Cover Letter: Police Department Student Internship

This paper will show four different police departments that are currently hiring or recruiting for police officers. There will be a summary on the research found on the process used to recruit police officers. It will also show their current hiring trends and what hiring practices they have that are successful or not successful. The paper will also go over the different methods departments use to train their new officers and their values.

I’m applying for the Indiana State Police internship solely because I want to learn more about policing and get a realistic feel about my possible future career. I’m currently studying Criminal Justice at the University of Southern Indiana and I’m also a Volunteer Firefighter at Perry Township Fire Dept. With me currently being a junior in college, I feel that I should know which career path I’m going towards. I’m stuck between wanting to be a Police Officer and wanting to be a career Firefighter. I’ve done two ride alongs within the past two years. One with a Vanderburgh County Sheriff and another with a city officer in Jasper, Indiana. Those ride alongs were somewhat helpful but I’m wanting to gain more experience than just 10 hours in a patrol car. I want to learn all the in’s and out’s including what happens in the office, dispatch, and

As the internship program and the training intended, I have learned much related to my major, Criminal Justice. This internship helped me to acknowledge that qualified, knowledgeable professionals are needed by our complex society to define, administer, and put our rules and standards into force. Like jobs in any other field, to work in the field of law requires expertise. Trained experts are the most desirable to be hired by organizations, tasked to manage justice, to direct their operations. By writing articles for the legal website, I learned to assess law enforcement situations orderly. I learned to make use of the basic legal and management theories to analyze the situations. I got the opportunity to show my understanding of the key process in the U.S. criminal justice system. I also learned to combine approaches from management, law, and the behavioral science to apply them to the situations I was studying.

I hope to help advocate for youth and help them access the resources they need to promote public wellbeing. I would like an opportunity to interview for the Juvenile Detention Officer position. Thank you for your consideration and I look forward to hearing from you. Feel free to contact me at 509-990-4613, or via email at

As a Jackson Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corp Cadet and Police Explorer, upon acceptance of this scholarship I will be able to contribute to society. How might you ask? Throughout my high school career I was taught the value of serving and protecting the community. “Integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we do” was the motto taught to me by the AF Jr. ROTC program . “Class two line of blue law enforcement through and through” was the motto taught to be by the Youth police academy. These motto’s reflect everything that I stand for, everything that I believe in. That if I was ever to gained the privilege of

To achieve success in becoming a Special Agent, or any career in law enforcement, there are a number of experiences, both academic and practical in nature I need to engage in before I receive my undergraduate degree. First, I need to develop a foundational knowledge of federal laws, regulations and various policies necessary to become a well-rounded applicant for consideration by the FBI. A comprehensive understanding of these laws, and their practical relevance to society, will ensure I possess the aptitude to capably handle myself and command compliance by the public to lawful orders I am charged to enforce. I plan on accomplishing this through not only my studies, but through political internships. I plan on spending a semester working on a political campaign for a presidential candidate; I hope to be in Washington, D.C. for this internship for I believe that our nation’s capital is the place to be in order to be fully immersed in politics. Second, I plan on contacting the FBI agency in Gainesville and investigating if they have internships that I can be apart of. However, if no such opportunities are available at that time, I will ask various questions about the FBI hiring process in order to gain greater insight. Third, I am planning to attain a semester-long internship with the University Police Department. I believe that this internship would further increase my knowledge about law enforcement practices through accompanying an officer to various details and

I am honored to the opportunity to internship at the Bibb County Sheriff Department supervised by Cindy Gresham, the executive assistant of this agencies. Historically, there were two agencies ensuring public safety in Bibb County, The Bibb County Sheriff Department and the Macon Police Department. There were five attempts to consolidate the two agencies, but consolidation was unsuccessful. However in 2003, the two agencies were consolidated into one unified government formally known as the “The Bibb County Sheriff Department.” This consolidations prompted a complete reconstruction of the unified agencies. There were new policies and rankings implemented and the creation of a newly organized board. This paper will explain the mission of the agency, the types of services provided, sources of revenue, the administration and organization structure, and community resources utilized.

As an intern at Juvenile Service Department, I work with the CCP and JASS programs. I am responsible for getting in contact with the youth and family to schedule appointments for services. I conduct the intake assessments, and Youth Level of Service assessment to see which services will be effective for the

My previous experience working as Student Worker for the College of Business Undergraduate Office at

I am a highly committed, loyal, enthusiastic, hard-working and persevering individual. I enjoy physical and mental tasks that challenge me and encourage me to handle an out of the box approach. For the Youth In Policing Summer Initiative, I will bring my strong communication skills, my ability to work independently and within a team environment, my active and outgoing personality along with my willingness to learn and provide a valuable service to our

I am a third-year student at Seton Hall University and I am writing to you with great enthusiasm regarding the internship opportunity with the non-profit organization, the National Urban League. I learned about the position during my winter break, as I wanted to use my leadership and interpersonal skills in working for a well-respected organization that dealt with issues that I consider important, which is improving African-Americans lives.

As of January 24, 2017, of my spring semester at Saint Peters University, I began my internship with the Jersey City Police Department(JCPD). The JCPD is comprised of four districts: East, North, South, and west, throughout their precinct. Jersey City is a relatively large and diverse community, so in fact a range of departments are much needed throughout the city. From the time, I lived in Jersey City, the Jersey City police department has continuously ensured a progressive partnership with the community. The JCPD rely solely on four principles: Courtesy, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. Each of these principles are imbedded in ensuring a level fairness and equality throughout the community. Indeed, this level of partnership has driven

This fall I will have graduated with a bachelor’s degree from the University of Central Oklahoma School of Criminal Justice. In the past three years I have taken several class in criminal justice from teachers who are very passionate about what they teach. The information professors presented caused me to think about issues and careers in the criminal justice field. The professors reflected on their experiences making difficult subjects interesting and exciting. It would be an advantage to continue learning from these professors that keep the subject matter interesting and relevant.

I wanted to be a parole officer but as a correctional officer I quickly realized that many offenders gravitated towards me as a mentor even though I was very young. I begin to pull the offenders who often gave me a lot of trouble out one on one and realized that they just wanted to express their frustrations on the mistakes that they had made that changed their lives forever. At that moment I knew that I still wanted to help people make better decisions in life but not as a correctional officer and I begin to notice counselors visiting the offenders in church. I saw how the offenders express themselves in church and it made me realize how they were just as much human as I was. I made the choice to become a social worker ultimately after experiencing

During my internship experience I was able to learn how the Sheriff Department division has their own methods on how they perform their services such as their job duties, policies, and operations and how they differ from other agencies. The police is charge of the city limits and the sheriff is in control of the county roads which are outside the city limits but there jurisdiction only covers public county roads not private roads for example, during my ride along there was a complaint that was complaining about four wheelers making a lot of noise down the road due to the road being private the deputy advise her that the road has to be own by the county and he couldn’t do anything. During my ride along I was able to make observations on how