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Week 4-Forum

Q After reading the assigned reading material for Week four (see announcement, syllabus or weekly lesson) please answer the following questions: 1) Give your opinion of police officers who moonlight as private security personnel. Are they ever officially off duty ? Explain your answer. Post to Forums and respond to at least two of your classmates postings. 2) Using the articles included in the reading describe in detail the salient points of a comprehensive off duty plan that a department should hold their officers to. Include the appropriate citations and references for these articles. Post to Forums and respond to at least two of your classmate's postings.

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When police officers take up any kind of off jobs, it simply means that they do work for people or would likely work for them in the near future. There are many police officials who perform different moonlighting works for the night clubs or may be for any other private entities. Police officer who take these kinds of gigs do typically perform their duties wearing their official police uniforms further blurring away the understanding of the public people especially of considering whether they are actually on duty or off duty only if that matter in any context ("Slate’s Use of Your Data", 2018).