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HARTFORD – State Representative Martin Foncello (R-Brookfield), today voted in favor of a new State Police Union contract. The document was approved on a vote of 142-1.
The contract covers 888 employees over four years at a cost increase of $79,363,062. This includes $3,500 bonuses retroactive to July 1, 2022, and with a 2.5% wage increase for contract years 2022-2023, 2023-2024, and 2024-2025. There’s also a wage reopener for contract year 2025-2026. Under the contract, if a Trooper, Sergeant, or Master Sergeant has an overtime shift canceled within 24 hours of the shift, they are offered a minimum of 4 hours work for the shift.
Foncello has introduced a bill to restore governmental immunity for law enforcement officers.
“Connecticut should be sending the message to the men and women in uniform that if they go out and make a routine, reasonable arrest, using their training, the state has their back. The mix of laws hindering good police officers and rhetoric stoked to create public distrust in police has led to challenges among police agencies to hire qualified individuals,” said Foncello.
