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Texas police off-duty rules
5 agencies in Texas publish rules on off-duty or secondary employment. Here is what each of them says.
Dallas Police Department
Municipal
Three kinds of second job, 16 hours in any rolling 24, and a monthly audit of every officer by their own supervisor.
3,323swornHouston Police Department
Municipal
A permit number before every job, an unauthorized location list, club certification for bar work, and staffing ratios by rank.
5,364swornPlano Police Department
Municipal
A 16-hour day, no house-rule enforcement, sobriety training required for bar work, and rates reviewed by a committee of officers.
—swornSan Antonio Police Department
Municipal
Hour caps keyed to whether you worked that week and that day, a fifteen-minute tardiness clock, and $1m/$2m cover naming the City for bar work.
2,350sworn
University of Texas System Police
University
Approval is presumed but cannot be appealed, the alcohol ban includes the parking lot, and permission expires every 31 August.
—swornIf your agency is not here
These are the Texas 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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