Jun 28th, 2009
Indianapolis Strip Clubs: Star review finds IMPD officers’ part-time gigs are poorly monitored
Permits for some officers list only a security company and a post office box, for instance, while other officers have 50 or more permits for work at security companies and scores of other addresses and business names — even some that no longer exist. It cannot be determined from the permits whether all of those permits are for the security company’s clients or other businesses where officers also work.
Without a better system to track off-duty employment, the burden falls on individual officers to police themselves.
It was the OmniSource scandal that compelled the department to revise its off-duty employment policy.
Under the old policy, Newman said, off-duty jobs typically were approved as long as the officers were not working at a topless bar or other off-limits establishment — locations vaguely identified as involving illegal or lewd activity and labor disputes.