Section 6-A301. PROHIBITIONS REGARDING OUTSIDE EMPLOYMENT

 

301.1The following types of employment are prohibited inside the jurisdictional boundaries of the District of Columbia but may be engaged in if authorized in other jurisdictions:

 

(a)Employment as sightseeing or in pawn shops; and

 

(b)Employment as a bill collector, repossessor or collection agent of any kind.

 

301.2The following types of outside employment are prohibited in any jurisdiction:

 

(a)Employment for any business or in any capacity over which the Metropolitan Police Department exercises a special supervisory, regulatory, or enforcement function;

 

(b)Employment as a private investigator or private detective, civil process server, unarmed guard or to enforce "house rules" of establishments which sell alcoholic beverages by the drink, pursuant to Section 2, subsection 2.5:2, subpart (h), D.C. Law 4-132;

 

(c)Employment or the acceptance of any gift where such action will create a conflict of interest which would constitute a violation of section 1802 of the District of Columbia Government Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act of 1978 or regulations issued pursuant to that section, Section 2, subsection 2.5:2, subpart (a), D.C. Law 4-132;

 

(d)Employment in a position which would require access to confidential police records, files, correspondence, or other information not otherwise available to the general public, Section 2, subsection 2.5:2, subpart (b), D.C. Law 4-132;

 

(e)Employment in a capacity which would directly or indirectly interfere with the proper and efficient performance of police duties or as otherwise prohibited by the Metropolitan Police Department Manual;

 

(f)Employment by an agency of the District of Columbia Government, unless that agency first requests and receives permission from the District of Columbia Office of Personnel. Members shall be prepared to indicate that this requirement has been met when submitting their requests for outside employment by an agency of the District of Columbia; and

 

(g)Employment by an agency of the United States Government, or an agency of any foreign government, or employment in or for any embassy, chancellery or foreign delegation.

 

301.3A member shall not accept police-related outside employment in other jurisdictions.

 

301.4REPEALED

 

301.5A member shall not accept employment with any person, firm, or corporation whose primary business is providing private security guards (officers) or special police officers to commercial establishments or other individuals.

 

301.6A member shall not engage in the business of providing private guards (officers) or special police officers to commercial establishments or other individuals within the District of Columbia, nor shall members directly or indirectly engage in the business of providing off-duty services of other members of the Department for police-related activities to those individuals or commercial establishments.

 

301.7A member of the rank of inspector and above shall not accept police-related outside employment or outside employment which consists of supervising other members of the Department in such outside employment.

 

301.8A member of the rank of lieutenant or captain shall only accept police-related outside employment when such employment is in a supervisory capacity which reflects his or her Department rank.

 

301.9A member of the rank of sergeant may accept police-related outside employment in a non-supervisory role, unless such employment is in conjunction with the police- related outside employment of other non-supervisory member(s) (officers, detectives, technicians, and for purposes of these rules, desk sergeants). In the latter instance, a sergeant shall only accept police-related outside employment in a supervisory capacity which reflects his or her Department rank.

 

301.10A non-supervisory member (officer, detective, technician, and for purposes of these rules, desk sergeant) shall not accept police-related outside employment when such employment places him or her in a supervisory role in relation to other members of the Department engaged in police-related outside employment. No member shall be permitted to engage in police-related outside employment in his or her regularly assigned patrol beat area.

 

301.11Members shall not accept police-related outside employment which is conditioned upon any requirement which would in any way interfere with the proper use and/or wearing of issued uniforms and equipment. Permission will not be granted to wear uniforms other than Department issue.

 

301.12A specific waiver shall be obtained to work in plainclothes. Those waivers shall be at the discretion of the Chief of Police or his or her designee, the Administrative Services Officer, as appropriate.

 

authority

An Act approved February 28, 1901, as amended by An Act approved June 8, 1906, 34 Stat. 222, and para. 95 of § 402 of Reorganization Plan No.3 of D.C. Official Code, Title 1 Appendix, at 154 (1973), § 2.5:2(f) of a Regulation Enacting the Police Manual for the District of Columbia, Regulation No. 72·2 as added by § 2 of the Police Officers Outside Employment Act of 1982, D.C. Law 4-132, 29 DCR 2450 (June 11,1982), and further amended by the Omnibus Police Reform Amendment Act of 2000, effective October 04, 2000, D.C. Law 13-160, as added by Title 3 , § 303 of the Act.

source

Final Rulemaking published at 30 DCR 539 (February 4, 1983), Final Rulemaking published at 32 DCR 7195 (December 6, 1985) and further amended by (An Act) Omnibus Police Reform Amendment Act of 2000, effective October 04, 2000, D.C. Law 13-160, published at 47 DCR 4619, (June 02, 2000).