Police Force

Thanks for that mate. That's very useful, do you enjoy the job?

 

If you're ready to change every aspect of your life, devote you're life to the job and become everything you dis believe in then SYP is for you....

From my father, 21 years service to SYP. According to him, bar the pension the job wasnt all it's cracked up to be.

 

All police should be psychologically evaluated before being allowed anywhere near members of the general public.

 

Hi mate, I'm not a police officer (never - ed) and can't say I know a lot about the recruitment process. I would imagine that if you want to be a Bobby on the beat then a degree won't particularly give you an advantage. The police take people from all walks of life and as others have said having had a job and some good life experience can count just as much as a degree. But the police have always done graduate programmes to fast track recruits to higher positions and if that's what you want then a degree is obviously a major advantage.

But if you don't want that and your ambition is to be one of the rank and file then a degree certainly won't count against you. An education these days will put you in debt, but it is also a fantastic life experience. My four years at university were the best days of my life by a million miles. I loved it. It breaks my heart that young people are put off furthering their education because of the debt they will accrue, which means they miss out on what could be the best days of their lives. You're a long time working, they'll have probably put up the retirement age to 75 by the time you get there, and you spend that time working yourself in to the ground worrying about bills and mortgages and your kids. To have had a few years in your youth living with people your own age all wanting to get pissed and have sex with you while you open up your options to thousands of possibilities cannot be underestimated.

There's a million different routes in to the police service, but if you do a degree, join clubs and societies at the university, take part time jobs during term time, summer jobs during the holidays, voluntary positions when you have the time, travel on a work visa when you leave and generally try to live as full and varied life as possible you'll be exactly the kind of interesting person the police are looking for.

'kin 'ell, sorry for going on.

*Edit* After all that waffling, I missed out the only point I wanted to make! You may join the police force and find you don't like it. If you've got a degree, you've got something to fall back on that can open up an entirely different career.

 

You'll need a PHD in 'Making up the law as you go along'
Some technical training in 'Provoking the law abiding so you can arrest them'
and some remedial in 'How to turn resisting arrest into a corpse, in 3 easy moves'

 

That's good old SY Police. It looks like things haven't improved much since my run in with them when I was wacked in the back for having the cheek to stop to have a drink of my coffee as I was walking to my train on Sheffield Station way back in 1998. The Police need to weed the thugs out.

 

you said "BOBBY" a certain member will be all over you like a chimp on a cup cake

 

Scab...thatcherite...miner hater...

well someone on here was bound to come up with that, just thought we may as well get it out of the way. Maybe ask if you could go in and speak to an officer , or maybe take a look online. I seriously have no idea if they have recruiting offices like the Armed forces.

 

Thanks alot for that mate. Some useful information from your own experience. A degree is something i am looking at, like you say it can't do any harm.