Rumor bunch of COs quit?????

[hunter40502]

Have no idea of the validity of this.....Neighbor told me he heard several COs quit due to KSP getting pay raises and they didn't. Fake news or something to it?

What is a CO?

 

[muddhunter]

It’s a Conservation Officer. (Game Warden)

What is a CO?

 

[FF/EMT516]

How many does the department? I’ve heard these guys are extremely over worked and undermanned. I have a feeling CO’s just play whackamole.

I think they play whack a mole because they have such a high call volume compared to the amount of staff they have. And it’s unreasonable to think that patrol officers and sheriffs deputies and state policemen should be doing the job of conservation officers.

 

[hunter40502]

It’s a Conservation Officer. (Game Warden)

Oh, thank you!

 

[HillBillyFiveO]

In the shape they are in, it'd take ten years of consistent hiring, to get them to where they'd need to be to retain officers. If they're making $40k, that may be acceptable if they're only working forty hours per week, in one County. My guess is too little money, too many hours and too big of an area. Finding 120 people to apply, let alone 120 making it through the training process and into the field, is terribly difficult. Hiring process, training and retention would leave you with about 5, maybe. Uphill battle for sure, but hopefully they get them to where it's attractive for folks to come to work for them. I appreciate what they try to do.

Floyd T

 

[littlebear]

In the shape they are in, it'd take ten years of consistent hiring, to get them to where they'd need to be to retain officers. If they're making $40k, that may be acceptable if they're only working forty hours per week, in one County. My guess is too little money, too many hours and too big of an area. Finding 120 people to apply, let alone 120 making it through the training process and into the field, is terribly difficult. Hiring process, training and retention would leave you with about 5, maybe. Uphill battle for sure, but hopefully they get them to where it's attractive for folks to come to work for them. I appreciate what they try to do.

Floyd T

Glad to see you back on here Floyd

 

[HillBillyFiveO]

Thank you, sir. Life and work had me waaaaayyyyy too busy and cut back on 'net time. I'll try to be a bit more active again. Enjoy the day.

Floyd T

 

[HCDH66]

I’m still looking for some kind of benefit I receive from the department of fish and wildlife. I’m open to suggestions, but I’m pretty sure their existence doesn’t really have an impact. Please correct me if I’m wrong?

So you are saying you don't get benefit from the department of fish and wildlife? Sorry to be so direct, but that statement is utterly ridiculous. So we should just do away with limits and seasons? We should just shoot or catch whatever the heck we want? How did that work out in the late 1800's and early 1900's when most of the wildlife populations were nearly decimated.

Is the KDFW perfect? Far from it. Could they do better in certain areas? Sure. But take a bit of a historic look at where we have come. We have some of the best deer hunting opportunities in the nation.

 

[CRFmxracer]

I can believe it. I don’t think the salary is much plus a lot had to get degrees(loans) to pursue it but now I don’t think it’s a requirement. I got the impression it wasn’t what it’s cracked up to be.

I wanted to be a co growing up till I found out they made 35k a year. Used to the state would give you a housing allowance now all they get is a truck and gun

 

[CRFmxracer]

CO’s are in that 40k neighborhood which considering what lots of local pds pay isn’t much. After talking to several I was under the impression they were responding to their calls and taking some other calls from local agencies as over flow.

When I was much younger I used to think that would be a cool job but I got a hard lesson in economics early on and realized I’d be better off doing something else.

Lmpd starts at 65k w take home car

 

[CRFmxracer]

I think they play whack a mole because they have such a high call volume compared to the amount of staff they have. And it’s unreasonable to think that patrol officers and sheriffs deputies and state policemen should be doing the job of conservation officers.

Exactly, I sat and watched a crackhead trying to break into a car for 30 minutes after calling the police, no one showed up. You think a cop is gonna care about someone poaching yeah right they got bigger fish to fry

 

[Little FR]

Exactly, I sat and watched a crackhead trying to break into a car for 30 minutes after calling the police, no one showed up. You think a cop is gonna care about someone poaching yeah right they got bigger fish to fry

Or no fish at all. Scared to death to start a riot or get sued.

 

[pead]

I wanted to be a co growing up till I found out they made 35k a year. Used to the state would give you a housing allowance now all they get is a truck and gun

I checked into it myself at Hocking Tech here in Ohio. The first words out of the guys mouth was if you loved to hunt and fish this ain’t the gig for you because you’re working so much at that time. Is there any truth to the No degree requirement?

 

[FF/EMT516]

Exactly, I sat and watched a crackhead trying to break into a car for 30 minutes after calling the police, no one showed up. You think a cop is gonna care about someone poaching yeah right they got bigger fish to fry

The exact point I was trying to make. And it’s the same pretty much every where you go. They’re spread so thin, they barely have enough manpower to cover their own calls. Then, say you have at night 3 deputies working and they’re all on a fatality accident, one clears go to a domestic. Someone calls in that they just seen spotlights in a field and heard a gunshot. They’ll follow up on it, sure. But you do think that’s the top of their priorities at the moment?

 

[3PointSlayer]

I checked into it myself at Hocking Tech here in Ohio. The first words out of the guys mouth was if you loved to hunt and fish this ain’t the gig for you because you’re working so much at that time. Is there any truth to the No degree requirement?

Not sure about game wardens but State Police just have to have high school education now. Which is good. It gets them to retirement quicker. I feel like college is pointless to be a game warden. Ex poachers would make good ones though.