Had a ridiculous time dealing with the "tech" department in the Upper Darby Police station. I'm planning on going overseas to teach and I needed to get my fingerprints done so that I can send them in to CJIS in order to get a criminal background check. The clown in this dept. told me that he couldn't do this, and that I had to go through a channeler cogent from the dept. of Education or that I had to go to a different police station that does finger prints for me. Little does he know- South korea does not accept criminal back ground checks from channelers. They will only accept a CBC from the FBI, (and only if they're apostilled ugh, the process is annoying!) and in order for me to get that, I had to get my fingerprints to get my official criminal background check. He said that since it's for a teaching position overseas he couldn't do it. Was this guy for real? He probably thought that I wanted to get my background check done there- (which I didn't because it's impossible and that's not the way it works-) but when I tried to explain to him the process, he didn't want to listen. He was condescending the whole time because he thought he was right. Normally I wouldn't tell someone how to do their job, but this guy did not know what he was doing and while I was on the phone with him, he had to ask someone else how to do his job. UGH! And to top it off- You'd think since we're paying for their services, that they'd learn some social skills.
PS I went to the Havertown Police Dept. to inquire about the fingerprinting dept. and they were helpful. I also called the Ardmore police dept. to inquire about fingerprints (shopping around for the best price cuz it costs around 35 dollars to get finger prints) and I also had no issues. The only one I had a problem with was the Upper Darby Police station. Go figure. read more