Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers

Maintain order and protect life and property by enforcing local, tribal, state, or federal laws and ordinances. Perform a combination of the following duties: patrol a specific area; direct traffic; issue traffic summonses; investigate accidents; apprehend and arrest suspects, or serve legal processes of courts. Includes police officers working at educational institutions.

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

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

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

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

Identify, pursue, and arrest suspects and perpetrators of criminal acts.

Provide for public safety by maintaining order, responding to emergencies, protecting people and property, enforcing motor vehicle and criminal laws, and promoting good community relations.

Record facts to prepare reports that document incidents and activities.

Render aid to accident victims and other persons requiring first aid for physical injuries.

Review facts of incidents to determine if criminal act or statute violations were involved.

Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.

Monitor, note, report, and investigate suspicious persons and situations, safety hazards, and unusual or illegal activity in patrol area.

Testify in court to present evidence or act as witness in traffic and criminal cases.

Relay complaint and emergency-request information to appropriate agency dispatchers.

Monitor traffic to ensure motorists observe traffic regulations and exhibit safe driving procedures.

Database software

Microsoft Access

National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database

Spillman Technologies Records Management

Microsoft PowerPoint

Computer aided composite drawing software

DesignWare 3D EyeWitness

SmugMug Flickr

The CAD Zone The Crime Zone

IBM Lotus 1-2-3

Microsoft Excel

Email software

Microsoft Outlook

Corel WordPerfect Office Suite

Microsoft Office software

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Web browser software

ESRI ArcView

Computer aided dispatch software

Microsoft Windows

Police bicycles

Police motorcycles

Police patrol cars

Electroshock weapons

Semiautomatic pistols

Service revolvers

Base station radios

Police car radios

Metal handcuffs

Plastic handcuffs

Audio recording equipment

Digital voice recorders

Laptop computers

Mobile data computers

Blood collection kits

Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA collection kits

First aid kits

Filter masks

Teletype terminals

Police & Sheriff's Patrol Officers

My parents got divorced at a young age so I lived with my single mother who didn't have a stable income. However, it gave me motivation and the courage to go to school because I wanted to make a better life for myself and my future family.

Police Officer

People, such as family and friends told me that the job is too dangerous. Furthermore, I get a lot of disrespectful commentaries since I am a police officer and am surrounded by controversial issues and negative noise that is part of my job.

Andrea Soto

Police Officer

Milestones

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Law

Education

Helping People

Recommended Education

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Society in General:

Challenges I Overcame

Financial

Interviewed By

Anonymous Student

Andrea Soto

Police Officer

Milestones

Education

Career

Career Roadmap

My work combines:

My work combines:

Law

Education

Helping People

Recommended Education

My career is related to what I studied. I'd recommend the path I took:

Hurdles

The Noise I Shed

From Society in General:

Challenges I Overcame

Interviewed By

Anonymous Student

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