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Posted: 7/27/2009 3:56:00 PM EDT
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Wow thats awful. I dont know how anyone can be expected to put their life on the line for 1600 a month. Even a PVT makes more than that and he gets free housing and food to boot.
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Posted: 7/27/2009 4:00:49 PM EDT
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I know, do they get second jobs. Mabe that is whay the turn over is so great. He was even telling me the amount as we only pay this much.
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Posted: 7/27/2009 4:01:05 PM EDT
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Looks like typical small town Cop pay to me. I don't know where that is but when you have so many people doing the job for free(reserves), it shouldn't be all that hard to fill those positions.
Around here the small town PD turnover is around 1000%   A guy you see in one town on the way to work in the morning may be working in another town by the time you head home. Seems to be that even in this, you get what you pay for.
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Posted: 7/27/2009 4:03:40 PM EDT
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That is a real shame, and these people get shot at.
Where are our priorities/ |
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Posted: 7/27/2009 4:13:36 PM EDT
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I dont think our priorities are the ones that are misdirected. Its the county and cities that are all fubared.
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Posted: 7/27/2009 6:14:44 PM EDT
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my new son in law was a local town cop, probably making about $1600 a month. Now he's a deputy sheriff.
A pay raise joining the sheriff's department I'm sure.....but I'm scared to ask how much of a raise. 
I recall making about $700 a month in the early 1990's, and was getting paid more than some of the guy's!
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Posted: 7/28/2009 6:35:43 PM EDT
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I'm looking for greener pastures, but Canton won't cut it. I may have to go to N.M. Too old for the good pension system here in Oklahoma.
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Posted: 7/29/2009 2:18:05 PM EDT
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I hear tecumsee PD is hiring also.
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Posted: 7/29/2009 3:14:21 PM EDT
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I go to canton to eat when I am hunting near there. I can't recall ever seeing a cop. If they let you hunt on duty maybe I will apply. problem is that they want you on call all the time you aren't actually getting paid. rural EMS is the same way.
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Posted: 7/29/2009 6:59:10 PM EDT
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I go to canton to eat when I am hunting near there. I can't recall ever seeing a cop. If they let you hunt on duty maybe I will apply. problem is that they want you on call all the time you aren't actually getting paid. rural EMS is the same way. Is it a typical 3 man dept? Where they all have a title? Chief, Asst Chief, and Patrol Supervisor?
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Posted: 7/29/2009 10:16:59 PM EDT
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I go to canton to eat when I am hunting near there. I can't recall ever seeing a cop. If they let you hunt on duty maybe I will apply. problem is that they want you on call all the time you aren't actually getting paid. rural EMS is the same way. Is it a typical 3 man dept? Where they all have a title? Chief, Asst Chief, and Patrol Supervisor?
Thats sad pay, I would be ashamed to ask a certified officer to work for 1600 a month. Its almost an insult. My department starts new uncertified officers out at over 35,000 per year. ( not the best pay but it beats a kick in the teeth ) We issue all equipment and benefits: uniforms for new officers $700 per year for unifoms & duty gear firearms: New Glock 21 and 870 take home patrol cars in car tough book computers radios body armor duty & training ammo vacation, sick & personal leave free college over time pay cleet & dept training paid FOP trip to D.C. during officer memorial week ....and much much more. I hate it when depts run adds for officers but refuse to pay them. If you want to be a police offcer, dont settle for 1600 a month. 
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Posted: 7/30/2009 2:09:31 PM EDT
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I go to canton to eat when I am hunting near there. I can't recall ever seeing a cop. If they let you hunt on duty maybe I will apply. problem is that they want you on call all the time you aren't actually getting paid. rural EMS is the same way. Is it a typical 3 man dept? Where they all have a title? Chief, Asst Chief, and Patrol Supervisor?
Thats sad pay, I would be ashamed to ask a certified officer to work for 1600 a month. Its almost an insult. My department starts new uncertified officers out at over 35,000 per year. ( not the best pay but it beats a kick in the teeth ) We issue all equipment and benefits: uniforms for new officers $700 per year for unifoms & duty gear firearms: New Glock 21 and 870 take home patrol cars in car tough book computers radios body armor duty & training ammo vacation, sick & personal leave free college over time pay cleet & dept training paid FOP trip to D.C. during officer memorial week ....and much much more. I hate it when depts run adds for officers but refuse to pay them. If you want to be a police offcer, dont settle for 1600 a month.
Getting paid a decent wage for cop work in OK seems to be a rarity really. I remember when some county deputies graduated cleet a couple of years ago. As far as equipment goes the county gave them two patches.......thats it They had to buy everything else.
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Posted: 7/31/2009 11:34:17 PM EDT
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I go to canton to eat when I am hunting near there. I can't recall ever seeing a cop. If they let you hunt on duty maybe I will apply. problem is that they want you on call all the time you aren't actually getting paid. rural EMS is the same way. This would be why I don't do the cop thing or the EMS thing any more. I think people would be surprised to know how many of our public safety workers out here are on food stamps and the like. Holy crap if we can't pay a plumber, electrician, or painter $35/hr at American Airlines though. Bah, this is one time I'm glad Dan isn't here to give me that line of union crap again. |
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Posted: 8/1/2009 3:54:11 PM EDT
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I go to canton to eat when I am hunting near there. I can't recall ever seeing a cop. If they let you hunt on duty maybe I will apply. problem is that they want you on call all the time you aren't actually getting paid. rural EMS is the same way. This would be why I don't do the cop thing or the EMS thing any more. I think people would be surprised to know how many of our public safety workers out here are on food stamps and the like. Holy crap if we can't pay a plumber, electrician, or painter $35/hr at American Airlines though. Bah, this is one time I'm glad Dan isn't here to give me that line of union crap again. you really shouldnt pick on union plumbers or pipefitters,its a skilled trade. 
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Posted: 8/1/2009 4:00:01 PM EDT
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I go to canton to eat when I am hunting near there. I can't recall ever seeing a cop. If they let you hunt on duty maybe I will apply. problem is that they want you on call all the time you aren't actually getting paid. rural EMS is the same way. This would be why I don't do the cop thing or the EMS thing any more. I think people would be surprised to know how many of our public safety workers out here are on food stamps and the like. Holy crap if we can't pay a plumber, electrician, or painter $35/hr at American Airlines though. Bah, this is one time I'm glad Dan isn't here to give me that line of union crap again. you really shouldnt pick on union plumbers or pipefitters,its a skilled trade. If I ever need an EMT I sure hope he has a whole hell of a lot of skill
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Posted: 8/1/2009 4:06:13 PM EDT
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you really shouldnt pick on union plumbers or pipefitters,its a skilled trade. It's a skilled trade trying to pull people back from the light when they have one foot in the grave too, and they pay peanuts for it. People working on other people and making life saving decisions shouldn't be making 1/3 the amount of pay that someone turning a wrench or cutting some pipe is making. It's wrong on so many levels. This is to take nothing away from your skilled vocation pipefitter. You tell people that you're cutting back the police department, fire department or EMS and they get angry. If the same thing were said for union plumbers or pipefitters you wouldn't see the same public outcry. Bah, you know what I'm saying. Most of us on here are all on the same page. 
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Posted: 8/1/2009 4:08:10 PM EDT
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I go to canton to eat when I am hunting near there. I can't recall ever seeing a cop. If they let you hunt on duty maybe I will apply. problem is that they want you on call all the time you aren't actually getting paid. rural EMS is the same way. This would be why I don't do the cop thing or the EMS thing any more. I think people would be surprised to know how many of our public safety workers out here are on food stamps and the like. Holy crap if we can't pay a plumber, electrician, or painter $35/hr at American Airlines though. Bah, this is one time I'm glad Dan isn't here to give me that line of union crap again. you really shouldnt pick on union plumbers or pipefitters,its a skilled trade. If I ever need an EMT I sure hope he has a whole hell of a lot of skill Nothing wrong with a UNION keeps the company honest, 
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