logged between Dec.13 and Dec. 23 by patrol officers in cars and canvassing the campus and surrounding areas on foot along with detectives, Kristy Dos Reis, a spokesperson for the department, confirmed Friday.
Rhode Island State Police planned to meet with law enforcement officials from Providence, and other communities that assisted with the response to the shooting on Monday to craft a grant request for federal reimbursement, said Maj. John Allen, a State Police spokesperson.
Allen said overtime costs for 86 state troopers totaled $38,243 between the night of the shooting on Dec. 13 and Dec. 17, the day before the manhunt concluded.
Nearly 90 Providence officers worked overtime over the five days following the shooting, as local, state and federal authorities searched for the gunman suspected of killing two students and wounding nine others inside the Barus & Holley engineering building on the eastern edge of campus. On the night of Dec. 13, Dos Reis said 210 officers put in overtime.
Seven Providence Fire Department members worked a total of 35.5 overtime hours on Dec. 13 at a cost of $2,422.06, according to figures provided to Rhode Island Current.
Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a Portuguese national police suspect who committed the shooting along with the Dec. 15 homicide of an MIT professor, was found dead inside a Salem, New Hampshire, storage facility on Thursday, Dec. 18.
Local police coverage continued during the investigation through Dec. 23. Neves Valente’s body was found Dec. 18. By then, the FBI had taken over the investigation since the case expanded beyond Rhode Island.
On Friday, Dec. 19, 56 officers clocked in overtime hours. The number sharply dropped down to 10 on Saturday, Dec. 20, with only three officers seeking overtime by Dec. 23, the final day of data provided.
This story was originally published by the Rhode Island Current.
