gigag04 wrote:It's not just deputies. Our reserves are the same way.
My dept will put you through the academy to be a reserve. Issue you full uniform, badge and gun. You're only expected to work 8hrs/month and some special events. Every agency is different.
City of South Houston is/was the same. I had a friend full time on Pasadena P.D., and his brother who I think worked full time at one of the chemical plants did that to be a reserve at City of South Houston. (It started as a Mom always liked you best/brags about you the most, "My son the Police Officer" ...but I'll make her proud of me too thing, It was a reverse of ...Everybody Loves Raymond
but he really enjoys it. He started in the 1980s, I think still doing it now.)