L.A. City Traffic Officer Position

[SOCALCOP]

Does anyone have any info on the Traffic Officer postion for the City of Los Angeles? I scored a 95 after the written test and I am waiting to hear on being hired. What is the job like? They seem to always be hiring. I tested with about 200 people and they test every 3 months so I am a little concerned about how happy the officers are. Any feedback would be helpful. Thanks.

[SoCalFed]

Does anyone have any info on the Traffic Officer postion for the City of Los Angeles? I scored a 95 after the written test and I am waiting to hear on being hired. What is the job like? They seem to always be hiring. I tested with about 200 people and they test every 3 months so I am a little concerned about how happy the officers are. Any feedback would be helpful. Thanks.

From reading your bio, it says you are a sworn police officer here in Southern California. And you want to take a non-sworn unarmed position writing parking tickets? That is the main "meat and potatoes" of what Los Angeles DOT Traffic Officers do, along with directing traffic at busy intersections during rush hour. They are not part of LAPD and are not considered law enforcement by anybody.

I'm perplexed because I don't know of ANY police officer who would quit a police job to do parking enforcement. The only possibility is if this is a "post-retirement" gig. Yet your bio says you were born in 1972, which basically throws that scenario out the window. Something just doesn't sound right...

[nobody33]

I concur with the above post... is the original poster confusing the LADOT "traffic officer" position with the LADOT "traffic investigator"? The investigators are actual cops from what I understand... taxi enforcement type stuff.

[SoCalFed]

I concur with the above post... is the original poster confusing the LADOT "traffic officer" position with the LADOT "traffic investigator"? The investigators are actual cops from what I understand... taxi enforcement type stuff.

LA DOT Investigators have limited peace officer status and are not the same as a regular police officer whose authority is derived from a different section of the California penal code. Also the DOT investigators are completely unarmed. A while back I heard they were trying to get tasers authorized, but LAPD campaigned heavily against it.

As for the "traffic officer" position, here are the duties as stated on the job announcement I pulled up off the City of Los Angeles website:

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A Traffic Officer patrols an assigned area on foot, bicycle, or in a vehicle to enforce motor vehicle parking regulations; issues warnings or citations for illegal parking by entering information into a hand-held computer; impounds vehicles; and directs vehicular and pedestrian traffic at a specific intersection or other specified location.
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This is definitely not a LE job, rather plain ole parking enforcement. However from reading some of the original poster's prior posts it appears he may have been medically retired from his/her police job and is now looking for something else. IMHO I would look elsewhere...possibly with an insurance company doing fraud investigations. LA has more than enough scammers to keep any insurance company investigator busy.

[SOCALCOP]

I am about to be retired from a sworn peace officer position due to an injury and was looking for inside info on the position.