Name: Anshdeep Atwal

Career Name: Police Officer

1. Education required and or recommendations: Completion of secondary school is required.
Completion of a college program or university degree in law and security or in the social
sciences is
usually required. Physical agility, strength, fitness and vision requirements must be met, and
psychological or other tests may also be required.
2. Suggested Post-Secondary Institutions: SFU and KPU
3. Cost of training in Canadian $ (full program cost for all years): $28,000
4. Salary range: $40,000 to $100,000
5. Job description: Respond to emergency calls and patrol designated areas. They conduct
traffic stops,
obtain search warrants and arrest suspects of crime. After arrest or before obtaining a warrant
they are
expected to fill out any necessary paperwork, prepare cases, and testify in court.
6. Number or people employed in this occupation (indicate whether the number refers to BC or
Canada)
121,000 in Canada
7. Employment prospects: Number of police officer are expected a small amount of rise by the
year
2022.
8. Related Jobs (list at least 3):
• Probation Officer
• Security Guard

• Police Detective
9. Skills or characteristics required: A police officer's job is to problem solve to prevent
crime. Ability to
Follow Orders. Police often have to perform tasks they do not want to do. Effective
Communication
Skills.
10. Disadvantages of occupation: It is a job where
you’re faced with human misery every day. There are
extreme stressors present in the position every day. Every police officer faces the risk of injury
and
death every day.
11. Describe how your values, skills and interests relate to this career option: My passion for
helping
people and build up a strong community motivates me to become a police offer, and also the
disciplined
life through this occupation is very rewarding.
12. What courses and grades are needed to enter this occupation? English 11 and 12, any
science
courses, any math courses.
13. Working conditions: Designated patrolling areas.
14. Typical hours of work: Typically, full-time hours, and schedules often include long daily
shifts.
15. Describe what has influenced your choice of this occupation: Giving back to the community
in some
way has influenced me to get interested in law enforcement and this occupation makes an
individual
well-disciplined and teaches how to treat everyone equally.
16. What are the future trends of this occupation: The continued need for public safety is
expected to
lead to new openings for officers, although demand may vary by location.
17. List 2 points of information you felt were important and were not covered.
1. Ongoing training is so important that you can pursue an entire career path as a police
instructor or
training officer.
2. If you and 39 others chosen as a police officer for an agency, you and the 39 others will likely
go to police training academy before you
start your job.