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<\/p>\nNew records obtained by NBC 5 Investigates show Dallas police spent more than $6.5 million dollars on overtime during the FIFA World Cup and the recent Republican midterm convention.<\/p>\n
Now, the question is whether the federal government will pick up the entire tab or if Dallas taxpayers will have to cover some of the cost.<\/p>\n
For nearly two months this summer, Dallas hosted the world and police worked around the clock.<\/p>\n
Officers provided security at a fan festival at Dallas’ Fair Park and the tournament’s international broadcast center, and they operated motorcades, escorting team buses and visiting dignitaries.<\/p>\n
Now comes the bill.<\/p>\n
Through open records requests, NBC 5 Investigates obtained Dallas police overtime records showing that during the two World Cup months, the department spent a total of more than $14 million on overtime.<\/p>\n
The records show that’s about $6.6 million more than the same months last year.<\/p>\n
When NBC 5 Investigates questioned the department about those totals, a spokesman confirmed that about $6.1 million of that total was for World Cup related overtime.<\/p>\n
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A Dallas Police spokesman confirmed that about \\$6.1 million of the total overtime spending was for World Cup related overtime.<\/p>\n
City records obtained by NBC 5 Investigates suggest the motorcades were the biggest overtime expense.<\/p>\n
A spreadsheet shows the department’s traffic unit, which runs motorcycle escorts, racked up more than $1.1 million in overtime in June and July combined \u2014 more than any other police unit.<\/p>\n
The Dallas SWAT team came in a close second. That unit, often tasked with security and dignitary protection duties, also earned a little more than $1 million in overtime in June and July.<\/p>\n
But records obtained by NBC 5 Investigates also show just how dramatically the department slashed overtime spending once the last World Cup goal was scored.<\/p>\n
The records show DPD spent only about $2.4 million on overtime in the first 25 days of August. That’s less than half of what the records say the department spent on overtime in August of 2025.<\/p>\n
As NBC 5 Investigates previously reported, Dallas police Chief Daniel Comeaux said in August that he directed supervisors to scrutinize overtime spending as the department worked to close a budget gap, under pressure from City Hall. That came after the department said it overspent its overtime budget by almost $3 million in the last year.<\/p>\n
“We’re gonna really look at overtime and be financially responsible,” Comeaux said at the time in an interview with NBC 5 Investigates.<\/p>\n
Dallas Police told NBC 5 Investigates the department expects Dallas taxpayers will be paid back for World Cup overtime through a federal program for host cities.<\/p>\n
But the North Central Texas Council of Governments tells NBC 5 Investigates it’s a complex reimbursement process that takes time. The agency is helping local departments submit for reimbursement.<\/p>\n
On top of that, there are still questions about reimbursement for the Republican midterm convention held downtown in September.<\/p>\n
Dallas police tell NBC 5 Investigates that overtime bill topped $500,000.<\/p>\n
There was no guarantee the city would be paid back for the convention, and the department told NBC 5 Investigates it has no additional information on that right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New records obtained by NBC 5 Investigates show Dallas police spent more than $6.5 million dollars on overtime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,24698],"class_list":["post-460685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-nbc-5-investigates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}