Dallas Police Offering $10,000 Sign-On Bonus to New Hires

**dla4079** · 06-10-06, 10:55 AM

Originally Posted by Andrewtx

I think starting pay as I recall is around $37,000. Every Dallas officer I ever met seemed extremely professional.
Apprentice $39,030 $40,230

A rookie officer in DPD makes more than a Captain with the prison system, I AM IN THE WRONG FIELD!

**TXCharlie** · 06-10-06, 12:57 PM

That's messed up - Are you TCLEOSE?

If you REALLY want to get mad, read the Plano salaries - SWEET but naturally very hard to get in:
http://www.planopolice.org/Employmen...20SALARIES.pdf

(No I don't think $47,102 per year for recruits & $63k for street cops after 3 years is a misprint, and that doesn't include overtime or bonuses for career milestones). Almost too sweet - I'm jealous too

**Tripleseven** · 06-10-06, 01:30 PM

Lateral's must attend a 16 week academy instead of the normal 32 weeks. My academy was 23 weeks. No way I am doing another 16 weeks. My girlfriend has been trying to convince me to move to TX in a few years too.

**Andrewtx** · 06-10-06, 02:46 PM

Charlie I'm thinking of applying with DPD reserves too when I move back to the area. I'm really encouraged that the chief backs the program.

**TXCharlie** · 06-10-06, 09:24 PM

Great!!! Maybe I'll meet you over there if my knee ever heals up!!!

I had a scope on it in Feb to clean out some torn cartlege, but my latest MRI shows another tear, so looks like I get to do it all over again

**Andrewtx** · 06-10-06, 10:11 PM

Originally Posted by bull3032

The DFW metroplex is probably the best place I've ever lived (and I've lived a bunch of places in my short time on this earth). If the wife would ever give the "thumbs up" to getting the hell out of Oklahoma, Plano would be tops on my list.

I went to high school in Plano because I lived in North Dallas and got tossed up there, and I love the whole metroplex.

Charlie, do you know much about the part-time Reserve academy? Is it DPD's own academy or do they put you somewhere else? I understand it takes about a year.

**TXCharlie** · 06-10-06, 10:45 PM

No, I've just filled out the survey & got a email response from them. Here's their DPD Reserve web site:
http://www.dpdreserves.org/

Also a few other links I've collected, that you may be interested in around here;
http://www.cityofdenton.com/pages/dp...onsreserve.cfm
http://sheriff.dentoncounty.com/main...pt=54&Link=514
http://www.cor.net/pd/PDReserves.html
http://www.fortworthpd.com/reserve.htm (if it throws errors, stay away from the top row of buttons)
http://co.collin.tx.us/sheriff/reserve.jsp

DPD Reserves said their physical requirements have been relaxed so I should be ok once my knee heals & I work off some more blubber in the gym. However, Richardson said their standards are very high. Not sure about teh Sheriffs' reserves, but a guy that manufactures my bullets is a recruiter for Dallas Sheriff's reserves, and seemed positive when I talked to him about it at one of our shooting matches. Their big thing is passing a polygraph for drug use