ponsors pay the costs of such police services directly to the police departments. The police officers delivering such services are paid by the police department at overtime rates. As the special event duty is performed in addition to regular shifts, this form of special event policing is effectively a quasi-internal moonlighting situation.
In other instances, major civic parades and other civic events require police departments to provide special policing services (Moore, 1995, pp. 9-11). Typically, such services are delivered by police officers performing the work in addition to their regular shifts. While the police officers involved in the delivery of the extra policing services are paid at overtime rates, the police department typically is not reimbursed by the governing jurisdiction (Shur, 1995, pp. 1-8). This type of overtime work by police officers is effectively an internal moonlighting situation.
Moonlighting by police officers, thus, is a complex phenomenon. Regardless of the character of the moonlighting situation, however, extra-shift work holds the potential to affect police
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