Massachusetts State Police will hire the prominent firm Ernst & Young to audit the department’s payroll policies and other protocols in the wake of an overtime fraud scandal involving dozens of troopers and retired workers.
The agency announced Monday it has signed a contract with the firm to independently assess the department’s “policies, protocols, internal controls and record management systems,” to bring them “into line with best practices in similar organizations,” State Police said in a statement.
A key area of focus for Ernst & Young will be how the state’s largest law enforcement agency manages and monitors employee earnings and benefits, including regular, overtime, and detail pay as well as employee leave, the agency said.
“We are substantively increasing the operational and fiscal oversight of this agency to increase efficiency and accountability to the public,” State Police Colonel Kerry Gilpin said in a statement.
The move fulfills a promise Gilpin and Governor Charlie…
