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Wisconsin police off-duty rules
3 agencies in Wisconsin publish rules on off-duty or secondary employment. Here is what each of them says.
Madison Police Department
Municipal
One form reviewed at four levels ending with the Chief, no weekly ceiling, an annual report each January, and a flat bar on policing for anyone else.
514Milwaukee Police Department
Municipal
Three categories split by who contracts the work, 32 hours a fortnight but never more than 20 in a week, approval that lasts two years, and cancellation penalties measured in weeks off the list.
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Wisconsin State Patrol
State agency
Ten categories presumed to be conflicts and refused unless the trooper proves otherwise, a crash-reconstruction exception with five conditions, and approvals that all expire on the same December date across the whole division.
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If your agency is not here
These are the Wisconsin 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
The record is yours either way — the hours, the employer, the rate, the miles, and whether the money has landed.
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