Home › Off-duty work › By agency › California
California police off-duty rules
4 agencies in California publish rules on off-duty or secondary employment. Here is what each of them says.
California Highway Patrol
State agency
No off-duty police work of any kind, a permit that expires on your performance appraisal, and a duration test that decides how far up the chain the request travels.
9,500sworn
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
County
A 24-hour weekly maximum, a decision inside ten business days, and no return to outside work after injury without a doctor's certificate.
9,800swornOrange County Sheriff-Coroner Department
County
No secondary employment may use the uniform, badge or authority of office, and no security services at all, paid or voluntary.
1,460sworn
San Jose Police Department
Municipal
A dedicated unit under the Chief, city-purchased liability cover at $2m, and no work at alcohol-led venues since 1997.
1,000swornIf your agency is not here
These are the California agencies whose own documents we have been able to obtain and read in full. An agency missing from this list usually means the policy is not published rather than that there is no policy - your own chain of command holds the current version.
The four pages in our off-duty section describe how this kind of work runs in general, whatever your agency.
Other states
Back to the map — every state and territory, and what is published in each.
Whatever your agency's rules turn out to be
The record is yours either way — the hours, the employer, the rate, the miles, and whether the money has landed.
Scan to install
