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Some of you may or may not know that i spend some of my time each work dedicated to the fight against and prevention of crime. I am a member of the special constabulary, in short i'm a police officer. I wear the uniform and have all the duties of a regular copper. The only real differences are i only do about 8hours a week, don't get paid and cannot do any firearms training! Many of you will question my sanity, i mean being a policeman let alone not getting paid for it, To those of you who do i can only hint at how rewarding it has been for me. Yeah i get some stick about it and i've lost a few friends, but then again were they good friends to start with?! I get a feeling of pride and self-fullfillment when i help resolve a situation, i feel good that instead of whinging about how bad society is i'm trying to help do something about it. I've met some damned fine people along the way, it's giving me a good insight and advantage towards my chosen career, it's given me new awareness of what really goes on and it has helped pull me out of my shell and into the big, bad, old world. I shall stop droning on about it but would like to add that:
Volunteering isn't a dirty word! and that it can help you as much as other people.
edited cause like a twit i spelt it-in! doh.
All evil needs to thrive is for good men to sit back and do nothing
[This message has been edited by Marmite (edited 05-12-2001).]
Volunteering isn't a dirty word! and that it can help you as much as other people.
edited cause like a twit i spelt it-in! doh.
All evil needs to thrive is for good men to sit back and do nothing
[This message has been edited by Marmite (edited 05-12-2001).]
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All evil needs to thrive is for good men to sit back and do nothing
Not to mention it can allow you to develop skills that you may need to have or use in your chosen career. Employers always like to get something for nothing.
Great stuff marmite.
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[This message has been edited by Squinty (edited 04-12-2001).]
Well there are plenty of others in my age group, both specials and regulars. I got into it because of my interest in the police(my mums fault cause of all those damned tv programmes!), i thought it would be good insight into it(basically trying the job without totally comiting myself to it) and would look good on my application form <IMG alt="image" SRC="http://www.thesite.org/ubb/biggrin.gif"> I would highly recommend it to anyone considering a career in anything law related. I think the sad fact is that the majority of the specials are older because they tend to care more about society than the younger generations do.
All evil needs to thrive is for good men to sit back and do nothing
Mercenary swine!
Do you get to take the handcuffs and batons home with you? <IMG alt="image" SRC="wink.gif" border="0">
The training was done in several ways, some days, some weekends and alot of it on the job so to speak. As for the handcuffs well i could take them home at the weekends i suppose <IMG alt="image" SRC="wink.gif" border="0">
edited to say Social Work? aaaaargh!!!lol
[ 09-12-2001: Message edited by: Marmite ]
peacechild
and.... i'm.....a STUDENT aaaaargh <IMG alt="image" SRC="eek.gif" border="0">
[ 07-01-2002: Message edited by: Marmite ]