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Police Officer Career Paper

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The career I have chosen is becoming a police officer. A police officer prayer “lord I ask for courage to face and conquer my own fears… courage to take me where others will not go… I ask for strength, strength of body to protect others, and strength of spirit to lead others… I ask for dedication, dedication to my job to do it well. Dedication to my community, to keep it safe, give me lord concern for others who trust me, compassion to those who need me and please lord through it all be at my side(policeman’s).” The duties of a police officer is to maintain peace and protect the people of the United States from domestic or foreign crimes and to enforce the law. I chose this career because I have always …show more content…

I do have to go to a police academy and take the academy for 13-24 months. I have to be at least 18 and financially stable to join the academy(learn). One of the police sayings quotes that I like is the police manifesto “I am the police, and I am here to arrest you, you’ve broken the law, I did not write the law , I may even disagree with the law ,but I will enforce it ,no matter how you plead, cajole, beg or attempt to stir my sympathies, nothing you do will stop me from placing you in a steel cage with grey bars, if you run away, I will chase you, if you fight me, I will fight back, if you shoot at me, I will shoot back, by law I am unable to walk away, I am a consequence, I am the unpaid bill, I am fate with a badge and a gun, behind my badge is a heart like yours, I bleed, I think, I love, and yes, I can be killed, and although I am but one man, I have thousands of brothers and sisters who are the same as me, they will lay down their lives for me, as I them, we stand watch together, a thin blue line, protecting them, from predators, the good from the bad, we are the police(police+).” this saying is one of my favorite quotes that I have

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