I know it's kind of lame to ask a question like this, but I scored fairly high on my written exam, and NUKED the oral. The following is the question that I personally felt I did the worst on. I saw the interviewing officer mark '2' for it, (out of 5), and I honestly thought that was being generous.
"While preparing to leave the police academy and go home, you notice that one of your teachers, a sergeant, is filling up his private vehicle from the facilities reserves. What do you do?"
My (retarded) answer was
"uh... ... uh.... .. I would... uh... I would.. follow the protocol for the given situation.. but I'm .. .... not sure what that is... Report him to a superior I guess?"
In retrospect what I SHOULD HAVE SAID was
"I would approach him, and ask him what he was doing, and if he had permission to be doing it. I would get the details of the situation before passing any judgement, and even having done so, I would tell him that as long as it never happens again, I would not report it. There are enough people causing problems for the police, without them causing problems for each other"
What would YOU have said?
"While preparing to leave the police academy and go home, you notice that one of your teachers, a sergeant, is filling up his private vehicle from the facilities reserves. What do you do?"
My (retarded) answer was
"uh... ... uh.... .. I would... uh... I would.. follow the protocol for the given situation.. but I'm .. .... not sure what that is... Report him to a superior I guess?"
In retrospect what I SHOULD HAVE SAID was
"I would approach him, and ask him what he was doing, and if he had permission to be doing it. I would get the details of the situation before passing any judgement, and even having done so, I would tell him that as long as it never happens again, I would not report it. There are enough people causing problems for the police, without them causing problems for each other"
What would YOU have said?
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