Starting as a police officer.

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Paul Bujold

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Choice count: 27

Section count: 20

Image count: 20

Error count: 0

Field Related Analysis

Police-Technology : 83 matches

(arrest, crash, gun, in custody, jail, knife, patrol, police, police academy, police car, police officer, sirens, uniform, victim)

Education : 61 matches

(academy, choice, first, general, grades, head, learn, learning, points, report, review, taught, trainee, training, vocabulary, writing)

Paramedics : 58 matches

(ambulance, calls, crash, hospital, medical, partner, report, review, shift, sign, sleep, trained, trainee, treatment, uniform, vehicle, paramedics)

Target Structure: (6 matches)

bias (1 match)

drawback (2 matches)

ins-and-outs (2 matches)

ojt (3 matches)

trainee (2 matches)

wage (4 matches)

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Starting as a police officer.

You have an interview to become a police officer.

You have been called for your job interview at the police of Montreal after you applied to become a police officer. You have an important choice to make: be professional at your interview or trying to be funny during your interview.

Choice 1 : Be professional at your interview.

Choice 2 : Trying to be funny during your interview.

Interview

Be professional at your interview.

At your interview, you decide to be a professional interviewee. You are well-dressed, you use a very good vocabulary related to the police world, and you show a lot of interest into the job. The interviewers are stunned and decide to hire you on the spot. You will be starting on Monday with another police officer that will train you. They give you a choice: you either get trained by an old police officer that has been there for 30 years, or you get trained by a young police officer that has been there for 5 years.

Choice 1 : You get trained by an old police officer that has been there for 30 years.

Choice 2 : You get trained by a young police officer that has been there for 5 years.

Interview

Trying to be funny during your interview.

At your job interview, the interviewer tells you that he is stunned by your application. You have had the best grades at the police academy, and you were a police cadet at the police of Montreal during all of your studies. You are well-dressed and use an excellent vocabulary. However, at some point during the interview, you start making jokes. Your interviewer doesn't find it funny at all. He explains to you that you must be professional to become a police officer, and it's not the time to make jokes when you are in an interview. He tells you that he is highly disappointed and that you are not going to be hired today. However, since your application is very good, he gives you another chance: you have to interview again. Your interview is in 2 weeks.

Choice 1 : You have an interview to become a police officer.

Interview

You get trained by an old police officer that has been there for 30 years.

The old police officer is your trainer. You have an OJT at the police of Montreal. You are working in Montreal as a police rookie. For a rookie, your wage is pretty interesting. Believe it or not, you did so well at your interview that you get the same wage as your trainer. The only drawback of being a trainee for you is the fact that you kind of look shy and insecure during your first month. You take more time learning the ins-and-outs while others make it pretty quickly. However, your trainer doesn't like the new ways rookies are trained. He tells you that he will give you a bad review because you are not rude enough with citizens. In his opinion, kind police officers end up dying on the job.

Choice 1 : You have an interview to become a police officer.

Old police officer

You get trained by a young police officer that has been there for 5 years.

The old police officer is your trainer. You have an OJT at the police of Montreal. You are working in Montreal as a police rookie. For a rookie, your wage is pretty interesting. Believe it or not, you did so well at your interview that you get the same wage as your trainer. The only drawback of being a trainee for you is the fact that you kind of look shy and insecure during your first month. You take more time learning the ins-and-outs while others make it pretty quickly. However, your training goes amazingly well, you don't deal with any bias of some sort and your learning is efficient. Your trainer loves your work and your kindness. You remind her when she started as a rookie. In general, you do a very good job and your trainer tells you that you have all the qualities to become an excellent police officer. After your OJT is done, you can decide to stay with your trainer that will now be your partner, or you can work by yourself.

Choice 1 : You decide to stay with your trainer that will now be your partner.

Choice 2 : You decide to work by yourself.

Young police officer

You decide to stay with your trainer that will now be your partner.

Your former trainer and new partner is very happy that you decided to choose her as your partner. She says that you are the best rookie she has ever had, and it will be a pleasure to work with you. Since you are not a rookie anymore, she lets you drive. You start your day by getting a coffee for both of you, and you park in the parking lot of the fast food. It is a pretty calm morning, there are no calls for now. Once you finish your coffee, you have two choices: you can have a nap in your car while your partner checks if there is any call coming up, or you can patrol the streets and use your time to ensure that everything is alright.

Choice 1 : You decide to have a nap in your car while your partner checks if there is any call coming up.

Choice 2 : You decide to patrol the streets and use your time to ensure that everything is alright.

Police car

You decide to work by yourself.

Since you are working by yourself and you, are tired because it is early in the morning, you decide to get a coffee to start your shift. After you finish your coffee, you decide to get out of your police car to put the garbage in the trash. As you get back to your vehicle, you hear a crowd of teenagers saying "fight, fight, fight". You turn your head, and you see ten 16-year-old guys hitting one 14-year-old guy. You have two choices: you try to stop them by yourself, or you call for back-up first.

Choice 1 : You try to stop them by yourself.

Choice 2 : You call for back-up first.

Teenagers fighting

You decide to have a nap in your car while your partner checks if there is any call coming up.

You are lucky: no call is coming up. You were so tired that you slept during your whole shift and your partner never wakes you up because you seem tired, and she is writing a report for the arrest she didn't have the time to finish yesterday. However, someone took a picture of you sleeping during your shift, and you get in trouble. To punish you, the director of the police of Montreal tells you that you have to get through the whole process again because you clearly aren't aware of how unacceptable it is to sleep on your job.

Choice 1 : You have an interview to become a police officer.

Police officer sleeping

You decide to patrol the streets and use your time to ensure that everything is alright.

You patrol the streets with your partner and, at a stop sign, you hear a crowd of teenagers saying "fight, fight, fight". You turn your head, and you see ten 16-year-old guys hitting one 14-year-old guy. You turn on your lights and sirens, and you get to the street where the fight is occurring as fast as you can. You only have to turn one corner, and you will be there. You can see the fight from where you are. However, there is a lot of traffic. You have two choices: you park your car, and you run towards the fight, or you go on the sidewalk with your car to get to the fight.

Choice 1 : You park your car, and you run towards the fight.

Choice 2 : You go on the sidewalk with your car to get to the fight.

Police car responding to a call with lights and sirens

You try to stop them by yourself.

You stand no chance in front of ten teenagers. They end up hitting you as well and your head hits the ground. You push your panic button and 30 police cars come to your location. They put the teenagers in custody and call for an ambulance for you and the 14-year-old guy that was being hit too. You stay a lot of time at the hospital to recover, and you have to go through the whole process again because you were absent for too long.

Choice 1 : You have an interview to become a police officer.

Ambulance

You call for back-up first.

You call for back-up before running to the fight. The first car is fast to get to your localization. You notice that your back-up is your former trainer, and she will be your partner for this fight. You both run towards the group of teenagers and other police officers get to your localization fast. You are able to arrest the 10 teenagers and get an ambulance for the victim. You are so happy to see your former trainer that you decide to spend the rest of the day patrolling with her.

Choice 1 : You continue patrolling with your partner.

Police arresting a suspect

You park your car, and you run towards the fight.

You both run towards the group of teenagers and other police officers get to your localization fast. You are able to arrest the 10 teenagers and get an ambulance for the victim. You and your partner did an amazing job together, and you are so happy to see that you have an outstanding chemistry.

Choice 1 : You continue patrolling with your partner.

Police arresting a suspect

You go on the sidewalk with your car to get to the fight.

Unfortunately, you crash into a tree with your car because the sidewalk is way too small for your police car. The director of the police of Montreal tells you that it was not a good choice that you had considering you could have parked and ran towards the fight. He tells you that you have go through the whole process again, so you learn from your mistake.

Choice 1 : You have an interview to become a police officer.

Crashed police car

You continue patrolling with your partner.

As you get back on patrol, you get a call for a woman holding a knife, and screaming that she will kill anybody that will come close to her. Since you are new to the job, you haven't had a taser yet. However, your partner does. You arrive on the scene, and you get two choices: you point your gun at the woman and your partner points her taser at her, or you both point your guns at the woman holding a wife.

Choice 1 : You point your gun at the woman and your partner points her taser at her.

Choice 2 : You both point your guns at the woman holding a wife.

Police car

You point your gun at the woman and your partner points her taser at her.

You did exactly what you were taught at the police academy: one officer has a lethal force and another one has a non-lethal force. The woman starts running towards you with her knife and your partner uses her taser on her. You put your gun back in its holster, and you put the woman in custody. Now, you have two choices: you either take her to jail or you call an ambulance since she seems intoxicated and requires medical help.

Choice 1 : You take her to jail.

Choice 2 : You call an ambulance since she seems intoxicated and requires medical help.

Pointing taser

You both point your guns at the woman holding a wife.

Unfortunately, the woman doesn't listen to you, and she runs towards your partner. You notice that your partner hesitates to shoot, so you shoot the woman before she hurts your partner. You call an ambulance for the woman, but sadly, she's already dead. The director of the police of Montreal tells you that you should have not shot the woman and that a taser should have been used. To learn from your actions, you have to start the whole process again.

Choice 1 : You have an interview to become a police officer.

Police officer holding a gun

You take her to jail.

You take the woman to jail, but she dies in your car from her intoxication. The director of the police of Montreal tells you that you should have called an ambulance for her and tells you that you have the start the whole process again to learn from your mistake.

Choice 1 : You have an interview to become a police officer.

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You call an ambulance since she seems intoxicated and requires medical help.

The ambulance comes very fast to your localization and the paramedics are able to make it to the hospital fast enough to give her treatment. She was then sent to a program that helps people to stop drugs. You and your partner are proud of yourselves, and you decide to get back to the police station. After you took your uniform off, you get to your car. Before you leave, your partner runs to you and tells you that she fell in love with you.

Choice 1 : You tell her you love her back.

Choice 2 : You tell her you don't love her back, but you can still stay friends.

Female police officer

You tell her you love her back.

You end up marrying her and having 3 beautiful kids together.

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Wedding

You tell her you don't love her back, but you can still stay friends.

She accepts to stay friends with her, and you stay partners until the end of your careers. You get a lot of awards for your good work, and you retire in peace. You stay best friends for ever.

Write a choice here.

Best friends