Quote Originally Posted by copfish View Post
Having been both an Academy Director and Police Chief, it would help to have the POST if you are applying to agencies that do not send you to an academy. Small to medium municipal agencies, sheriff's offices, etc. Denver PD, Colorado State Patrol, large municipal and county agencies will run you through their in-house academy. But, most of these will accept a lateral transfer. Meaning you are with an agency and "transfer" to the other agency. Go for it!
This was my thinking as well. And I've all but thrown out the idea of getting with Jeffco, mainly for the first reason I already stated- kind of hard to be a LEO where you grew up and knowing what you know about many of the people around town (let's put it this way, in high school, even though I chose not to, I always knew where to get "stuff"- already had a "friend" threaten me when he heard about my first attempt at JCSO).

Thanks for all the shared advice and knowledge/experience. I'm putting together my packet today and tomorrow for RRCC's academy, then I'll need to get the gear necessary- holster, belt, mag holder and flashlight (figuring out if I want a small or large light is a little harder than I anticipated )- any ideas on local places in the metro area for this? I imagine the holster will probably have to be internet order through galls or something, since there are too many variations (Glocks, Sigs, Berettas, etc.).