Career Summary

Police and detectives catch criminals, collect evidence, act as the negations in disturbances and even save kittens from getting hurt once they have climbed a tree a little too high. They respond to a broad and varied assortment of calls.

Police are everywhere, in cars patrolling neighborhoods, on motorcycles on the highways, on bicycles cruising tourist areas and on horses patrolling parks. Some patrols write traffic tickets, while others direct traffic.Than there are the police that use boats for lake, river and harbor patrol. Detectives and special agents work in specialized units such as organized crime, forensics or electronic crime.

There are many duties and responsibilities of a police officer. The best description of their duty and responsibility is to enforce the law and make sure that we live in a safe environment. Depending on the officer’s assignment, they have many daily routines that must be followed. There is a lot of variety in the job. No two days will be the same for a police officer. Police Officers are always working with different people in different situations.

Police officers are employed by are government and are not always closely supervised by their employer. So they do have a lot of independence and must be trustworthy.

Most police and detectives work a minimum of 40 hours a week and report writing is a necessary daily occurrence. Because police work is a 24-hour-a-day job, some police have to work nights and weekends. They have to be ready to go to work at all times.

Police officer training requires you to be in an academy for 12 to 14 weeks. Police work is an open field and post secondary education is required before being accepted into the academy. The best college courses that are most helpful to police work are law, security, technology security, social services, criminology, psychology, and sociology.

Many people are attracted to police work because it is challenging, especially to those with military experience. There will always be the need for police officers in the future, whether on the street or employed to prevent and or catch cyber criminals. People have always needed police officers to enforce the law and they always will.

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