An Internal Affairs investigation revealed that since 2008, Mosby Colbert has been routinely turning in overtime sheets to the District Commander that reflected several hours more than her allotted 40 per week. After the hours were approved, she would alter the time sheet to reflect a larger number before forwarding it to the payroll department.”(AlHajal, 2012). This incident is just one of many cases of police officers being investigated and indicted for time fraud. In order to explore the causes, effects, and solutions to time fraud it first must be established what is time fraud. Time fraud also refer to as time theft is, “when an employee accepts pay from their employer for work that they have not actually done, or for time they have not actually put into their work. Time theft is not always easy to detect and can come in many forms and many levels of severity.”(What is the Definition, 2010). There are several types of time fraud, time card/ time clock fraud, over-extended breaks, excessive personal time, and Internet time fraud. When investigating recent activity within the police department the most common forms of time fraud were time clock fraud and excessive personal time
An Internal Affairs investigation revealed that since 2008, Mosby Colbert has been routinely turning in overtime sheets to the District Commander that reflected several hours more than her allotted 40 per week. After the hours were approved, she would alter the time sheet to reflect a larger number before forwarding it to the payroll department.”(AlHajal, 2012). This incident is just one of many cases of police officers being investigated and indicted for time fraud. In order to explore the causes, effects, and solutions to time fraud it first must be established what is time fraud. Time fraud also refer to as time theft is, “when an employee accepts pay from their employer for work that they have not actually done, or for time they have not actually put into their work. Time theft is not always easy to detect and can come in many forms and many levels of severity.”(What is the Definition, 2010). There are several types of time fraud, time card/ time clock fraud, over-extended breaks, excessive personal time, and Internet time fraud. When investigating recent activity within the police department the most common forms of time fraud were time clock fraud and excessive personal time