Re: LEO training & qualification
I am going to make a generalized coment without bashing anyone. Many part time employees do not invest the time needed to really know or stay current on the policies and procedures of their part time jobs.
In some jobs that means that you have to be retrained on using the fry machine.
In police work this can cause great problems.
Other states have found this out, and some have taken steps to put a halt to it. The problem is the cost The shore communities in NJ used to use thousands of Special Officers during the summer to cover the influx of tourists. When NJ upped the training requirements to be a special officer these programms where greatly reduced, but at the cost to the communities of have to maintain larger forces of FT officers.
Look at the amount of PT officers that Dickson City has. These part timers save the town $$$ in payroll, but do they know the job as well as they should?
If you make your main paycheck driving a truck, and the uniform is just a couple of days a month, which do you pay more attention to?
This is not to excuse the "we own the streets" mentality.
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