How do I go about becoming a Detective for my cities Police Force? I'm 25 and have a bachelor's degree,
>>29295444
Where you live OP
>>29295537
Cincinnati, Ohio.
>>29295444
>How do I go about becoming a Detective for my cities Police Force?
Go to the academy, make it through your time with the FTO, walk/drive a beat for 5 to 10 years. During this time, apply. Also apply for additional skill training and special teams.
>I'm 25 and have a bachelor's degree,
This is irrelevant, unless you're going into an agency where the minimum is a four year degree.
>>29295444
>>29295565
You become a cop. Although your city was just looking for applicants. Not sure how fast their turn around is but if it's like the cities I applied or am applying to prepare to wait. Although Cincinnatti isn't that big.
Gonna have to be a beat cop for about 10 years first
>>29296005
>>29296962
Does Military Police count?
I've done drugs, and have looked at questionable things in the past...a-am i gonna make it?
Is that a Demon Hunter patch
>>29297187
Yes.
>>29295444
Join the police force.
>>29297345
pls elaborate
>>29296981
Military police would help you during interview stage.
>>29297334
Yes.
>>29297187
>I've done drugs
when was the last time
>>29295444
do it!
>>29297187
Move to Oregon. They never ask and you never have to tell.
>>29297182
This.
They aren't going to give a shit that you checked IDs at the gate or gave tickets to people walking and talking on their cell phones.
>>29297187
1) how good are you at lying?
2) how long ago were they?
3) is it written down somewhere official?
you will get hair tested, fingerprinted, interrogated, polygraphed, and headshrunk
if you did something wrong don't volunteer it (but you have to be able to lie like hell)
if drugs were recent don't bother
if it isn't written down it didn't happen
they will dig through as many records as possible and talk to all the people you put down as references. naturally you should tell those references to not say anything bad. for that matter don't put anyone who you think is going to fess up to something stupid you did together or who you told you did.
it's ironic that you either have to be a saint or really good at lying to get into the police
>>29298277
and the interrogator and polygrapher are not your friend. they will try to sound like they are but their job is to be total assholes and get you to fuck up. most of them actually are assholes in real life be it a byproduct of having to play one or because they are. keep that in mind.
>>29298277
>3) is it written down somewhere official?
Several years ago, it's in my military records tho..
>>29298472
what is it and how old?
I actually don't know if police get access to mil records (probably not) but the main thing is that they want you to be "reformed" and "not about that life anymore." the interrogator can pretty much eliminate you for any reason they want.
>>29295444
>become a cop
>devote every day night and weekend to it
>never see your family or have any kind of social life
>after 5-10 years sell yourself to internal affairs or undercover for another 3 to 4 years
>maybe be a petty crimes detective
source: both parents NYPD one of whom made detective. trying to be a florida cop myself
>>29296981
Depends, we're you investigations while you were in? We're you ever part of osi? If no then not really, it will help to become a normal cop in most places but not to be a detective
>>29297187
Really depends
Here, they expect that you've smoked dope and done some stupid shit in your life
They are okay with it provided you weren't a regular user, didn't do hard drugs, haven't done it (or committed any crime) in the past several years, and have generally reformed
>>29298664
Getting detective has more to do with big cases, the lawyers, and high tier ass kissing than any of what you're talking about. You can still get picked to be a detective by merit, but it will take you close to 10 years, and you'd need someone with some weight helping you out. There's also often multiple branches of detectives doing different types of cases, so by nature some are less exclusive than others. For what it's worth regular street dicks are some of the most corrupt motherfuckers you will ever meet.
The detective rank 2-1 are the guys that care about their career and want to play the political game. Ironically working eith the feds will get you a lot of cred within the NYPD. FBI does also recruit from NYPD detectives sometimes, so I guess it's kind of a reciprocal dickwave or something. I have a lot of NYPD detectives in my family, particularly the 34th.
Honestly, I'd imagine not being able to gather this info from your local PD's "homepage" and/or google does not build my confidence in you passing the detective's exam.
>>29295444
Get older and have seniority, and don't be completely retarded and incompetent.
This thread helped a lot so far.
Currently working towards a masters degree in Social Anthropology, but I fear it's not of great use in the general sense.
I've been considering joining the Harmful Occult-Related Crime Unit, seeing as my field specializes in investigating these occurrences within a social and cultural context. But I don't feel like remaining a researcher is of any use, whereas being a detective I can actually commit to stopping malpractices and atrocities committed in my country.
Link related for some context:
http://www.vice.com/read/satanic-panic-the-history-of-south-africas-specialised-anti-occult-police-unit-394
>>29295565
Cincy? hope you aint white, you will have to score 15-20 points higher on the written exam than split tails and redguards just to get a call back. See, after Cincy gives the written exam for it's police force, it issues three cutoff scores, one for whites, one for blacks, and one for females, and oh yea, black females are on both lists, so they have two shots at a call back. I tried to get on with the Cincy police fore years ago. No joke, the black cut off score was like 10+ points lower than what I scored and I still didn't get a call back because the evil white male cutoff score was 5 points higer than what I got on the test. It was a interesting time when I was trying to become a cop. The PDs in the Cincy area that didn't have race based hiring? When you walked in to take their tests, it was all white, all male. Any dept that had a pref for blacks and females, all kinds of people were there. Only thing that stopped me was a slight case of colorblindness.
>>29295444
take written test, get call back for physical, get call back for lie detector, get call back for interview and background check. start at the acadamy, pass academy, become probationary cop for 18-24 months. After probbationary period ends, take promotion tests, meet whatever minimums your dept has for applying to the various det squads. Oh yea, your bachelor's degree really doesn't mean shit if it's a crim-just degree. Computers and psychology are what they want for the specialized squads.
So, from beat cop dealing with redguards every day to suit wearing detective, figure 5 years min?
>>29296981
>Military Police
>Flashlight cop of the Army
no
>>29299397
I know they like people who have degrees, as it shows they are capable of undertaking the rigors of tertiary education, but I was always under the assumption that the degree itself didn't matter, as they they had their own training regime of the detectives if you were to be selected for it.
