CHP Officers Working Longer Days, Shorter Weeks

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CHP officers working longer days, shorter weeks

Some California Highway Patrol officers and sergeants began working new schedules this week.

CHP spokesperson Fran Clader tells KCRA 3 that since this past Monday, some officers have switched to three 12.5 hour days per week.

Clader says the idea is to reduce overtime expenses and improve quality of life for CHP employees. Before making the change, the agency commissioned a study to examine the benefits and drawbacks.

Officers in each CHP patrol area then voted on whether to make the schedule change. Officers had to vote at least 80 percent in favor for the change to be implemented. Clader says 80 of the state's more than 100 patrol areas approved the new schedules.

The new schedule does not apply to non-uniformed employees, managers at CHP headquarters, and some rural areas.

Officers working the new three day schedule will also work one extra day a month, so as to equal the total number of hours under the current work schedule.

 

[Big_Ears]

The officers sometimes work the last 6 hours of their day(or additional OT) by working "cozy" duty. This involves sitting in their patrol car in the beginning of the construction areas, with their light bars "lit up" in order to slow incoming traffic passing thru the Cone Zone. This gives the guys a break so that they don't become walking zombies due to working the those extra hours daily.

 

[PJaxx]

The officers sometimes work the last 6 hours of their day(or additional OT) by working "cozy" duty. This involves sitting in their patrol car in the beginning of the construction areas, with their light bars "lit up" in order to slow incoming traffic passing thru the Cone Zone.

I thought it was COZEEP duty rather than "cozy" - Construction Zone Enhanced Enforcement Program.

 

[Big_Ears]

PJaxx - You could be correct on that one. However, it sounds like "cozy" when stated over the air.

 

[KD6DSI]

More power to 'em. I worked 4-10s for 25 years at my last job. Now, at my retirement job, I work 4-7.5s (4 days-30 hrs a week)

Gotta love 3 day weekends. And 4 day holiday weekends... (and most road CHPs don't get a lot of holidays...)

 

[inigo88]

It sounds like "cozy," but it's definitely COZEEP and does stand for COnstruction Zone Enhanced Enforcement Program. See the CHP CAD glossary.

EDIT: Apparently there's also a MAZEEP - MAintenance Zone Enhanced Enforcement Program - but I've never heard it in the Bay Area.

-Inigo

 

[jrholm]

I've heard a callsign in the San Berdo area for "sandbag" as well as "cozeep" anybody know what that detail would be? maybe the MAZEEP?

 

[KMA367]

I've heard a callsign in the San Berdo area for "sandbag" as well as "cozeep" anybody know what that detail would be? maybe the MAZEEP?

Probably SANBAG Freeway Service Patrol:
http://www.sanbag.ca.gov/commuter/fsp.html
http://www.pe.com/localnews/desert/stories/PE_News_Local_P_patrol18.2263dbbe.html
http://www.pe.com/localnews/desert/stories/PE_News_Local_P_patrol18.2263dbbe.html

 

[wolter]

EDIT: Apparently there's also a MAZEEP - MAintenance Zone Enhanced Enforcement Program - but I've never heard it in the Bay Area.

-Inigo

Yes, there is a MAZEEP.

I used to work for Caltrans. We rarely used them when I was in the Bay Area. Maintenance work that would benefit from it is rarely needed. However, we used them frequently when I transferred to a different area.

It all depends on the supervisor, really. S/he only has to request it for safety reasons, and it would be granted.

But these CHP units really do come in handy when they are needed!

I recall one time having a moving lane closure when a citizen decided to take it upon himself to pull between our vehicles and run straight through our freshly-applied fog seal. CHP immediately pulled him over and give him a hefty ticket. Our superintendent used the personal info from his ticket to also bill him for the damage he caused.

Another time we had a closure on southbound 17 coming into Los Gatos. People were so upset that they were throwing things at us! I was hit by a glass bottle. MAZEEP arrested the guy.

 

[selgaran]

I recall one time having a moving lane closure when a citizen decided to take it upon himself to pull between our vehicles and run straight through our freshly-applied fog seal. CHP immediately pulled him over and give him a hefty ticket. Our superintendent used the personal info from his ticket to also bill him for the damage he caused.

Fog seal?

 

[trooperdude]

Fog seal?

Fog Seal
http://www.slurry.com/cont_fogseal.shtml