Off-duty rules, agency by agency

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Can you take the patrol car? — every agency here side by side on vehicles: whether the department's car may go to the job, who pays for it, and what it costs.

By state

Every state and territory is listed, with federal agencies below them. A blue square means there is a page — the number is how many agencies it covers. Pick a state to see them.

Where this comes from

Two kinds of document, and the useful pages need both. A collective agreement — called a memorandum of understanding in some states — sets terms that were bargained: minimum hours on a detail, how rates are arrived at, what coverage applies. A policy manual sets procedure: who approves, what is prohibited, what happens when the rules are broken.

Where an agency has neither, sometimes the answer sits in state law instead. Washington puts off-duty employment for its troopers directly into statute.

What these pages are not

They report what a document says, on the date we read it. They do not describe how anything works in practice, they are not advice, and they cannot account for a policy revised or an agreement renegotiated since. Your own agency's current documents govern — and where what you read here does not match what you have been told, the documents win and we would like to know.

Missing an agency?

This grows one agency at a time, because each page means reading the actual documents rather than guessing from a recruiting page. If yours is not here, or something on a page has gone out of date, the support page reaches us.