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Types of Police Officers

Captain – Administrative Professional
Captain – Administrative Professional

Highest ranking combat Police Officer in the classified service and is a highly responsible administrative and ... The Police Captain is obligated to respond to ...

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Chief – Administrative Professional
Chief – Administrative Professional

What Is a Chief Administrative Officer? A chief administrative officer (CAO)--also known as chief operating officer (COO), top administrative executive or vice president of administration--provides the overall direction to an organization through planning, policy-making and coordinating a variety of activities.

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Civilian Investigation Officers (CIOs)
Civilian Investigation Officers (CIOs)

Fingerprint Officer; Civilian Investigation Officers (CIOs) Police Intelligence; Crime Analysts; Computer Forensics Investigator; Communications Officers; Command and Dispatch Roles; Prosecution File Preparation Officers; Detention Officer; Human Resources; Police Lawyer; Police Officers. As a police officer, you will be on the frontline of crime initiatives.

Communications Officers
Communications Officers

Communications officers deliver important information to police officers, such as license plate numbers, warrant statuses and background information on suspects. Other responsibilities include creating digital or written reports, lists and logs based on these calls and, in some cases, training new communications officers.

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Computer Forensics Investigator
Computer Forensics Investigator

Smaller and mid-size agencies rely on the state police or state bureau of investigation for help, or maybe go to the FBI or to the Secret Service, which provides training and expertise in this area. The other federal agencies all have their own specialists, though not in every office.

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Corporal – State Classified
Corporal – State Classified

The rank of police corporal is commensurate with the rank of corporal in the armed forces, typically ranking immediately above officer and immediately below sergeant. The position is also referred to by some agencies as Agent.

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Crime Analysts
Crime Analysts

A crime analyst needs to be proficient with using computers, because they use computer programs combined with statistical data to map possible criminal activity and to create visual presentations such as spreadsheets, maps and graphs to show police officers.

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Detectives
Detectives

What Police and Detectives Do. Police officers protect lives and property. Detectives and criminal investigators, who are sometimes called agents or special agents, gather facts and collect evidence of possible crimes. Work Environment. Police and detective work can be physically demanding, stressful, and dangerous.

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Fingerprint Officer
Fingerprint Officer

If you have an analytical mind and if you are passionate about working with police forces for crime reduction, you may consider becoming a fingerprint officer. Fingerprint officers are trained people who analyse and compare fingerprints taken from crime scenes so as to identify offenders.

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Fish and Game Wardens
Fish and Game Wardens

Game and fish wardens may often patrol difficult terrain or remote areas, and their work is often done alone. In addition to their patrol duties, many conservation officers work alongside biologists and other environmental scientists to study wildlife or fisheries problems.

Lieutenant – Administrative Professional
Lieutenant – Administrative Professional

Lieutenants are ranking police officials who have leadership responsibilities in police departments. Their credentials enable them to supervise entire precincts when higher-ranking officials, such as captains and colonels, are unavailable.

Officer – State Classified
Officer – State Classified

State police officers are bound by federal and state search and seizure laws and are required to keep abreast of any changes implemented by courts or the legislature. A valid warrant must accompany any search or seizure of property, subject to limited exceptions.

Police Community Support Officer
Police Community Support Officer

A police community support officer (PCSO) (Welsh: swyddog cymorth cymunedol yr heddlu, SCCH), or as written in legislation community support officer (CSO) (Welsh: swyddog cymorth cymunedol, SCC) is a uniformed civilian member of police support staff in England and Wales, a role created by Section 38(2) of the Police Reform Act 2002, which was given Royal Assent by Queen Elizabeth II on 24 July 2002.

Police Intelligence
Police Intelligence

Staffed by police officers and support staff, its purpose is to track and predict crime with a view to curbing it. It is an emerging field that gained momentum after the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) launched the National Intelligence Model, which formalised the contribution intelligence makes to policing.

Scenes of Crime Investigators
Scenes of Crime Investigators

A scene of crime officer works alongside police officers to help solve crimes. Their role is to locate, collect, preserve and catalogue evidence from a crime scene. They are also known as crime scene investigators (CSIs). A scene of crime officer will work on a wide variety of crime scenes, from burglaries and vandalism to murders and sexual offences.

Sergeant – State Classified
Sergeant – State Classified

The term "sergeant" refers to a non-commissioned officer placed above the rank of a corporal and a police officer immediately below a lieutenant or, in the UK below an inspector. In most armies the rank of sergeant corresponds to command of a squad (or section).

Sheriffs
Sheriffs

• In US, a sheriff is a police officer but not all police officers are sheriffs. • A sheriff is the highest law enforcing officer in a county and is an elected official. • The officers performing law enforcement duty from the office of a sheriff are called deputy sheriffs.

Special Jurisdiction Police
Special Jurisdiction Police

Special jurisdiction: A kind of catch-all to describe a local-type police agency that provides law enforcement to a special type of jurisdiction that’s not a city or a county. For example a municipal or regional transit system (e.g.

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State Police and Highway Patrol Officers
State Police and Highway Patrol Officers

33-3051 Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers Maintain order and protect life and property by enforcing local, tribal, State, or Federal laws and ordinances. Perform a combination of the following duties: patrol a specific area; direct traffic; issue traffic summonses; investigate accidents; apprehend and arrest suspects, or serve legal processes of courts.

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Transit and Railroad Officers
Transit and Railroad Officers

A transit police force may consist of officers employed directly by a transit system, such as the Amtrak Police, or it may exist as a specialized unit of a local police force, such as the Transit Police Services Bureau of the Orange County, California Sheriff's Department, which serves the Orange County Transportation Authority or South Coast British Columbia Transportation Authority Police Service which serves the transit system of southern British Columbia, Canada.

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Uniformed Officers
Uniformed Officers

Secret Service Uniformed Division officers provide protection for the White House Complex, the Vice President's residence, the main Treasury Building and Annex, and foreign diplomatic missions and embassies in the Washington, D.C., area.