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Illinois police off-duty rules
3 agencies in Illinois publish rules on off-duty or secondary employment. Here is what each of them says.
Chicago Police Department
Municipal
No permit for rank-and-file officers, a 16-hour cap that applies only to supervisors, and an injury test that turns on why you acted.
11,542
Cook County Sheriff's Office
County
Next year's work declared by 1 December, a signed indemnity and $1m cover before any armed job, and no pay for court arising from it.
4,154swornauthorized · 2026
Illinois State Police
State agency
No off-duty peace officer work, a five-working-day silence rule, and military reserve service counted as secondary employment.
1,821
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If your agency is not here
These are the Illinois 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.
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