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Article: The new off duty.(FIREARMS TACTICS)
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- Law Enforcement Technology
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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In February 2006, Law Enforcement Technology published "12 rules for off-duty conduct," a primer on the transition between on-duty and off-duty.
While this article was written three years ago, the basic concepts were appropriate 50 years ago and likely will be appropriate 50 years hence. However, some things have changed. Many agencies have lost their tax base and are left to perform the same services with fewer employees and less infrastructure. Furthermore, we are quickly becoming a society that looks for the government to intervene and resolve problems, which only a few years ago most would have addressed themselves.
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