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If you’ve ever been to a nightclub and wondered what those giant security dudes do during the daylight hours, it’s a pretty good chance that they’re the same cops tasked to protect and serve your community. Despite the dangers of the job, police officers are still government employees, and often rely on second jobs to make ends meet. In Alaska, the all-cash recreational cannabis industry has created a host of new security and armed transport jobs, but a new directive from the state’s police oversight council is making sure that cops won’t see any greenbacks from the state’s green rush.
According to the Alaska Dispatch News, a decision from the Alaska Police Standards Council said that police officers working in the cannabis industry is “incompatible with the law enforcement profession.”
The decision arose after the Council’s executive director Bob Griffiths heard rumors that cops were looking into second jobs in the cannabis industry.
“We kind of got word that there might be individuals that were considering that as an option for a second career, so to speak,” Griffiths told the Dispatch. “So we thought it’d be a good idea to be proactive.”
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