Prohibited Off-Duty Employment*:
MHPD employees are prohibited from engaging in any secondary employment that would reflect unfavorably upon the Department or the employee, impair the operational efficiency of the Department, or adversely affect the Department.
- Employees are specifically prohibited from engaging in the following secondary employment:
- Employment that presents a real, potential, or apparent conflict of interest between the employee’s duties as a Department employee and their duties for the secondary employer.
- Employment at Alcohol Establishments are prohibited. For the purposes of this Directive, events such as festivals, sporting events, and concerts will not be considered alcohol establishments.
- Employment at establishments which sell merchandise of a sexual or pornographic nature as their primary source of revenue or that otherwise provides entertainment or services of a sexual nature; employment at topless bars, X-rated video or bookstores or adult entertainment establishments.
- Employment as a process server, bail bondsman, property re-possessor, bill collector, tower of vehicles, or any other employment in which police authority might tend to be used to collect money or merchandise for private or commercial purposes.
- Private investigations or any employment which require the employee to utilize MHPD information systems, files, records, or services as a condition of employment.
- Protection of management, employees, or property during a strike or labor dispute.
- Employment solicited in direct competition with private security firms.
- Employment that would hinder or interfere with the employee’s regular duties.
- Soliciting any law enforcement secondary employment from any person is prohibited. All requests for employment will be referred to the Secondary Employment Coordinator.
- Non-sworn employees are prohibited from performing any law enforcement related secondary employment.
*PLEASE NOTE: the above list is not an all-inclusive and questions regarding permitted activity should be forwarded to Off Duty Management.
