ROTC stands for Reserve Officer Training Corps and prepares young adults to become officers in the U.S. Military. Look into joining your schools ROTC to learn valuable skills outside the classroom. 

Career

Join your school's ROTC. 

Enroll in a criminal justice class at your school, in your city, or online and explore the different elements of the field. Is this something you would be interested in majoring in?

Education

Take a class in criminal justice.

Contact your local department to find out the requirements and process for going on a ride-along with an officer. Get first-hand experience & see if this career would interest you! 

Go on a ride-along with an officer!

Supervisors of Police and Detectives

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of members of police force.

Enterprising occupations frequently involve starting up and carrying out projects. These occupations can involve leading people and making many decisions. Sometimes they require risk taking and often deal with business.

Enterprising

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Social occupations frequently involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people. These occupations often involve helping or providing service to others.

Social

Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.

Conventional

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Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.

Realistic

Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.

Investigative

Artistic occupations frequently involve working with forms, designs and patterns. They often require self-expression and the work can be done without following a clear set of rules.

Artistic

Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed

First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives

First-Line Supervisors of Law Enforcement Workers

Protective Service Occupations

Supervisors of Protective Service Workers

Explain police operations to subordinates to assist them in performing their job duties.

Inform personnel of changes in regulations and policies, implications of new or amended laws, and new techniques of police work.

Supervise and coordinate the investigation of criminal cases, offering guidance and expertise to investigators, and ensuring that procedures are conducted in accordance with laws and regulations.

Investigate and resolve personnel problems within organization and charges of misconduct against staff.

Train staff in proper police work procedures.

Maintain logs, prepare reports, and direct the preparation, handling, and maintenance of departmental records.

Monitor and evaluate the job performance of subordinates, and authorize promotions and transfers.

Direct collection, preparation, and handling of evidence and personal property of prisoners.

Develop, implement and revise departmental policies and procedures.

Conduct raids and order detention of witnesses and suspects for questioning.

Prepare work schedules and assign duties to subordinates.

Discipline staff for violation of department rules and regulations.

Cooperate with court personnel and officials from other law enforcement agencies and testify in court as necessary.

Review contents of written orders to ensure adherence to legal requirements.

Inspect facilities, supplies, vehicles, and equipment to ensure conformance to standards.

Prepare news releases and respond to police correspondence.

Requisition and issue equipment and supplies.

Meet with civic, educational, and community groups to develop community programs and events, and to discuss law enforcement subjects.

Prepare budgets and manage expenditures of department funds.

35 millimeter cameras

Audio recording equipment

Automated external defibrillators AED

Base station radios

Biohazard suits

Body armor

Breathalyzers

Bulletproof vests

Crime scene tape measures

Desktop computers

Digital cameras

Digital video cameras

Distance measuring wheels

Drug testing kits

Explosive detectors

Filter masks

Fingerprint evidence kits

Fingerprint scanners

First aid kits

Laptop computers

Metal detectors

Metal handcuffs

Mobile data computers

Multi-line telephone systems

Multipurpose fire extinguishers

Nightsticks

Noise meters

Pepper spray

Personal computers

Plastic handcuffs

Police motorcycles

Police patrol cars

Police rifles

Police shotguns

Radar speed readers

Radio scanners

Remote traffic signal controllers

Riot shields

Road flares

Semiautomatic handguns

Semiautomatic pistols

Service revolvers

Side-handle batons

Surveillance binoculars

Suspect fingerprinting equipment

Teletype terminals

Two way radios

Computer aided composite drawing software

Corel WordPerfect Office Suite

Crime mapping software

Data entry software

DesignWare 3D EyeWitness

Email software

Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System IAFIS

Law enforcement information databases

Microsoft Access

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Microsoft Office

Microsoft PowerPoint

Microsoft Visio

Microsoft Word

National Crime Information Center NCIC database

National Integrated Ballistics Information Network NIBIN

Scheduling software

SmartDraw.com SmartDraw Legal

Spillman Technologies Records Management

The CAD Zone The Crime Zone

Police Commissioner

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Ray Kelly

Police Commissioner

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Ray Kelly

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