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I'm waiting for the PHS to include a question asking whether an applicant has ever posed naked for a magazine or publication. One day an issue of Playboy came out containing an article labeled "Women of Steel" withing which was a topless picture of one of our officers. It said she was a...

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Really, no other responses?????

Come on folks, in my last agency it seemed like having at least three sustained sexual harassment complaints was a minimum requirement for making Deputy Chief. Many of you out there have a story or two that has made it to the public domain you can tell without...

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What you have described is normal in the hiring process. Your anxiety is not their problem. Just wait it out and leave them alone

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Let's assume they have decided to hire you. They are not going to hand you a badge and a gun and toss you out on the street. You will first need to go through an academy. Academies are not held every day. They are conducted when there are enough candidates to make it financially practical to put...

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Many years back we had a Chief who was quietly hit with a lawsuit for sexual harassment from a subordinate. I say quietly, because somehow, the press never learned about it. However, on court day when he failed to appear and lost by default, the press did find out and it made front page news.
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When you say vesting, I assume you mean leaving before retirement age. If that's the case, you first need to consider whether there's a policy or state law that mandates your agency issue you HR-218 credentials just because you put the time in (but did not retire). Nowhere in Federal law (HR-218)...

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Now that this incident happened, I wonder how many cops out there are trying to figure out how to add an extra pocket to their external vest carrier to carry a pack of Doritos, "just in case" they get a similar call in the future. (You know someone is going to do it.)

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Forgive me for poking your conscious with a sharp stick, but if you feel that kind of guilt now, what's going to happen to your psyche when you encounter a resisting suspect who fights so violently and continuously that you have to beat him half to death in order to get out with your life?
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Clearly, they're not in a hurry to fill the position.

You have to understand how this works. They're not going to hire you, give you a gun and badge and turn you loose on the streets. First, you will need to go through an academy. Academies need to have sufficient amount of cadets to...

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Just offhand, I suspect you may have a problem with the psych....

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Monday - Off
Tuesday - Off
Wednesday - Off
Thursday - Off
Friday - Off
Saturday - Off
Sunday - Off

It took many years to achieve that schedule.

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Again, just tell it like you did in your last post - concise, to the point and without emotion. Then let the Chief ask his clarifying questions. It's that simple.

If you've made it this far, he's already heard "their side." Now he wants to hear yours. All you can do is tell the...

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Then lay it out that way. This is what happened, this is what I did. I'm still not sure what I did wrong, but here I am.

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Two things. First, you are dealing with an area many applicants have difficulty understanding. The fact that you won your arbitration is somewhat meaningless. What counts is what you actually did (or didn't do) that resulted in the termination By way of example, years back I did a background on...

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By any chance are you Meghan Markle's half sister?...

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It sounds like they go after folks who sell cigarettes to kids.

https://www.calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrP...ntrolId=131492...

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There are two issues here.

First, the arrest. The fact that you were never prosecuted is meaningless. What counts is what you actually did during that incident.

Next as to gang membership. Many gangs will recruit people but keep them out of normal gang activities so they have...

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No, you have been watching too many episodes of Law And Order SVU, when the police will arrest you and the DA will send you to prison for life if you do something that is perfectly lawful, but which violates their personal philosophy or sense of social justice....

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The fact that the charges were dropped, that you were never convicted and you had the matter expunged are all meaningless when it comes to the background. What counts is your actual conduct during the matter in question....

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Now I'm confused. When this happens, do you send everyone remaining on the list a letter, throw the list out and hold a new test to fill the next vacancies? Seems costly with regard to postage and testing.

When we fill our vacancies we take the number needed from the list in score order....