LASD

[Notorious]

Not here. I worked with them out of state. Their white collar agents are all full LE and not accountants but rather, use their experience and knowledge to help in the investigations.

You can always call their field office and ask to speak to a recruiter. They have their main office in westwood off wilshire and the 405.

[TrailerparkTrash]

In general, get hired, work hard, learn a lot, develop your investigative and writing skills, work patrol for awhile (continue working hard, learning a lot, developing your investigative and writing skills), learn what a typical detective does (we have a few different types of detectives btw), work with established detectives as much as possible, put in for the spot and cross your fingers...

You forgot to add.........

".... Hope that with the Dept's new "centralized testing unit," someone that happens to score a point higher than you, REGARDLESS of experience, doesn't get the job before you do."

I can't wait for the day (because it's comming) a wonder boy with 2 years patrol and 1 year station DB puts in for homicide and gets it before a guy that's worked patrol for 10 years in Region II, OSS for the past 7 years; has done 3 dozen search warrants or more, and misses the test by one point.

What's really bogus is that the tests now are NOT job specific! When I found out that a dep that wants to apply for motors, must take the same generic test as station DB, I was shocked. Actually, nothing surprises me around here anymore.

I mean, WTF??