Question for the LEOs on POST academy and hiring

[Ronin13]

The vast majority of law enforcement agencies here in Colorado require a person to be POST certified before applying with them. Very few agencies run their own academies, so one almost always needs to attend an academy on their own dime (or use their GI Bill like I and many others did). After successful completion of the academy, your certification is good for only one year now, I believe (it was three years when I graduated) in which if you don't obtain employment by that time, you will need to attend a refresher course to obtain certification again.

All agencies are hard and competitive agencies to obtain employment with, especially all those in the metro area. Once you start looking in more rural (e.g. low income, low pay) areas, then the pool of candidates drops dramatically.

Awesome, thank you... that's what I was thinking. And I just got an email back from the RRCC VA person and she said yes my post-9/11 GI Bill will pay for the academy, books, POST Exam, AND BAH! My buddy who owns the security company in FL said I should get on with Vail PD- he heard they offer discounted ski passes for city employees- as one of the perks of the job.

[OneGuy67]

Awesome, thank you... that's what I was thinking. And I just got an email back from the RRCC VA person and she said yes my post-9/11 GI Bill will pay for the academy, books, POST Exam, AND BAH! My buddy who owns the security company in FL said I should get on with Vail PD- he heard they offer discounted ski passes for city employees- as one of the perks of the job.

The ski company offers the officers discounted passes only if they perform a certain amount of days as unpaid ski patrol monitors. The cost of living there is too high compared to the base salary paid for entry officers. You will end up living well outside the Vail valley and commuting or living with a bunch of roommates.

[Ronin13]

The ski company offers the officers discounted passes only if they perform a certain amount of days as unpaid ski patrol monitors. The cost of living there is too high compared to the base salary paid for entry officers. You will end up living well outside the Vail valley and commuting or living with a bunch of roommates.

That's what I was afraid of- our friends have a vacation home up in Vail, 1200 sq ft- $780,000- in Lakewood, that same house would be mid 200's.