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Officer Review
Officer's Comment
"Watch your back here. Admin will throw you under the bus to save face."
Leadership
A-
Command explains decisions?
Usually
Concerns addressed or held against you?
Usually addressed
Command works nights/weekends?
Occasionally
Training focus or blame focus?
Training and improvement
Optics or officer safety?
Equal focus
Command competent for critical incidents?
Probably
Competency
B+
Supervisor could do your job?
Absolutely
Trust supervisor's legal answers?
Usually trust
FTOs producing competent officers?
Mostly competent
FTO sergeant quality?
Just okay
Trust DT/firearms instructors?
Some of them
% of supervisors qualified?
61-80%
Fairness & Accountability
A-
Promotions based on merit?
Mostly merit
Incompetent officers promoted?
Never
Discipline consistent regardless of rank?
Mostly
Accountability flows downhill only?
Depends
Selectors competent?
Mostly
Officer Safety
A-
Trust your backup's competency?
Usually
Staffing ever feel unsafe?
Rarely
Pressured to go solo?
Rarely
Injured officers supported?
Fully supported
Supervisor incompetence endangered you?
A few times
Backup coming fast at 3am?
Completely confident
Morale & Retention
A-
Recommend this agency?
Yes, with minor caveats
Take this job again?
Absolutely
Transfer laterally tomorrow?
Probably not
Still here in 3 years?
Probably
Workload & Mission Creep
B
Dispatched to non-police calls?
Sometimes
Expected to be MH/homeless/animal control?
Sometimes
Non-police calls delayed emergencies?
Never
Overtime voluntary or voluntold?
Mixed
Command understands patrol reality?
Somewhat disconnected