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Florida police off-duty rules
4 agencies in Florida publish rules on off-duty or secondary employment. Here is what each of them says.
Florida Highway Patrol
State agency
Approval through SharePoint, a 72-hour combined weekly cap, and a 40-mile limit on patrol-car use.
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Jacksonville Sheriff's Office
County
A monthly hour cap rather than a weekly one, bargained minimum rates, and an administrative fee split with the union's own foundation.
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Orlando Police Department
Municipal
A 72-hour week that lifts from October to January, city payroll with on-duty workers' compensation, and published vehicle rates.
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County
Bargained hourly rates with eleven premium days, a four-hour minimum, and closed permits that trade every other job for one.
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These are the Florida 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.
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