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Originally Posted by dreamingat30fps
Do you normally keep your police car as your personal vehicle? We recently moved and noticed one house has a police SUV parked out front pretty much all day every day. I have only ever noticed the car not there later at night so my guess is they work the night shift or something. I just find it odd that the car sits there all day not being used. Is that normal?
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I’m not in a special bureau, so I don’t have a take-home car. Whether you have a take-home unit or not varies from department to department, and depends on resources. We’re way too large to offer that benefit, but smaller departments do often provide take-home units. I’ve noticed the Nevada officers take their cars home; the units are always parked in their residential driveways. You have to remember that we don’t work 8am-5pm, 5 days a week. Many/most departments are on 3-12’s or 4-10’s (…
or might offer a flex schedule), so the car could sit there for 3-4 days without being moved. Our coming’s and going’s are unconventional. My normal schedule is a 4-10 set up; fixed days off. I work at least 6 hours of OT a day, so usually I’m at work from 1400 hours to 0600 hours, causing my days to really overlap. This week, alone, I’ve worked 16, 16, 16, 18…and today will probably be 5. I leave for Hawaii tomorrow morning, so I’m only working a half day and no OT.