Exclusive | Loophole allowed top NYPD official to reap tens of thousands in OT despite department rules barring it

A top NYPD official quietly pocketed tens of thousands of dollars in overtime pay last year — despite department rules barring managers from collecting such compensation, The Post has learned.Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry — an NYPD liaison to City Hall — made $60,000 more than the department’s top cop in 2023, thanks in part to a payroll loophole that allowed him to reap time and a half.“Welcome to Mayor [Eric] Adams’ NYPD,” one source quipped of how Daughtry was apparently allowed to game the system.“While the lower ranks have their overtime scrutinized down to the minute, Kaz parades around and abuses the very system he claimed to be fixing.”The NYPD’s Administrative Guide bars manager-level employees from being paid beyond their 80-hour workweek.But after being promoted from first-rank detective to an assistant commissioner role last July, Daughtry continued to put in for OT.His paystub for the final full period of last year shows he logged nearly 80 extra hours between Dec.9-22 — racking up just under $15,000 in bonus cash.He even put in for bonus pay for working the night shift — an added perk usually reserved for rank-and-file cops forced to pull one of the most undesirable shifts — for an added $1,000.“He made what?!” fumed one former NYPD chief while reviewing the paystub, which The Post obtained via the Freedom of Information Law.“No one should be making overtime as an executive,” the former chief said, echoing the sentiment of more than a half dozen police sources who were appalled by the extra pay.Uniformed cops often point to the pistol-packing civilian official as epitomizing a troubled culture at the NYPD under the Adams administration — where cowboy antics and crony connections seem to carry more weight than accomplishments.“The fact that a man who never supervised anyone in his entire career is now bringing in more money than the police commissioner is laughable irony,” the first source railed...