Originally Posted by
lemaymiami
I did 22 years in police work and was lucky enough to rise in rank during those years... At one point I was in charge of personnel functions for my 100 man agency and as a result got to interview many young candidates for police officer, both male and female... As a rule candidates with military service were head and shoulders above the others - no matter how well educated the other candidates might have been... so they were the first ones we considered if possible.... The only candidates with a better chance at being hired were those that brought additional languages to the table (and we needed every language under the sun -not just the spanish you'd expect in south Florida..).
Nothing like military service to mature and give a sense of discipline and responsibility in my opinion. Yes, you can obtain it "elsewhere" but the military does it much quicker and better. Veterans as a group are just head and shoulders above folks who've spent all their years in school with very minor real world experience....
I have no idea how policing selects their candidates these days since I retired out in 1995....