Check List to Assist with Completion of the Personal and Work History Document for Reserve Deputy Sheriff Applicants.

The following items address areas of the application form where errors or omissions commonly occur. Many section of the application are easily understood, requiring no special instructions.

1. Is your application typed or neatly printed--using blue or black ink?

2. Read your filled-out application section by section to make sure you have answered all questions to your satisfaction. If a section does not apply, did you put the initials DNA at the beginning of the section? (You do not need to write DNA in every space for the section.)

3. Are your answers complete and are they understandable to anyone reviewing your application? Provide supplemental pages for answers requiring lengthy responses.

4. In Section I, Personal Information (page 1), did you date the application and did you write “Reserve Deputy Sheriff as the position applied for?

5. In Section II, Current Resident (page 1), if renting did you give the name address and telephone number of the person to whom you pay rent or are visiting?

6. In Section IV, Family History (page 4), are your relatives listed in the designated order?

7. In Section VI, Residence Information (page 6), did you leave any unaccounted for gaps in time? There should be no gaps.

8. In Section VII, Employment Information (pages 7-9), are there any gaps in time? There should be no gaps. You can provide a supplement page to explain unusual employment situations.

9. In section IX Military Information (page 11), have you provided your selective service number if you are a male born after on or after January 1, 1960? The Selective Service web-site is www.sss.gov.

10. In Section X, Financial Information (pages 12-13), have you provided a written explanation for any “yes” response?

11. In Section XIII, Traffic Information (page 16), have you provided complete insurance information? Remember that state law requires you to have liability insurance for all vehicles you own.

12. In Section XIV, References (page 17), did you provide at least two references that are approximately your own age? Have you provided complete address information (no P.O. boxes) for your references including ZIP codes?

13. Be sure you have signed and dated your application. (Page 17)

14. Remember to bring two photographs (passport size). Print your names on the back of each photograph.

15. Be sure to bring your autobiography. It must describe your life from birth to present and include any traumatic experiences, three high points in your life and three low points. It should be hand printed on one side of at least five sheets of lined white paper.

16. Also bring two single-paragraph compositions on separate sheets of line white paper that describe three of your character strengths and three of your character weaknesses.

Be prepared to return with your completed application and documents at the next orientation meeting.

Should you have questions, call Reserve Forces Bureau at STAR Center is 562-946-7871 or send an email inquiry to lasdrfb@gmail.com

TO START THE BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION PROCESS, THE FOLLOWING MUST BE SUBMITTED:
*completed application
*two passport style photos
*applicant autobiography
*description of applicant’s three strengths and three weaknesses

IF YOU ARE SUBMITTING YOUR APPLICATION TO AN LASD FACILITY OTHER THAN RFB/STAR CENTER, YOU MUST MAIL A COPY OF THE FIRST PAGE OF THE APPLICATION FORM TO:
LASD RESERVE FORCES BUREAU
ATTN: RECRUITING SGT
11515 S. COLIMA BL
ROOM A100
WHITTIER CA 90604

INDICATE TO WHICH UNIT YOU ARE SUBMITTING THE APPLICATION AND THE DATE OF SUBMISSION.

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