Question # 7

While police officers are only required to work a  fourty-hour week, police tend to work overtime. They often work nights and weekends, as shifts are necessary in order to maintain twenty-four hour protection. During large investigations, police officers are usually required to work longer hours. At all times, whether on or off duty, they are expected to be armed and ready to state academy where training will include classroom instruction and experience areas such as firearms, self-defense, traffic control, and emergency response. Continuing education and training helps officers and detectives perform better at their jobs, and both are essential to job promotion. Higher salaries are almost always awarded to those with higher degrees. Police officers can be elected into supervisor roles as sheriff and deputy's. Positions requiring similar skill sets as police officers include investigators, correctional officers, security guard, and surveillance officers (" www.salary.com"). These are all ways for movement and advancement in the work force of Law Enforcement.