Reserve

Anyone care to comment on your Reserve Deputy unit? Thinking of applying.

The reserve unit is pretty decent. Good equipment, good support from full time and brass. A lot of training to get released to solo patrol but it is all pretty high speed stuff.

I AM RETIERD SOUTH FLORIDA P.O.
I WANT TO KEEP MY CERTIFICATION ACTIVE,
HOW DO I GO ABOUT THIS?
ALSO I RETIERED ON A DISABILITY, WOULD THAT BE A PROBLEM?

Thanks for the info. I read that reserves can work details after FTO. That sounds good.

Is it possible (legal, ethical) for a reserve deputy to be hired as a police officer(windermere, oakland or edgewood) and still remain a reserve deputy?

if you retired on medical retirement as a police officer you can NEVER do the job again or they will pull that retirement.

Is it possible (legal, ethical) for a reserve deputy to be hired as a police officer(windermere, oakland or edgewood) and still remain a reserve deputy?

no I think you can only have one officer job.

Section 5(a), Art. II, State Const., provides in part:

No person shall hold at the same time more
than one office under the government of the
state and the counties and municipalities
therein . . . .

Number: AGO 90-15
Date: February 22, 1990
Subject: Dual-Office Holding/Part-time municipal police officers

http://myfloridalegal.com/ago.nsf/Opini ... 440051A87A

Excellent replies! I thank you both. However, there appear to be exceptions.

The Second District Court of Appeal in Rampil v. State,[7]
expanded the exception. In Rampil, the court considered
whether a municipal police officer also serving as a deputy
sheriff was in violation of s. 5(a), Art. II, State Const.
Although the dual appointment was not temporary, as was the
case in Vinales, the police officer received no remunera-
tion for his duties as deputy sheriff. The court, thus,
concluded that there was no violation of the dual
officeholding prohibition.


This ruling seems to support the premise that one could be a paid municipal police officer and an unpaid reserve deputy sheriff. Anyone have a different opinion, or know of someone in this situation? Again, thank you for the replies.

I am a state officer and would love to join a reserve unit. Mainly to go out on patrol from time to time and keep my skills up. As an investigator, you sometimes lose site of what you use to be and what happens outside of the day shift. So, does that ruling apply and am I eligible?

It seems clear to me that as long as one office is unpaid, we're good to go. Agency policy and chain of command may have something to say about it though.