Originally Posted by Mikey682 @ Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:20 pm

yeah, the application was for agawam. I sent it in and havent heard anything. I've done the medical and am working on the PAT this week.

Originally Posted by Mikey682 @ 11 Oct 2004 13:49

what ever happened to receiving a letter 30 days prior to the start date? Now on the website, MPTC wants prospective candidates to call to find out thier status.

Originally Posted by drewpopo @ Tue Oct 12, 2004 6:26 pm

I was told about a year ago the MCPA put the arm on MPTC to run less academes so there would not be such an abundance of people with academies. The reasoning I was told is that there have been departments that simply just sign there name to someone without doing a back ground check. Therefore chiefs want to have more of an opportunity to pick officers instead of being pressured by selectman to save money and hire officers that already have an academy. I think in order for someone to be a self sponsor that they should have to at least work for a department for sometime to ensure that they are squared away person that is worthy of becoming a police officer. I was a self sponsor and worked as a part timer before going to the academy. I can think of at least 4 people in my academy that just asked the right chief and got into the academy, as far as I know three of them could not pass a background check and one could not handle being a cop.