NYPD: Officer got bogus OT

A HARLEM cop banked $358 in overtime for hours she spent at her precinct’s stationhouse where her husband was being processed on an assault arrest, authorities said Tuesday.

The NYPD wrapped up its departmental trial against Police Officer Shanturah Brathwaite, claiming the 12-year veteran put in for a day’s worth of overtime even though her supervisors told her to end her shift shortly after her husband, Russel (Big Russ) Smith, was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer. Charges were later dismissed

Brathwaite, 42, had agreed to do an overtime shift at the 32nd Precinct on May 5, 2015. But about two hours into her tour, her husband, a local barber and community leader, was locked up.

Department Beth Douglas Advocate said once Braithwaite heard her husband was arrested, she never returned to duty — though she put in for overtime as if she did.

Braithwaite claimed no one told her to “suit down and leave” until about an hour before the overtime tour was ending. The department advocate’s office is asking the NYPD to dock Braithwaite 25 vacation days and pay back the $358.