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Public Safety Off-Duty Scheduling & Compliance Software

PowerDetails is the specialized detail coordination engine trusted by hundreds of law enforcement and public safety agencies. Automate off-duty detail assignments, enforce fair union rules, and streamline employer billing through a platform built for public safety. 

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Trusted By Public Safety Agencies Nationwide

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Simplify Off-Duty Details from Job Creation to Payment

Details helps public safety agencies manage secondary employment assignments while enforcing department policies, fatigue management requirements, and administrative workflows. 

Instead of manually coordinating assignments, tracking hours, and generating invoices, agencies can automate these processes within a single system. With a unified on- and off-duty calendar, you have total operational visibility of your organization to reduce administrative burdens and improve wellness initiatives.

Features That Drive Real Results for Your Agency & Community

Automatically enforce your agency's limits for on- and off-duty hours, mandatory rest periods, and certification requirements before an officer can bid on a job.

Syncing on-duty rosters with off-duty schedules protects officer safety and minimizes agency liability by blocking overworking across both calendars.

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Eliminate favoritism and boost officer morale by automatically distributing details based on your chosen policies, whether tenure, first-come, first-served, or hours rotation.

PowerDetails screens the opportunity against your agency policy and preferences, instantly publishing the shifts and alerting qualifying personnel through a fair distribution grid.

Job Distribution

External vendors can log into their secure, limited portal view to independently request a staffing detail defining personnel counts, rates, location, dates, and billing preferences.

Sensitive fields stay secured, so vendors never see confidential internal rosters, personal schedules, or home addresses.

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Streamline communication and efficient scheduling by allowing personnel to instantly view open details, receive real-time notifications, and securely clock in or out from their phone.

Officers can log into their mobile self-service app, review open assignments, and bid on details matching their schedule availability.

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Ensure absolute presence accountability at job sites with automated perimeter alerts, while fully respecting officer privacy by verifying locations at the moment of the punch.

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Stop losing administrative revenue. Automated vendor surcharge calculators track and collect all of your program's security fees.

Replace slow, manual timesheet cross-referencing with automated, trigger-based invoicing that shortens billing cycles. Collect electronic ACH or credit card payments in advance, and streamline year-end 1099s or process W-2s through agency payroll.

When a shift finishes and personnel clock out, the system processes local administrative fees, generates an automated vendor invoice, and posts wage information straight to payroll.

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Details gives leadership full operational intelligence and audit readiness with real-time, customizable visual reporting on job requests, fill rates, and financial workflows.

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Details works as a direct extension of your public safety workforce platform to keep data accurate and eliminate duplicate data entry. 

Sync regular patrol rosters with PowerTime and off-duty shift details for a unified calendar view of on- and off-duty schedules. Pass approved off-duty wage files and billing parameters straight to your core payroll processing modules for fast, accurate check matching.

Unified Calendar

Enforce automated assignment rules, log overrides, and maintain policy guardrails for union and state audits. Details keeps a permanent, chronological history log of every shift assignment, coordinator override, invoice alteration, and financial transaction.

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Insulates your agency and the city from unexpected liabilities by providing up to $250,000 in incident-related protection tailored specifically to extra duty operations.

Deliver clean employee dashboards, self-service tabs, and mobile metrics that meet federal 508C digital accessibility standards.

Host your data on secure, resilient cloud architecture engineered specifically to satisfy data encryption and validation regulations.

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Trusted by Over 99,000 Users in the U.S. and Canada

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7.5M off-duty and overtime jobs scheduled

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65M off-duty and overtime hours recorded

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$1.3B off-duty and overtime payments invoiced

“Since we've transitioned [to Details], I feel like things are more accurate. Now, we can just text or email and 99% of our problems are fixed within an hour or less.”

  Sergeant Daniel Corbitt, Nassau County Sheriff's Office
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WHY POWERDMS?

Why Agencies Are Replacing Manual Off-Duty Processes

Many agencies still rely on spreadsheets, paper requests, email chains, or disconnected software systems to manage off-duty assignments. Common challenges include:

  • Limited visibility into officer fatigue and wellness
  • Manual scheduling conflicts
  • Time-consuming invoice generation
  • Uncollected program fees and lost administrative revenue
  • Inconsistent policy enforcement
  • Ensuring fair assignment distribution
  • Administrative drain on command staff

Details replaces manual paperwork and disconnected systems with a single platform built to save time, protect your budget, and keep your personnel safe.

Traditional Approach vs. PowerDMS Details

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Paper sign-up sheets that trigger favoritism and union grievances.

Automated Distribution: Job allocation based strictly on your agency’s rules: tenure, rotation, or hours caps.

Spreadsheets that fail to track combined on-duty and off-duty fatigue lines.

Proactive Guardrails: Automated blocks that evaluate total combined hours across a sliding 24-hour window.

Chasing businesses for unpaid fees via slow, manual paper invoices.

Integrated Vendor Portal: Secure portal that automatically generates invoices and processes electronic ACH/credit cards.

Fragmented software silos that force manual data reentry into accounting logs.

Ecosystem Sync: Direct connection passing approved wage allocations and billing files straight to payroll.

Confusing phone trees and callback loops trying to fill open shifts.

Instant Mobile Alerts: Automated text alerts and smartphone push notifications sent directly to personnel.

See Details in Action

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Common Questions About PowerDMS Details

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A public safety off-duty scheduling software system is a specialized workforce management platform built specifically around the complex union rules, collective bargaining parameters, and commercial billing workflows of law enforcement, corrections, fire, and EMS. Generic corporate calendars fail because they cannot calculate agency surcharges, handle fair rotation logic, or enforce strict fatigue guardrails.

The platform natively syncs your regular shift rosters with your extra-duty schedule. When an employee attempts to bid on an available off-duty assignment, the system calculates their total combined hours across a sliding 24-hour window and actively blocks the sign-up — or an administrative assignment — if it violates your local safety limit.

Public safety workforce tools like PowerDetails are designed for Chiefs, Sheriffs, off-duty coordinators, command staff, municipal payroll managers, and public safety personnel administrators who are burdened by manual spreadsheets, billing delays, or union favoritism grievances.

PowerDetails is designed around public sector transparency, civil service merit rules, and union collective bargaining complexity rather than private sector corporate sales models. It houses specialized capabilities like advanced rotation logic engines, automated agency surcharge calculators, and audit trails for compliance mandates.

PowerDetails integrates with PowerTime for one calendar view of on-duty shifts and off-duty details for a clean view of who is doing what, when, and where.

Full system configuration is achieved within a structured 7 week onboarding timeline managed by dedicated implementation consultants. This path guides your division through baseline setup, vendor profile configuration, custom notification building, and sandbox data verification tests prior to live launch.

PowerDetails uses a flexible, utilization-based pricing model tailored to your agency's budget regulations. Our most common options are:

  • The Employer-Funded Path ($0 Agency Cost): The software fee is covered entirely by the employer requesting the extra duty services. This allows you to modernize your system with zero impact on your local taxpayers.
  • The Agency-Funded Path (Monthly Billing): Your agency retains its local administrative fees and receives a predictable monthly invoice based strictly on the actual volume of off-duty wages processed through the platform.

The platform environment is hosted on secure, highly redundant Gov cloud architecture engineered to satisfy strict government information security policies. The platform undergoes continuous independent third-party audits for data protection and confidential personnel histories.

Yes. Details includes a secure external employer portal. Your partners receive limited dashboard privileges that allow them to log into the system independently to input their job details, review historical contract statements, and settle outstanding balances via credit card or ACH.

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Unify Your Off-Duty Scheduling and Recover Costs

Stop relying on manual spreadsheets and disconnected systems. Automate your shift distribution rules, streamline your billing, and lead with confidence.

Complete the form to request a demo and a PowerDMS expert will reach out to you to find a time that works with your schedule.