If you have ever thought of becoming a police officer, then this article if perfect for you. In this article, you will learn everything you have ever wanted to know about policing. Things like where they work, what kind of additional training do they need or how you can become a police officer, and the dangers involved in policing.
First of all, being a police officer is like being watched all the time by everyone. Everything you do will be scrutinized by the letter, and you can not make a mistake. Indeed, you are an officer of the law, and you are a model to all the society. You have to always have a respectable attitude and always be alert.
In policing, you have to do intervention with people that are in need, like victims or people in the streets. Also, you are checking that everyone follows the law, and if they catch someone red-handed, you have to reprimand their actions. You have to do surveillance during events and assure that the peace is conserved, or you have to sometimes put your life in danger for the security of others.
On a typical day, police officers do not know what they are about to do. They may have demands from their superiors to do some surveillance in some specific intersections or in some neighborhood. But, during the day, they can receive a call of suicide or a shooting in a certain sector. So, they can not know what is about to come in front of them.
Police officers work in a variety of places all over the country. In fact, they are working in neighborhood posts, but they are also dispatched all over the territory.
You can become a police officer by starting your studies in Police Technology in college, then you can go to the police academy at Nicolet. There, you will learn everything concrete about the job, and you will have some simulations to practice your interventions with different people. Also, you will have to do entrance tests to get in the academy, like medical tests, a jugement test, a psychometric test or a physical test.
In average when you start, you can make up to 55k a year and when you hit the top salary 5 years later, you can go up to 100k a year without overtime and promotion.
When you are a police officer, you have to always stay in good shape. So, during your free time, you have to train hard to keep your shape. Also, you can always do specific formations at the police academy, like for being a detective.
The main dangers of being a police officer is always putting being watched by everyone and being hate by everyone too. During an intervention, you never know who you have in front of you, and your life can be in danger sometimes. So, the danger is mainly of always being at risk on the job.
Personally, I do not think there are any chances that the police officers are replaced by robots. First of all, when you intervene with a victim, you have to create a good contact with him and that is what robots can not do because they have no empathy. Also, when you are on the job, you have to be able to be human too because everyone makes mistakes, so you can not always apply the law by the letter. You have to be human on the job!
When police officer retire, they have to be 65 years old minimum in the Surete du Québec, but they can also be entitled to an immediate pension without reduction upon departure after 25 years of service.
So, right now, I am still a student in this field of study, but I am also an investigation support agent at the Sureté du Québec. Finally, my ultimate goal in this career is becoming an investigator. But let's not get to far ahead, I will start like everyone in 2 years as a police officer.
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