Looking at a position w/ Ft. Laud. P.D. (Tallahassee: attorney, buy)

[C5vette]

I am a police officer in a small NJ department, I am interested in the recruiting going for Ft.Lauderdal PD. I know tghe salary is not nearly the same as my present ($113,000) but the I am looking to leave the cold north. Anyone know anything about the PD and about rents in the area?

[trekker954]

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[Kalbo]

Originally Posted by C5vette

I am a police officer in a small NJ department, I am interested in the recruiting going for Ft.Lauderdal PD. I know tghe salary is not nearly the same as my present ($113,000) but the I am looking to leave the cold north. Anyone know anything about the PD and about rents in the area?

Have you thought about Vegas or North Las Vegas. They are both currently hiring and cost of living here is less than South Florida.

[fauve]

This isn't a very good time to come work for the State of Florida. If you do come, make sure you get your money now, becoz there won't be money after, according to a supervisor I know who was promoted but given no additional money.

There is a soft hiring freeze at the Dade State Attorney's Office - they're not rehiring people who leave. After the office lobbied Tallahassee to open up my old position as an Investigative Accountant (I was there 11 years), they were only given $36,868 to pay for it. This is what I was earning in 1992, and I was underpaid then! The average caseload when I worked was about 15 cases. The two people who remain (one, the supervisor I mentioned above, is only making $50K and is on the verge of retiring due to health issues), and a recent college grad, split over 100 complex fraud cases.

The rumors from Tallahassee now are that lay-offs are coming. Be very careful before leaving your current job.

[heydade]

Fauve is correct. Lot's of uncertainty at this time. There are even talks about fire dept's and police dept's laying off. Major hiring freezes everywhere. BSO fire rescue hired 18 people, interviewed them, test them, sent them official "start date" letters. A couple of days before they were to start, they called all 18 and told them they no longer have a job....the positions are to remain vacant for who knows how long. That is just one of the many examples. Things are very bad here.

[Nolefan34]

C5vette,

Stay put! If you are really earning $113,000, take 10,000 of it and go on a nice European vacation. Then take $40,000 and buy a new car or truck. Both of those purchases combined will cost you less than the pay cut you will take if/when you come to South Florida.

[ThumbingMyWayToHeaven]

I work at a local police department in Broward County, and there's been a hiring freeze for the past 2 years. There were rumors (last year, I think), that FTLD PD had a hiring freeze. Also, there is no way that your starting pay down here can compare with what you're making now. Where in NJ are you? I was born and raised there until I was 13, when my family moved here.