Why Do You Want To Be A Police Officer Essay

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    values do you think police officer should have? Asking a potential police officer about their mindset on what an officer’s values are vital. This particular question seeks the motivation on why a person would want to be a police officer. They should understand that they have a responsibility to serve the public and to work towards the mission and goals of the police department they are serving. There are expectations from the public that police officers follow and abide by these values. 2. Why do you

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    Police Officers Police Officers serve and protect the citizens in their community but are seen as criminals who get away with everything. We have disesteemed their true character behind their badge. Because we are only exposed to the wrongdoing of the officer. We all see them as the killers, pigs, the people who eat donuts all day. We only assume their bad character due to their split second decision but we don't see the braveness and the risk taking of the officer. If a police officer stops a different

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    used as a slang term by the police, what it means is police perjury or a false testimony, the use for testilying is to tell someone that they had done something even though they did not, this is to make the person feel as if they had been caught, although some suspects will deny that they had done the crime. The book explains that misconducting someone is rare, because at some point they will find out someone who has done the crime. The problem with testilying is that police stretch the truth in order

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    “A now-former area police chief face public corruption charges. He was accused of using a city credit card to pay for a trip to Hawaii” (John 2014). Police officers have done a lot of wrong things in the past, some examples are: gratuities, bribery, and brutality. Although there are plenty of instances where the officer is not wrong, and the civilians are in the wrong. Some people wonder what exactly leads a police officer to bribery, and some bribery cases are civilians lying. A large solution to

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    Police Officer By:Ansley Waters Why I want to do this job is because you get a lot of money if you go to work everyday. Another reason why I want to do that job is because you have to arrest them, you also have to investigate crime and you have to fight down crime. There are several bits of information about being a police officer like salary, and education. The education you need to be a police officer is that you need a high school diploma. You have to go to school for 2-4 years

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    Why I Want To Be A Cop

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    For my career I chose to be a cop. I want to be a cop because I want to work outside and inside. I also want to be a cop because you get paid well. Some of my relatives are police officers and I want to do what they do. I like to make people do the right thing. One of the reasons I don’t want to be a cop is because it’s dangerous sometimes. These are many of the reasons I want to be a cop. I will be getting into more of the details of a cop in the rest of my paper. This paragraph will be about

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    org/wiki/Police_officer | Interview Project Proposal | | Police officer | Interview Project Proposal Police officer 1 Name: Vince Ventrone Job: police officer at the Jacksonville sheriff office (for 20years) 2 Name: Steven Mungan Job: swc officer (also a police officer) The reason I choose these people is it has the only people that come close to what I going to do. It was the only people I could find. I called the police stations and no one would call me back. Everyone I talk to said

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    It is an early Saturday morning. It’s the first day of the academy and an officer already yelling at you saying “ Who told you you could be a cop?”. Heart beats fast from being nervous and not knowing to expect next. These people have chosen to put their life at risk; but say it’s a worthy cost because they say “we protect, we serve”. When I was a high schooler, I always wanted to help the community. I wanted to be more than a volunteer for the communities, I wanted a job that I could prevent crimes

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    What if you hear someone screaming and see a person getting abused during the arrest? This is why officers should wear body cameras to see if the evidence is true or not. Many may argue, that having body cameras would invade peoples privacy in there personal life. But when the police officers behavior is wrong and he is assaulting the person he is arresting how would he be invading your privacy. But it will be showing the evidence of the individual and how everything was going at that time during

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    questions came to mind either about the area you are interested in or different areas? I had a couple questions referring back to the career I want to pursue. I want to know if I can be a police officer and a probation officer during the same time? I also want to know where would a probation officer recommend me to go to school at once I transfer out of CCC? What is a typical day for a probation officer? Do they enjoy being a probation officer? Why or why not? How can a person become an FBI agent?

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