Pinellas Park hires ex PCSO Deputy.

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Most come out of the jail. Can’t make it through FTO and go back to the jail.

If you get on with the wrong FTO, you are screwed. Better off to just quit the dead end jail and get LEO certified on your own. Then apply everywhere.

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Who really gives a fiddlers F__k.

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Who really gives a fiddlers F__k.

People who are trying to get into patrol.

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Ummm? Then don’t get a job as a jailer if you want to be a cop. Two different careers. No one forces you to accept a job in DDC. That’s like letting Army sway you into service as a clerk with the promise of being a soldier. You accepted the wrong job and believed a transfer was guaranteed. Stupid.

Wrong. Many, if not most, Sheriff's Offices will take an applicant for LE and tell them that there are "limited" slots available for road patrol, but that they can go into detention and in 2-3 years, they will be moved to the road. In fact, in the past, some Sheriff's Offices actually required that all hires serve a year in the jail before they could be considered for LE. So, the applicant takes the detentiion job, believing the recruitment lies and then a few years later, when he reallizes that he is never going to the road, he jumps to another agency. Sometimes they come back. Sometimes they remain with the agency that put them in a squad car.

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PPPD has NEVER hired an officer away from any real Tampa Bay agency in the time I have been here unless they were run off, fired, running from discipline issues or coming from some other smaller crap hole like Kenneth City or another 10 officer department. The do lose a lot, I mean a huge number percentage wise, to every other agency around them. They post a swearing in ceremony about every 3 days on Facebook and it’s always some 20 year old kid, military vet or out of state cop that has no idea the amount of chicken shizzz they are about to fall in to. Losing 2 and 3 years officers is normal for a starter agency like PPark, but they have a systematic way of running off very senior people who would rather leave law enforcement all together or start over as a rookie and that is a very big problem. Imagine the amount of crap it takes to make someone choose that over working another day in the park. The past year alone we saw senior officers leave to work as a court bailiff, a realtor and a carpenter in a garage workshop, and that’s just last year. Don’t worry, your ex detention deputy will be back wearing dark green in no time unless Jay Leno or one of his minions can “dirty him up” first. That is one thing the park could teach others how to do since they are experts in that craft.

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PPPD, KCPD and SPPD should be the last choices for those desperate for a paycheck or to get their foot in the door in law enforcement.

But if the jail to patrol transfer doesn't happen in 2-3 years as promised you have to take what's available to get out of the jail sh!t hole.

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At least PPPD's leadership has the balls to use its SWAT team. Lol.

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If it's good enough for the might Sheriff, he figures it's good enough for others. He started in the jail, went to Dunedin PD, then came back to the road here. So I guess he figures if he could do it, he might as well make others do it.

Gualtieri chose to continue this unwritten policy when he was appointed Sheriff but it was in effect during the Rice and Coats administrations as well

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If you work at the jail and want to go to patrol the best way to get their attention is to drop applications everywhere. When the agencies call HR the agency may offer you a shot at patrol. If not it means it doesn't want you so you might as well quit and put yourself through the LEO academy.

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If you work at the jail and want to go to patrol the best way to get their attention is to drop applications everywhere. When the agencies call HR the agency may offer you a shot at patrol. If not it means it doesn't want you so you might as well quit and put yourself through the LEO academy.

So what your saying is that PCSO didn’t want the Sheriff when he went to Dunedin?