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Mark my words, certain municipal police department's recruiting department mentioned above will screw you around, they already did with all my buddies (and we all used to work for the them), all of them excluding me are now in the RCMP.

Unless you are an exempt candidate (meaning that you have a police badge right now and are looking to transfer to that certain municipal police department) and unless you know some senior sergeants, inspectors or higherups who can vouch for you, it will be tough trying to get in.

I know their recruiting tactics:
"oh don't go to the RCMP, come join us"
"oh, now that we got you into our pool of millions of candidates, you still need lots of life experience, so you are deferred, but don't go and join the RCMP"
"oh, seems like you got more life experience now, but you still need this, this, this and this, deferring again for another year or do you want to join the jail? (sweet, now we just need a few more suckers to join the jail so I can answer to the inspector in charge of the court and detentional sevices section that we have gotten almost enough people to fill the void created by the jail special constables leaving to join the RCMP or other departments because we focked them around too much in the recruiting process)"
"Oh RCMP is hiring you? Let us lift the deferal, we will even ignore the assessment center results! You want to come to us now (and burn the bridges with the RCMP)?"

All true stories that I've seen while I was there; and I've already spoken too much. The department itself is good, but the tactics used by the recruiting section is despicable.

Of course, your choice is yours to make, but I've seen the department making a lot of people feel miserable when these people definitely deserved better for their loyalty. Once you get in, it's a different story; but until you do, you will be dicked around by recruiting.