Volunteering Time for Convalescing Officers

Question 1

Officers may be considered to receive volunteered time only if all of the following are true:

Answer 1

Recipient has completed the probationary police officer period.

Recipient is going to be absent because the recipient is temporarily disabled by an injury or illness.

Doctor’s note accompanies the request for volunteered time

Question 2

Officers must be ______ in order to volunteer time.

Officers volunteering time while on approved leave shall perform that work ___________________.

Answer 2

off duty

in their own division, during their normal duty hours.

Question 3

Officers volunteering on their regular day off or during non-duty hours shall ______________ unless divisional hours preclude such arrangements.

Volunteering officers assigned to divisions with hours that preclude in house work shall ______________.

The volunteering officer shall then report to the ________________.

Answer 3

coordinate with their supervisors to schedule voluntary hours in their own division

coordinate their voluntary hours with the shift supervisor in the recipient officer’s division.

recipient officer’s division for an appropriate assignment.

Question 4

All officers shall notify ___________ and ________ shall be performed prior to reporting to volunteer time.

Answer 4

their immediate supervisor of their intent to volunteer, the location the work