questions

[Ninja1234]

Do California Agencies do polygraph testing?

Also, would it be wise to just go ahead and pay a academy fee and get POST certified without being hired by a department? I was thinking of maybe going to a Academy in Seaside CA.

[LA DEP]

Most agencies do a polygraph as part of your background investigation.....

before paying your own way through the academy, check to see if the agency that you want to work for will even accept that academy for your training......I'm not sure if we are the only ones that do it, but we require all applicants to go through our academy.....