Thread: How does your agency handle seniority?

As far as I know we dont go by date of hire here. Everyone is Assigned a D number, the Sheriff right now is like D0100 something where as the newest people coming outta these classes are like D1900 or really REALLY close. That is Detention and Patrol. Reserves get RD numbers and Cadets get CD numbers. We run our own academy so like some other people there are batches, the way D numbers go is by Date of Hire, and if that falls the same I...

If I was running the show, patrol beat picks would be by seniority and seniority would be 50% of the factor in considering people for specialized assignments. It would be 25-50% of the deciding factor in promotions. Experience deserves recognition.

If they have the same hire date (which is RARE in my agency since there are seldom more than one person hired at a time) then the class rank would prevail. I don't think this has ever happened though.

We don't have mass swear-ins, just one officer at a time. If we swore in multiple people on the same day, the first person who was sworn in would have seniority. Seniority is used for shift bids, overtime and some vacation requests.

Last hired, first fired for us.

Can go as far back as date of application for test.

We don't have a union and we are staffed at the bare minimum (2).

Seniority ties are fairly common for us because we have our own academy and people are hired in batches. Shift bid is the only time it routinely comes up, and ties are broken by substracting any suspension days first and then sick days taken if there's still a tie.

a coin toss for us.

nysp goes by your entrance exam score..... which also seems arbitrary when you're looking at 2 guys w/ 20 yrs on picking vacay based on a test they took 24yrs earlier...at least i thought so until i read YOUR post....going by ssn really is BS.