That's a recent change for DC SO then, and peculiar that for a cash strapped sheriff's office they can spend that amount of money to train deputies who don't have independent power of arrest. Not to mention who can take off 8-12 weeks from work for a volunteer job.Ibanez wrote:You do an 8-12 week course. It's not the SCCJA, but it's still a LE academy administered by an LE agency. I looked into doing it a while back.CID1990 wrote:
Actually, nobody in SC really gives the same training. Reserves can't go through the SCCJA because seats are limited and they need them all for the regular recruits. Plus, departments pay for their trainees and budgets (especially Sheriff's office budgets) won't support it.
DCSO, like all departments with reserves, holds their own training "academy" and then the test is administered at the SCCJA- but I would find it hard to believe they have changed things to match up with the academy, because that is 8 weeks long, 5 days a week all day. To match that for someone who is working a regular job full time it would take a year or more to complete.
Reserve police accreditation standards are set by SLED/SCCJA which makes it the same for everybody, and the no pay thing is also a rule.
You sure it wasn't 8-12 weeks of evening classes two nights a week? That's how every other agency in SC that has reserves does it.










