Duty officer

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Duty officer" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

A duty officer or officer of the day is worker assigned a position on a regularly rotational basis. While on duty, duty officers attend to administrative tasks and incidents that require attention regardless of the time of day, in addition to the officer's normal duties. A duty officer is typically assigned to work for a period of time such as 24 to 48 hours, after which they will be relieved by the next duty officer listed on a roster. The outgoing duty officer will turn over relevant data and documentation to the incoming duty officer about the previous day's happenings before returning to their normal duties or resting.