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Law Enforcement : Law And Order

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Law and Order Although televisions shows the easy, excited, and fun side of Law Enforcement, there is so much more to the job. Law Enforcement is very complex but must needed position in society. Officers are real life heroes in our communities. Education is very important to any profession and I plan to use my education to rise to the higher ranks in investigation department in Law Enforcement. My past experiences in Criminal Justice, learning the requirements and the benefits of a Law Enforcement Officer will be the result of receiving my degree in Criminal Justice at South University. I had no experience in law enforcement when I first got my job in the sheriff department. In the year of 2005, I saw an ad the local sheriff’s …show more content…

I had to climb a wall, run for a particular distance, be able to use a gun and drag a mannequin that implicated dead weight of a human body. The final test before the interview with the board was the polygraph exam. Although I had nothing sketchy in my past, I was so fearful taking that exam, Becoming a deputy was very exciting. After I received my acceptance letter and start date, I knew it was official. My first part of training was not in the academy. I had to experience all aspects of the sheriff departments. In the department I worked for, we dealt with civil service, courts, and the local jails. In the courts, I had to escort the defendants to and from court, protect the attendants in the court, including the judge, and process the paperwork. In civil service, I had to serve warrants, evictions, and subpoenas, working in the jail was a little more complex. It was extremely harder to get adjusted. I worked 12 plus hour shifts. I was not able to leave the premises. It felt as if I was locked in there. The mail jail did not have windows and it was very scary, the inmates were not the only scary part, it was the feeling of not being able to leave. The jails were filled with hardcore criminals, drug addicts, drug dealers, thieves, child molesters, child murderers, innocent people, physical disabled, and mental disabled people. It was extremely hard to not become bias, bitter, hard, sensitive, or hard to not

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