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kumite · 03-22-2006, 07:01 PM

I just started with the Carbon County Sherrifs office as a corrections officer and I go to the academy on monday the 27th. woohoo.

Mike TRT · 03-22-2006, 07:29 PM

congrats......

tjc · 03-23-2006, 03:17 AM

question does correction officers go through about the same tranning as patrol officers?

pfccypret · 03-23-2006, 01:40 PM

Rarely if they are just corrections officers.

If it's a sheriff's department and the corrections officers are certified LEOs, then they do.

kumite · 03-23-2006, 03:59 PM

here in utah the training and pay and benifits are pretty much the same. and in the near future the training will be the same.

opskmallory · 03-24-2006, 04:27 AM

As for actual on the job training, Corrections and patrol differ as much as the actual work differs. They are both state certified law enforcement officers. The prerequisites and minimum requirements are usually the same; the exception being some agencies require you already be POST certified (did it on your own) and others that you are POST CERTIFIABLE (they will put you through it once they decide they want to hire you). Most LE agencies do not sponsor you through the academy and require that you have already put yourself through POST at one of their satellite academies at various state colleges. A handful of agencies including UHP, Salt Lake City PD, and apparently Carbon Co. will sponsor newly hired employees through the state operated academy in Salt Lake. This option is much faster taking only about 5 months vs 9-12 months for self sponsored. The disadvantage is that you are often competing against other people who are already certified, which gives them an extreme advantage. To be sponsored is a credit to your name and character, IMHO. Many people who get hired in corrections and get sponsored, will work a couple of years to get some experience, then leave for to patrol. Not only do they get certified at the state's expense, but they also get a couple of good experience that LE agencies seek. It's not a bad path to take to get on the road.

Congrats buddy and Good Luck at CC.

03-22-2006, 07:01 PM	#1
kumite XDTalk Newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: utah Posts: 16	new job I just started with the Carbon County Sherrifs office as a corrections officer and I go to the academy on monday the 27th. woohoo.

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Mike TRT XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Chicagoland Posts: 1,376	congrats...... __________________ \"There is no hunting like the hunting of a man. And those who have hunted men long enough and liked it never cared for anything else thereafter.\"

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03-23-2006, 03:17 AM	#3
tjc XDTalk Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 57	question does correction officers go through about the same tranning as patrol officers?

03-23-2006, 01:40 PM	#4
pfccypret XDTalk Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 40	Rarely if they are just corrections officers. If it's a sheriff's department and the corrections officers are certified LEOs, then they do.

03-23-2006, 03:59 PM	#5
kumite XDTalk Newbie Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: utah Posts: 16	here in utah the training and pay and benifits are pretty much the same. and in the near future the training will be the same.

03-24-2006, 04:27 AM	#6
opskmallory XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Spanish Fork, UT Posts: 358	As for actual on the job training, Corrections and patrol differ as much as the actual work differs. They are both state certified law enforcement officers. The prerequisites and minimum requirements are usually the same; the exception being some agencies require you already be POST certified (did it on your own) and others that you are POST CERTIFIABLE (they will put you through it once they decide they want to hire you). Most LE agencies do not sponsor you through the academy and require that you have already put yourself through POST at one of their satellite academies at various state colleges. A handful of agencies including UHP, Salt Lake City PD, and apparently Carbon Co. will sponsor newly hired employees through the state operated academy in Salt Lake. This option is much faster taking only about 5 months vs 9-12 months for self sponsored. The disadvantage is that you are often competing against other people who are already certified, which gives them an extreme advantage. To be sponsored is a credit to your name and character, IMHO. Many people who get hired in corrections and get sponsored, will work a couple of years to get some experience, then leave for to patrol. Not only do they get certified at the state's expense, but they also get a couple of good experience that LE agencies seek. It's not a bad path to take to get on the road. Congrats buddy and Good Luck at CC.