New Hires

Hello RBPD,
Just wanted to know if you guy's are still conducting oral board interviews for police positions. If so, has there been any new hires and how long do you anticipate interviews to continue? Thanks for any info.

Any info at all would be greatly appreciated guys.

I think Riviera Beach PD has the potential to be an awesome 10-8 agency but after further looking into how you recruit and select the people you choose to work for you, I don't see it happening anytime soon. It's bad enough that law enforcement and everything about it is totally subjective but you guy's lack the ability to select the real from the fake. Riviera Beach is the toughest city in Palm Beach County. You guy's deal with crime on a much different scale than the other cities in Palm Beach, and yet you hire these so called "Do Gooders" that look good on paper but come nowhere close to having the heart or balls to police that city. Most of them use you guy's to get their foot in the door and the second they get a chance to go to another agency they jump ship. I'm not saying you guy's should hire thugs, but at least hire people who have some sort of life experience and know what it's like to have to accept accountability. This economy has your administration all gassed up. Because your getting flooded with applications from people who may have a lot of college and or military and absolutely no passion for law enforcement, your being blinded to the fact though that these people are only looking for a steady pay check. Do you really believe that they'll stick around once the economy stabilizes? You guy's just took a blow with that investigation and all the negative press about your officers. That whistle was blown from the inside which was really F'ed up too. I just hope you guy's soon come to realize that, if you want a strong team, you have to hire team players. I hope I didn't hurt anyone's feeling by writing this, and if I did than....well, you work in the "Raw", you can handle it, or at least you should be able to.

I think Riviera Beach PD has the potential to be an awesome 10-8 agency but after further looking into how you recruit and select the people you choose to work for you, I don't see it happening anytime soon. It's bad enough that law enforcement and everything about it is totally subjective but you guy's lack the ability to select the real from the fake. Riviera Beach is the toughest city in Palm Beach County. You guy's deal with crime on a much different scale than the other cities in Palm Beach, and yet you hire these so called "Do Gooders" that look good on paper but come nowhere close to having the heart or balls to police that city. Most of them use you guy's to get their foot in the door and the second they get a chance to go to another agency they jump ship. I'm not saying you guy's should hire thugs, but at least hire people who have some sort of life experience and know what it's like to have to accept accountability. This economy has your administration all gassed up. Because your getting flooded with applications from people who may have a lot of college and or military and absolutely no passion for law enforcement, your being blinded to the fact though that these people are only looking for a steady pay check. Do you really believe that they'll stick around once the economy stabilizes? You guy's just took a blow with that investigation and all the negative press about your officers. That whistle was blown from the inside which was really F'ed up too. I just hope you guy's soon come to realize that, if you want a strong team, you have to hire team players. I hope I didn't hurt anyone's feeling by writing this, and if I did than....well, you work in the "Raw", you can handle it, or at least you should be able to.

Your statement is a steady course of contradictions...so either you have no clue or you are acting like you have no clue. We have a kick ass agency just the way it is. There are many agencies that have people come and go. Stop jumping on this bandwagon and stop thinking that you are going to get us to write negative about our agency. We have a great bunch of guys and gals with the exception of what you call the "whistle blowers". We took a negative hit because the "whistle blowers" lied . We took a negative hit because people have personal vendetta's against Riviera Beach and people who work there. I and my co workers, whom I call family, again with the exception of the "whistle blowers", will support our agency, whom the "whistle blowers" and others tried to destroy and I will support the officers that were wrongfully accused and nearly destroyed. We aren't the only agency that has had press but we are the only agency whom "whistle blowers" were involved in. But we will survive and we welcome hard working people who don't mind getting down in the "Raw".

I think Riviera Beach PD has the potential to be an awesome 10-8 agency but after further looking into how you recruit and select the people you choose to work for you, I don't see it happening anytime soon. It's bad enough that law enforcement and everything about it is totally subjective but you guy's lack the ability to select the real from the fake. Riviera Beach is the toughest city in Palm Beach County. You guy's deal with crime on a much different scale than the other cities in Palm Beach, and yet you hire these so called "Do Gooders" that look good on paper but come nowhere close to having the heart or balls to police that city. Most of them use you guy's to get their foot in the door and the second they get a chance to go to another agency they jump ship. I'm not saying you guy's should hire thugs, but at least hire people who have some sort of life experience and know what it's like to have to accept accountability. This economy has your administration all gassed up. Because your getting flooded with applications from people who may have a lot of college and or military and absolutely no passion for law enforcement, your being blinded to the fact though that these people are only looking for a steady pay check. Do you really believe that they'll stick around once the economy stabilizes? You guy's just took a blow with that investigation and all the negative press about your officers. That whistle was blown from the inside which was really F'ed up too. I just hope you guy's soon come to realize that, if you want a strong team, you have to hire team players. I hope I didn't hurt anyone's feeling by writing this, and if I did than....well, you work in the "Raw", you can handle it, or at least you should be able to.

Your statement is a steady course of contradictions...so either you have no clue or you are acting like you have no clue. We have a kick ass agency just the way it is. There are many agencies that have people come and go. Stop jumping on this bandwagon and stop thinking that you are going to get us to write negative about our agency. We have a great bunch of guys and gals with the exception of what you call the "whistle blowers". We took a negative hit because the "whistle blowers" lied . We took a negative hit because people have personal vendetta's against Riviera Beach and people who work there. I and my co workers, whom I call family, again with the exception of the "whistle blowers", will support our agency, whom the "whistle blowers" and others tried to destroy and I will support the officers that were wrongfully accused and nearly destroyed. We aren't the only agency that has had press but we are the only agency whom "whistle blowers" were involved in. But we will survive and we welcome hard working people who don't mind getting down in the "Raw".

Your statement clearly confirms that YOU have no clue and it's no act at all. Pay attention! The last thing I hope is for you guy's to write negatively about each other, but just about every post on this board about the Riviera Beach PD is you guy's writing negatively about each other so here's a news flash for you, the bandwagon is full. You say that people have personal vendetta's against Riviera Beach and the people who work there, well I'd say so, especially the "whistle blowers", why do you think that is?

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I think Riviera Beach PD has the potential to be an awesome 10-8 agency but after further looking into how you recruit and select the people you choose to work for you, I don't see it happening anytime soon. It's bad enough that law enforcement and everything about it is totally subjective but you guy's lack the ability to select the real from the fake. Riviera Beach is the toughest city in Palm Beach County. You guy's deal with crime on a much different scale than the other cities in Palm Beach, and yet you hire these so called "Do Gooders" that look good on paper but come nowhere close to having the heart or balls to police that city. Most of them use you guy's to get their foot in the door and the second they get a chance to go to another agency they jump ship. I'm not saying you guy's should hire thugs, but at least hire people who have some sort of life experience and know what it's like to have to accept accountability. This economy has your administration all gassed up. Because your getting flooded with applications from people who may have a lot of college and or military and absolutely no passion for law enforcement, your being blinded to the fact though that these people are only looking for a steady pay check. Do you really believe that they'll stick around once the economy stabilizes? You guy's just took a blow with that investigation and all the negative press about your officers. That whistle was blown from the inside which was really F'ed up too. I just hope you guy's soon come to realize that, if you want a strong team, you have to hire team players. I hope I didn't hurt anyone's feeling by writing this, and if I did than....well, you work in the "Raw", you can handle it, or at least you should be able to.

Your statement is a steady course of contradictions...so either you have no clue or you are acting like you have no clue. We have a kick ass agency just the way it is. There are many agencies that have people come and go. Stop jumping on this bandwagon and stop thinking that you are going to get us to write negative about our agency. We have a great bunch of guys and gals with the exception of what you call the "whistle blowers". We took a negative hit because the "whistle blowers" lied . We took a negative hit because people have personal vendetta's against Riviera Beach and people who work there. I and my co workers, whom I call family, again with the exception of the "whistle blowers", will support our agency, whom the "whistle blowers" and others tried to destroy and I will support the officers that were wrongfully accused and nearly destroyed. We aren't the only agency that has had press but we are the only agency whom "whistle blowers" were involved in. But we will survive and we welcome hard working people who don't mind getting down in the "Raw".

Your statement clearly confirms that YOU have no clue and it's no act at all. Pay attention! The last thing I hope is for you guy's to write negatively about each other, but just about every post on this board about the Riviera Beach PD is you guy's writing negatively about each other so here's a news flash for you, the bandwagon is full. You say that people have personal vendetta's against Riviera Beach and the people who work there, well I'd say so, especially the "whistle blowers", why do you think that is?[/quote:12ggz7ub]





We are so glad that you are so concerned for us ....poor us ....well i'm here to tell you that we are all ok and we don't care about the whistle blowers or anything else. As far as people writing negatively about each other..sure there is some of that ..and there is a lot of good written here. There is goodand bad written on all these websites..it's life. So whomever you are, go to another agency and ask them why they write negatively about each other. Ask them about their so called issues and problems. We don't want any.

All I have to say is "conduct yourselves accordingly", it took me getting arrested to notice things in my life and about this department. To GTG the original poster, you don't want to work for this department. This entire department is corrupt, from the Chief all the way down. It's funny that people are coming on here and "knocking" whistleblowers, does anyone even care how whistleblowers came about, well I do! Whistleblowers are good and moral people that are trying to alert the outside world about a corrupt department/business or place of employment. You should be thankful for whistleblowers because they are usually people that want to do the right thing and expose the corruption so everyone can move forward. After reading these posts people want to put the whistleblowers in the corner and say, "not this department, or you're not part of us!". Please this department is so corrupt hell even the bricks made to build this place were put there by evil people. Like I said I am not remaining silent anymore, I know where I will end up and it's my turn to let everyone know just how corrupt this place is... People in this organization stab each other in the back to get ahead, administrators overlook immoral acts...

To GTG save your ink and apply anywhere else but here, trust me you will thank me for it...

For all of you guests reading these posts, this above post is not by sgt. dodson. I've known sgt. dodson for over ten years and he is the most pro Riviera Beach Police you will ever find. So whomever you are, you don't know sgt. dodson. To any person who wants to apply to Riviera Beach Police, go for it. We look for great people.

to above poster, pro riviera beach eh? yeah because the department covered his tracks up until his arrest you mean? people that work for riviera beach police think the badge they carry will get them out of anything including sgt. dodson. I was there when he was arrested and he thought his riviera beach badge would clear him, well it did not plain and simple. i could go on and on of how many corrupt officers who work for riviera beach thought the badge would help them out, *cough* morris, toombs, schneider.

to above poster, pro riviera beach eh? yeah because the department covered his tracks up until his arrest you mean? people that work for riviera beach police think the badge they carry will get them out of anything including sgt. dodson. I was there when he was arrested and he thought his riviera beach badge would clear him, well it did not plain and simple. i could go on and on of how many corrupt officers who work for riviera beach thought the badge would help them out, *cough* morris, toombs, schneider.

Mcmannus ..or whomever you are....worry about your own self and your own department if you are truly someone from "another" agency, which I suspect you aren't because it would be pretty damned sad that you have to come onto our website to cry.

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I think Riviera Beach PD has the potential to be an awesome 10-8 agency but after further looking into how you recruit and select the people you choose to work for you, I don't see it happening anytime soon. It's bad enough that law enforcement and everything about it is totally subjective but you guy's lack the ability to select the real from the fake. Riviera Beach is the toughest city in Palm Beach County. You guy's deal with crime on a much different scale than the other cities in Palm Beach, and yet you hire these so called "Do Gooders" that look good on paper but come nowhere close to having the heart or balls to police that city. Most of them use you guy's to get their foot in the door and the second they get a chance to go to another agency they jump ship. I'm not saying you guy's should hire thugs, but at least hire people who have some sort of life experience and know what it's like to have to accept accountability. This economy has your administration all gassed up. Because your getting flooded with applications from people who may have a lot of college and or military and absolutely no passion for law enforcement, your being blinded to the fact though that these people are only looking for a steady pay check. Do you really believe that they'll stick around once the economy stabilizes? You guy's just took a blow with that investigation and all the negative press about your officers. That whistle was blown from the inside which was really F'ed up too. I just hope you guy's soon come to realize that, if you want a strong team, you have to hire team players. I hope I didn't hurt anyone's feeling by writing this, and if I did than....well, you work in the "Raw", you can handle it, or at least you should be able to.

Your statement is a steady course of contradictions...so either you have no clue or you are acting like you have no clue. We have a kick ass agency just the way it is. There are many agencies that have people come and go. Stop jumping on this bandwagon and stop thinking that you are going to get us to write negative about our agency. We have a great bunch of guys and gals with the exception of what you call the "whistle blowers". We took a negative hit because the "whistle blowers" lied . We took a negative hit because people have personal vendetta's against Riviera Beach and people who work there. I and my co workers, whom I call family, again with the exception of the "whistle blowers", will support our agency, whom the "whistle blowers" and others tried to destroy and I will support the officers that were wrongfully accused and nearly destroyed. We aren't the only agency that has had press but we are the only agency whom "whistle blowers" were involved in. But we will survive and we welcome hard working people who don't mind getting down in the "Raw".

Your statement clearly confirms that YOU have no clue and it's no act at all. Pay attention! The last thing I hope is for you guy's to write negatively about each other, but just about every post on this board about the Riviera Beach PD is you guy's writing negatively about each other so here's a news flash for you, the bandwagon is full. You say that people have personal vendetta's against Riviera Beach and the people who work there, well I'd say so, especially the "whistle blowers", why do you think that is?

We are so glad that you are so concerned for us ....poor us ....well i'm here to tell you that we are all ok and we don't care about the whistle blowers or anything else. As far as people writing negatively about each other..sure there is some of that ..and there is a lot of good written here. There is goodand bad written on all these websites..it's life. So whomever you are, go to another agency and ask them why they write negatively about each other. Ask them about their so called issues and problems. We don't want any.[/quote:1ekcrt7x]

Concerned for you! I'm not concerned for you, I feel sorry for you!