Joining police

[Cbev]

Bernetini69,
4 years ago as a Met Officer with 4 years service I was on around 34k a year and that included working a shed load of overtime and having no life at times, joys of owning a house in London. Best thing that ever happened to me was to leave the Met and get into the CP/HE industry. As a Special you will be used and abused by whatever station you get attached to you will not do any reponse driving, level 1 and 2 public order events, survelliance ,search teams, overtime, in fact sweet fa mate, you will find yourself on general dogs duty alongside pcso's. If your young then its not the ideal way to spend your weekends. If you are motivated by money and how fast you can earn it better off being a stockbroker.

[co19]

The only job more pointless less a special is a PCSO, lets all thanks Blunkets for wasting hundreds of millions of our taxes on that one.

As a special you will not do anything other than report a couple of crimes, give a couple of parking tickets and be stood on insecure premises.

[zatoichi]

At my station the PCSO's never leave the office unless there is about four of them, they walk around the town holding hands almost and occasionally stop and talk to drunks in the park. Bloody useless. They have nice uniforms though, which is what the bosses want "walking uniforms on the street". Some of the PCSO's are nice people do not get me wrong but they have little training, no idea but all the gear. We do have to rescue them when they do go out when its dark, not a normal thing that and then they scream on the radio that they are getting abuse from the local yobs. I have more respect for some of the specials though, they do get all the crap jobs and are treated badly.

[moomin]

Specials are a breed among themselves. There are not many people out there that would give up their spare time for a position which comes without any financial reward. Special constables are usually asked to work when the demand for extra bodies on the Streets are needed and this tends to be a Friday and Saturday night when, due to our culture of drinking, there are idiots which are intent on causing problems for both the police and also party folk who are just out for a good time with friends.

Specials tend to end up with lots of trouble, zero pay and don't learn that much as they are not required to investgiate crime, carry a workload or complete crime reports. They fill out their statement and that's it. Not much learnt then!

There are some really good ones out there any one who springs to mind has just joined as a regular. Saying that, he was in Merseyside police as a regular beofre leaving, and then returning as a special prior to joining again.

Moomin

[MTJ]

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Originally Posted by co19 The commercial sector is the private security industry, I made the right choice and have not looked back since and I am on alot more money. Travel the world, do some interesting things, stay in nice hotels and never turn right when getting on a plane.

CO19,

I've been in the job for just over 5 years and already fed up with the politics. How did you make the step into commercial sector? Its sounds a lot better generally?

Cheers

MTJ

[co19]

Fortunately I have always made the right decisions at the right time, about leaving the army, leaving the police and moving into the commercial sector. Even then I have seemed to move just at the right time between jobs, probably more luck than judgement. You work hard, don't turn many things down and give it your best. You end up meeting the right people and you sell yourself. That's how i did it.

I say corporate security work is like acting, few make a living out of it and alot struggle to get by on it but its what they want to do.

[jaymacca]

earning 40k in any job is hard, and u want to earn this by d time ur 26, , you say its the ideal job bu the money is a problem, i dnt think this is the ideal job for u then, as it intails longs shifts for reasonble pay, many other jobs out there that offer a similar wage for half the effort, its the prinicpal of the job tho,if ur here just for the wage then i would thing long and hard.....im not saying you are just here for the wage, and dont meen to disrespcet you bu like other prople have said think long and hard about it.