Posted: 8/1/2014 5:38:12 PM EDT
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Hi Gang,
Any members of HTF on Dallas PD? Contemplating testing since my business has started to become more efficient. I was wondering if I could do a ride along to check it out. If you would prefer to PM or email me instead of replying publicly, please do. -Guy |
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Having served in small, medium sized, and large departments, I would suggest you pick a large city or sheriffs dept. Look at the big cities and counties and compare pay/benefits/retirement.
Dallas or FT Worth Austin Police San Antonio Police. Bexar Co So Houston Police. Harris Co So And the counties those cities are in are a good start. Go somewhere that has civil service if you can. Small PD/SO can be very political. Meaning you can be the golden child for a couple of years and get crossways 1 time and then your looking for a job. Nearly happened to me, but my lawyers were meaner than theirs. So take it from me, go to a LARGE agency. |
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Having served in small, medium sized, and large departments, I would suggest you pick a large city or sheriffs dept. Look at the big cities and counties and compare pay/benefits/retirement. Dallas or FT Worth Austin Police San Antonio Police. Bexar Co So Houston Police. Harris Co So And the counties those cities are in are a good start. Go somewhere that has civil service if you can. Small PD/SO can be very political. Meaning you can be the golden child for a couple of years and get crossways 1 time and then your looking for a job. Nearly happened to me, but my lawyers were meaner than theirs. So take it from me, go to a LARGE agency. great advice. Thank you! |
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Having served in small, medium sized, and large departments, I would suggest you pick a large city or sheriffs dept. Look at the big cities and counties and compare pay/benefits/retirement. Dallas or FT Worth Austin Police San Antonio Police. Bexar Co So Houston Police. Harris Co So And the counties those cities are in are a good start. Go somewhere that has civil service if you can. Small PD/SO can be very political. Meaning you can be the golden child for a couple of years and get crossways 1 time and then your looking for a job. Nearly happened to me, but my lawyers were meaner than theirs. So take it from me, go to a LARGE agency. This. I work for a agency of about 100 officers. It's political like crazy. Last year we had a group of Muslims complain we were racial profiling them. We treated them no different from other races/religion. What came out of the complaint? Mandatory Muslim sensitivity training for the entire department. 
Right now, I'm currently looking elsewhere....in a larger agency. |
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This. I work for a agency of about 100 officers. It's political like crazy. Last year we had a group of Muslims complain we were racial profiling them. We treated them no different from other races/religion. What came out of the complaint? Mandatory Muslim sensitivity training for the entire department.
Right now, I'm currently looking elsewhere....in a larger agency. Quoted:
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Having served in small, medium sized, and large departments, I would suggest you pick a large city or sheriffs dept. Look at the big cities and counties and compare pay/benefits/retirement. Dallas or FT Worth Austin Police San Antonio Police. Bexar Co So Houston Police. Harris Co So And the counties those cities are in are a good start. Go somewhere that has civil service if you can. Small PD/SO can be very political. Meaning you can be the golden child for a couple of years and get crossways 1 time and then your looking for a job. Nearly happened to me, but my lawyers were meaner than theirs. So take it from me, go to a LARGE agency. This. I work for a agency of about 100 officers. It's political like crazy. Last year we had a group of Muslims complain we were racial profiling them. We treated them no different from other races/religion. What came out of the complaint? Mandatory Muslim sensitivity training for the entire department.
Right now, I'm currently looking elsewhere....in a larger agency. It would be a shame if y'all were insensitive about that. I could think of so many ways they would regret complaining. Good thing I'm not a cop. |
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This. I work for a agency of about 100 officers. It's political like crazy. Last year we had a group of Muslims complain we were racial profiling them. We treated them no different from other races/religion. What came out of the complaint? Mandatory Muslim sensitivity training for the entire department.
Right now, I'm currently looking elsewhere....in a larger agency. You should've told me. I would've provided pulled pork sammiches for lunch for those in attendance. 
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This. I work for a agency of about 100 officers. It's political like crazy. Last year we had a group of Muslims complain we were racial profiling them. We treated them no different from other races/religion. What came out of the complaint? Mandatory Muslim sensitivity training for the entire department.
Right now, I'm currently looking elsewhere....in a larger agency. Quoted:
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Having served in small, medium sized, and large departments, I would suggest you pick a large city or sheriffs dept. Look at the big cities and counties and compare pay/benefits/retirement. Dallas or FT Worth Austin Police San Antonio Police. Bexar Co So Houston Police. Harris Co So And the counties those cities are in are a good start. Go somewhere that has civil service if you can. Small PD/SO can be very political. Meaning you can be the golden child for a couple of years and get crossways 1 time and then your looking for a job. Nearly happened to me, but my lawyers were meaner than theirs. So take it from me, go to a LARGE agency. This. I work for a agency of about 100 officers. It's political like crazy. Last year we had a group of Muslims complain we were racial profiling them. We treated them no different from other races/religion. What came out of the complaint? Mandatory Muslim sensitivity training for the entire department.
Right now, I'm currently looking elsewhere....in a larger agency. Yup. Go big. Better to be a number. Better to have civil service. My agency is low on people and we have 5500 last I heard. Agency sizes by # of officers, in my opinion: 1-99 Small 99-499 medium 500-999 large 1000+ massive. |
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Hi Gang, Any members of HTF on Dallas PD? Contemplating testing since my business has started to become more efficient. I was wondering if I could do a ride along to check it out. If you would prefer to PM or email me instead of replying publicly, please do. -Guy Retired from there two years ago. Look elsewhere 
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It all depends on what you are wanting to do. There are things you can do at the large agencies that you will never be able to do at the medium sized PDs. You want to be full time mounted? You want aviation or full time bikes? Those are mostly going to be larger agencies. If you want decent pay and usually better quality coworkers, go with the medium sized suburbs. Civil service is a dual edged sword. Good for keeping your job if you make someone mad, but it allows the retention of sub par coworkers/supervisors. In the DFW area, GP has probably the best morale. Good luck.
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Alot of younger officers are saying sayofuckingnara to DPD and moving on. Some of the burbs, Collin Co. SO, etc.,. are paying much better, with higher morale. Most Officers I know have summed-up DPD as pretty much a clusterfuck for some time now. Isn't the tactic to do the DPD police academy and then leave DPD ASAP? |
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Have several friends on DPD....
Very political department, that has ALOT of leadership issues.. They advertise on the radio and on billboards along the highways in Dallas for recruits They also go out of state and have lucrative relocating incentives as well for officers to transfer |
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I'm out of the loop these days, but at one time this was a good job to land. The bonus was getting both LE and FF Credentials.
DFW Airport Public Safety Officer |