Sunday, December 17, 2006

Especially Constabled

Now that that is out of the way, I can go into what I have been doing all this time.
Not much. Going to class, learning how to be a police officer. We also got the chance to goto the court houses in Toronto, twice. In my opinion if you're wanting to go into a field of law enforcement this place is the best to start going to learn how all the stuff you've learned in the book is applied. We had the chance to see quite a few interesting cases. There were robberies, assaults, and murder. It was by far very beneficial to what we were doing. This brings me into the next topic. What I've have decided to do after I graduate from this course with a college diploma. I've decided to work as a Court Officer in Toronto for a while to gain experience and network a little to possibly increase my chances of becoming a full fledged Police Officer. The court officers are known as, "Special Constables" because they have the powers of a police officer, but only in the courts and during their shift. Whereas, a police officer has their powers 24/7. None the less it will be great experience and since I will be working for the Toronto Police. The move to a Police Officer will almost be a lateral move for me. I have also heard that they hire especially from the Court Officers, seeing as they have most of the knowledge of a police officer and know the procedures and how to exercise their powers within the law. The great bonus about it all is that its a Monday to Friday job, working normal day hours and I would work only 4 weekends out of the year. This is indeed, quite a sweet deal. Oh! Did I mention that the pay is great too ?
So I'm quite excited about that venture. Hopefully I'll be able to do it.
And that my friends is an account of my whereabouts and decisions of these past couple weeks.

That ends this episode! Stay tuned for our next installment! Same bad time, same bad channel.

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