Already working for a PD for a couple of years trying to go to a another department.  One question

1. I will have to take a poly for the first time, does anyone think that me being a police officer already will have any effect the way the poly is given to me?

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Nytonh, 

We hear a great deal (both publicly and privately) from officers in the above situation that nunyn mentioned. Those with years of service and impeccable personnel records report being denied transfer employment on the basis of unreliable polygraph “tests” alone. The majority of our contacts have been from cops in New York (NYPD and other jobs) and Washington, DC attempting to transfer to departments in Florida (multiple departments but most notably Ft. Lauderdale).  

My recommendations are the same as nunyun's--read The Lie Behind the Lie Detector (available free from this site) and learn as much as possible about the polygraph process.

I'd consider printing a copy out and having it bound at a print shop like Kinko's for easier reading.

Same thing happened with me.  Apparently by being a LEO you are given more questions to respond to on top of those required for any other candidate with no LE experience.

Either way, it still comes down to the same old "reliable" polygraph and the examiner to determine if you have or have not been a good cop. 

My advice:  find  an agency that does not polygraph and try out for that one.  Reason being that should you fail the poly for this one, you are going to have a heck of a hard time finding employment with another department thereafter.  Ignorance is rampant and even though I never failed a poly, (I received inconclusives)  for a while there every department I applied with assumed that Inconclusive=FAIL.