Police in Fort Worth, Texas are hopping mad, saying problems with a recently implemented Oracle PeopleSoft payroll system has been botching their paychecks, leaving them shortchanged or even without a pay at all.

"It is unacceptable that some officers have failed to receive a check, [and] that so many more have not been fully paid since going online 8 wks ago," the Fort Worth Police Officers Association said in a Dec. 12 posting on its . "We will continue to fight & try to find a way to FORCE the city to do the right thing."

The system wasn't set up to handle the odd hours and shifts police officers work, a union official .

The city blamed human error for the problems, according to the paper.