If I enlist for 3-4 years, will I have a good chance of being a Police Officer after?
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Originally posted by MCR1 View PostWell damn I'd figure a lot of LE likes people with military experience
Do NOT join the military thinking that it is an end to a Law Enforcement job-----join because you wish to serveMy new word for the day is FOCUS, when someone irritates you tell them to FOCUS
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Originally posted by Iowa #1603 View PostAll of that means absolutely nothing unless you can pass the testing , the interviews and the background investigation.
Do NOT join the military thinking that it is an end to a Law Enforcement job-----join because you wish to serve
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Originally posted by JW1812 View PostI joined the Corps because I wanted to be a Marine. Did it help me ? Yeah, probably. But if you think just by enlisting and then applying when you're fresh out of MOS school and you're going to get hired, you're wrong. Took me 2 years to get hired.
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Originally posted by Iowa #1603 View PostDo NOT join the military thinking that it is an end to a Law Enforcement job-----join because you wish to serve
“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.”
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Originally posted by MCR1 View PostI've seen it so many times...especially from Civil Service Towns.
SOME come into the process thinking they can do anything they want because they are veterans and will be hired. It's just not the way the real world works
Originally posted by MCR1 View Postbut also I think they'd hire the guy with military experience + an associate's degree than just someone with a bachelor's and no military experience.
I know of several agencies who go out of their way to NOT hired ex military---as well as several who try hard to hire nothing BUT ex military. I have experienced some new staff who were TERRIBLE to FTO because they were so ridged from their military experiences that they couldn't work without constant supervision --------------------and likewise some who you told them once and never had to worry about them again.
In Law Enforcement we hire individuals......................individuals who we feel will be good fits to our agencies & who we feel we can train to follow our procedures. Sometimes they are veterans and sometimes they are not.My new word for the day is FOCUS, when someone irritates you tell them to FOCUS
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Originally posted by MCR1 View PostIf I enlist for 3-4 years, will I have a good chance of being a Police Officer after?
Don't enlist for the benefits or because you think it will get you somewhere else. Enlist because you want to serve and then use the perks that come with that. If you do it the other way around you won't be successful in your enlistment and it will be more of a disadvantage that if you never enlisted at all.
Well damn I'd figure a lot of LE likes people with military experience
What will you bring that makes you stand out from that?Last edited by tanksoldier; 08-13-2014, 11:22 PM."I am a Soldier. I fight where I'm told and I win where I fight." -- GEN George S. Patton, Jr.
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As others have said, there is no preference points for Reserve time. Only active and normally 3 years other. You can gain active time if you are deployed. Also, an initial enlistment for Reserves is 8 years. 6 years active reserve, 2 years in the inactive reserve. If you just want to do 2-4 years and be done, go active, get your time, get maturity and experience beyond school, THEN be able to claim the preference points.
I was a reservist for my 8 years, Army, MP. Deployed to Iraq and Afghsnitan. I have no degree but many other life experience behind me. I now work a uniformed officer for a federal agency. Get yourself an education and some actual experience and you can have a good chance of getting hired. Just PLEASE dont get a Criminal Justice degree, it doesnt help. Go for Business Administration, Psycology, Sociaology, anything is better than a CJ degree since it doesnt garuntee a job in law enforcement and then where would you be? You have a fancy wall hanger that cant get you a job. Get something to fall back on just in case this career doesnt pan out. Out of all the applications, only 5% roughly will become hired by a department. Only roughly 3% will make it past FTO and become an officer and make it a career. With an approximate 97% failure rate, you may want to consider the "what if" you dont get it.
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