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Pennsylvania police off-duty rules
2 agencies in Pennsylvania publish rules on off-duty or secondary employment. Here is what each of them says.
Pennsylvania State Police
State agency
No law enforcement or security work, a four-hour limit before a shift, and a thirty-day clock that approves a request by default.
4,634
Philadelphia Police Department
Municipal
Private security and patrol work prohibited, outside work capped at 32 hours, and approval through six levels of command.
5,065
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If your agency is not here
These are the Pennsylvania 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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