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Virginia police off-duty rules
6 agencies in Virginia publish rules on off-duty or secondary employment. Here is what each of them says.
Alexandria Police Department
Municipal
Work is split by whether police action is anticipated, fifteen minutes decides which payroll you are on, and the employer must agree to assist prosecution.
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Fairfax County Police Department
County
Bartered housing priced by the hour, a 16-hour rule that will not reset without eight hours' rest, and a scheduled court date counted as two hours.
1,390Fairfax County Sheriff's Office
County
Three separate hour caps keyed to the day you are on, a rank-blind minimum rate, and a check-in with another agency every time you work.
433swornauthorized · 2027Lexington Police Department
Municipal
Private duty is worked on duty and paid at the overtime rate, with a two-hour minimum and the department billing the vendor.
16Newport News Police Department
Municipal
The department bills the employer, court time from a detail is not the customer's bill, and squad staffing can veto the job.
452Virginia Beach Police Department
Municipal
A 68-hour week, 16 hours in any 24, app-based bidding, and a tiered procedure for dropping a shift.
711swornactive · 2025
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Also for Virginia: What Virginia agencies pay to start 38 agencies, each verified against the employer's own document.
If your agency is not here
These are the Virginia 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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Whatever your agency's rules turn out to be
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