Let q be a power of a prime p, \(\mathbb {F}_q\) be the finite field with q elements, and \(\mathbb {F}_q[x_1,\ldots , x_n]\) be the ring of polynomials in n variables over \(\mathbb {F}_q\) . The construction and study of local permutation polynomials of \(\mathbb {F}_q[x_1,\ldots , x_n]\) is recently increasing interest among the experts. In this work, we study local permutation polynomials of maximum degree \(n(q-2)\) defined over the prime finite field \(\mathbb {F}_p\) . In particular, we explicitly construct families of such polynomials when \(p\ge 5\) and \(n \le p-1\) ; and for any q of the form \(q=p^{pr}\) when \(r\ge 1\) and \(p \ge 3\) .