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.