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===Volunteers and auxiliary===
Police services often include [[Part-time job|part-time]] or [[Volunteering|volunteer]] officers, some of whom have other jobs outside policing. These may be paid positions or entirely volunteer. These are known by a variety of names, such as reserves, [[auxiliary police]] or [[special constables]].

Other volunteer organizations work with the police and perform some of their duties. Groups in the U.S. including the [[Retired and Senior Volunteer Program]], [[Community Emergency Response Team]], and the [[Boy Scouts of America|Boy Scouts]] [[Law Enforcement Exploring|Police Explorers]] provide training, traffic and crowd control, disaster response, and other policing duties. In the U.S., the [[Volunteers in Police Service]] program assists over 200,000 volunteers in almost 2,000 programs.<ref>[https://www.bja.gov/publications/iacp_vips_resourceguide.pdf Volunteer Programs – enhancing Public safety by leveraging resources] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170131181229/https://www.bja.gov/publications/iacp_vips_resourceguide.pdf |date=31 January 2017 }}, Bureau of Justice Assistance, U.S. Department of Justice</ref> Volunteers may also work on the support staff. Examples of these schemes are [[Volunteers in Police Service]] in the US, [[Police Support Volunteers]] in the UK and [[Police Service (Volunteer Police) Amendment Act 1992|Volunteers in Policing]] in New South Wales.