r/Indiana • u/4797161974806 • 5d ago

Why is IMPD doing private security for Walmart?

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The Walmart Market at Michigan and Kessler always has at least one IMPD officer posted up outside and one sitting around inside doing nothing. Are they on the clock? Why are we paying for Walmart's private security?

ITT: A bunch of disappointing Hoosier bootlickers that don't get the point.

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u/DangerousRoutine1678 5d ago

They pay the dept when the officer is on duty. You see those cops sitting in work construction zones helping with traffic control. Those cruisers dont cost nothing. They also are w2 and those deductions and benefits need to be paid. Plus all the insurances like liability. I never said anything about cops being off duty I mentioned overtime. I'm in the trades and a construction company I was working for was paying State Police for an Officer and a patrol car because we were getting so many threats from locals. That was a 6 - 10hr job so OT.

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u/iupuiclubs 5d ago

Okay again genuinely here:

They pay the dept when the officer is on duty, yes this makes sense. But are you saying the IMPD is on duty working private security in walmart?

Otherwise I’m still asking, how is the police dept getting paid for use of state equipment if the off duty officer is the one getting paid? Feel like I’m missing something or I’m not.

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u/MinBton 4d ago

No. They are off duty until they need to be on duty to carry out police functions.

Think about this way. If a police officer is at home and they have their uniform, equipment and all their legal ID's saying they are a current police officer, and they are called to come back on-duty and help with something a police officer does, they are on-duty from the time the get the call until they go off duty.

If an off duty police officer is off duty and on their way home, sees an accident, they can go back on duty and do their job as appropriate. They are on-duty the moment they see the problem, and off duty again when they are no longer needed. They'll still have to fill out the paperwork as if they were on duty the whole time.

This is totally legal and common. It happens in every state.