| My son is a senior student in High school now. We | | | | started a four year criminal justice program at |
| had filled some financial assistance forms because | | | | the university which would enable him to get |
| we want to make sure he will be able to have | | | | better jobs once he graduated. He also added |
| secondary education. Though, my son has not | | | | that in the past police officers could go with the |
| decided yet what collage he wanted to attend or | | | | eighteen month course of law enforcement |
| what subject to choose. Thus, I got really | | | | training but as nowadays the crimes are more |
| surprised one day when my son came from | | | | complex it is recommended that all officers have |
| school and declared he wanted to start law | | | | a four year degree in addition to the law |
| enforcement training. His best friend's father was | | | | enforcement training. My son was listening to his |
| a police officer and my son has been secretly | | | | best friend's father very carefully and |
| interested in this job for years. Unfortunately I | | | | remembered the information he gave us. My son |
| didn't know anything about law enforcement | | | | also conducted further research. First of all, he |
| training so I needed to get more information | | | | needed to decide if he would start the law |
| about it. This is why I invited my son's friend and | | | | enforcement training immediately and then take |
| his parents for dinner. That way we could talk | | | | the college courses, or the opposite - first college |
| with the police officer and find out where is the | | | | then the law enforcement training. He set up a |
| best place to get law enforcement training. It was | | | | meeting with he local sheriff to discuss this. |
| interesting to learn there are so many specialty | | | | The sheriff advised him to take the basic law |
| areas to look into. The father of my son's best | | | | enforcement training first because with it he could |
| friend had started with an eighteen month course | | | | work part time while being at college. He could |
| of law enforcement training in a college. After his | | | | have flexible shifts as police officers are needed |
| course the only job he could get with that | | | | 24 hours a day seven days a week, so he |
| qualification was as a patrol officer. | | | | wouldn't need to cut classes because of work. |
| From the law enforcement training he completed | | | | Another reason why it is better to start with the |
| he had learnt the basic techniques of being a | | | | law enforcement training is because after you |
| police officer including weapons training. However, | | | | complete it and start working and studying same |
| to become a detective a more advanced training | | | | time you will have work experience which will help |
| was required - a four year college degree. He | | | | you decide what area you want to concentrate |
| took a part time job as a patrol officer and | | | | on. |