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shawnaz0916
03-06-2006, 05:39 AM
Anyone have any experience with or comments on working for North San Diego County area PDs (ie Oceanside, Calrsbad, Escondido, etc...)?

Thanks,
Shawn
Fuzz
03-06-2006, 12:24 PM
I live in the area and I originally tried getting hired by those agencies a while ago. Also went to the academy with some guys from Oceanside and Escondido.

Escondido - take home rides, getting a new station, top three in pay in the county, large hispanic population, has a lot of specialty assignments for a smaller department, pretty good reputation, just hired a lot of laterals lately

Oceanside - third largest city and PD in the county, used to be the worst paid in the county now in the top three (base pay is number one I believe as of January), samoan/black/hispanic gang problems, PD seems to have the support of the mayor/council (mayor is former PD),lot of ex-military in the PD, had a hard time retaining officers because of the pay issues (should not be an issue now though), had some recent discrimination lawsuits at the PD but a lot of good people working there

Thats it off the top of my head......
jnojr
03-07-2006, 05:29 PM
Escondido just opened up a recruitement for entry level officers!

http://www.ci.escondido.ca.us/depts/hr/recruit/pdf/po-trainee.pdf

It's one of the most highly regarded departments around.
m_chevy
03-08-2006, 02:41 AM
Don't overlook the SD Sheriff and the Chula Vista PD. Also, SD Harbor Police. I know they're not North County, but good agencies with excellent pay and all the OT you can handle.
nobody33
03-08-2006, 05:28 AM
Don't overlook the SD Sheriff and the Chula Vista PD. Also, SD Harbor Police. I know they're not North County, but good agencies with excellent pay and all the OT you can handle.

Harbor has a lot of OT? Is it all airport OT?
coltpython
03-09-2006, 12:30 PM
Oceanside is a good dept I know a few guys who work there. Escondido is a really good dept but they are very picky on who they hire. My friend was a Background investigator there and now works traffic division.
coltpython
03-09-2006, 12:32 PM
Oh and Carlsbad is good if you want to scratch tickets all day...