Tuesday 27 November 2012
Disadvantages of this job
There are very
few disadvantages of becoming a police officer but very serious. There is a
chance where you can be shot at in a point in your career, your life could be
on the line trying to save other lives during a shooting or other life
threatening situations, you could be working long and late hours depending on
your department, and it is a thankless job, it is your duty to protect people
and catch lawbreakers and you often don’t get thank-you’s for doing it.
Advantages of this job
There are many
advantages of becoming a police officer. Saving lifes and fighting crime might make you as a person feel good about your self and help you become a better person by doing the right thing. Some benefits of being a police officer are that New recruits who are posted to
detachment that is identified as duration location will receive one payment of
two thousand dollars to offset travel expenses which is great, Life insurances
is based on your salary not age, 6 sick days are paid for and you get an
additional 124 days at 75 % pay, officers get a drug card that covers all
prescription drugs and you also get dental/vision/hearing full coverage. The
benefits of a police officer are amazing you can’t go wrong with it; you get
many great and satisfying benefits and advantages.
Personal Characteristics/Abilities Needed for this career
Some important
abilities/skills needed for this career would be to have excellent observation
and attention skills, police officers everyday have to observe really hard to
be successful at their job. Police officers need to know how to work well under
pressure because every day there will be new problems and you don’t know what
you’re going to face and when. At the beginning of this career you have to be
extremely physically fit and you have to maintain that somehow throughout your
whole career by doing PT training with other officers once a year. Police
officers tend to have excellent memory which is really good when it comes to
court trials because you know what happened on the top of your head so you
don’t have to refer to your notebook which isn’t a bad thing if you have to anyways.
Occupational Outlook
Job opportunities in most local police departments will be favorable for qualified individuals, whereas
competition is expected for jobs in Federal agencies. Employment changes all the time. Employment of police and
detectives is expected to grow 10 percent over the 2008–18 decade, about as fast
as the average for all occupations. Population growth is the main source of demand for police service.
Regina
There was one job opening for this career but there are also many job openings to become
a security guard which is a step or two below a police officer if you don’t
make it. ( i only found one job advertisment but you could also just apply at anytime to any police force and if they need you they will hire you)
Job description
a) Police officers protect the lives and property
of citizens. They maintain order, catch lawbreakers, and help prevent crimes.
In small towns they do many duties and in Larger cities the have more of a structured
division of responsibility. Police officers may patrol the streets on foot, bikes,
in cars, they control traffic, or work as detectives investigating crimes as
they explore further in their career. At the police station officers may be
assigned to work in the crime laboratory or the records department. All
officers file reports of incidents, and always testify at trials and hearings if needed.
b) Police
officers serve the Law to protect the community and make sure everything in our
cities is under control and not in chaos. If we did not have laws or a service
to protect our community and make sure that were safe everything would be total
chaos, people would not know what to do. The general duty that a police officer
promises is the protection of lives and property through the enforcements of
laws and ordinance. A normal routine for a police officer everyday would be something as little as to check the parking meters for violations,
routine patrol, preliminary investigation and traffic regulation and as big as
dealing with a murder case and many other brutal scenes. Every time a police
officer makes an arrest they have to do lots of paper work that comes with the
arrest.
Educational Requirements
a) To become a police officer is quiet simple you
don’t really need a lot of education. You need at least four years of secondary
education but if you haven’t completed grade 12 and have completed a two or
three year community college program Ontario considers you as having met the
educational equivalence.
b) Humber
College Sheridan
College
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