How many credits ?

[kihun_cha]

how many college credits did you have when you got your first job as police?
im hearing that around princton college, all the police officer have a degree 120+ credits b/c the school is nice.. and is state police requirement military experience 2 yrs AND or OR college credits??

[Kimble]

how many college credits did you have when you got your first job as police?

Let's see, I had:

130 credits from undergrad + 15 credits of undergraduage prerequisite courses to enroll in my MS program + 36 credits in my graduate program.

What's that? 180 credits (give or take).

Why do you ask?

[Legoate]

I had about 240 credits, a BS and two AS degrees. I had also served 16 years in the military.

(my dept requires a minimum of 60 units to apply)

[acreature]

I have no idea.... 506 hours of BLET

[Radical Jack]

However many credits it takes to get a bachelor's degree.

[Kimble]

However many credits it takes to get a bachelor's degree.

Around 130 on the semester system and 180 on the quarter system, plus or minus a few here and there.

[Radical Jack]

Around 130 on the semester system and 180 on the quarter system, plus or minus a few here and there.

Thanks, I had forgotten. Sitting around and rotting in the jail does that to a person.:D

[BP348]

I had ummmmmm None!!:D

My agency didn't require it. I'm proud to say that I now have 120+ With a Bachelors working on my Masters.

[kihun_cha]

wow............. that's a lot of credits.. is it hard to get into pd with just associate degree? with just reserve military experience?

[Kimble]

wow............. that's a lot of credits.. is it hard to get into pd with just associate degree? with just reserve military experience?

The answer to that is Yes and No. Yes, it's hard to get hired on with just an associate's degree and/or reserve military experience if you're applying to a department with many applicants who have experience/education well beyond your's. No, it's not hard to get hired on in a very small department where they need officers and have applicants with equal or less qualifications to your own.

The short answer is that your question is entirely to open-ended for anyone to answer with any certainty, but suffice to say that some departments would hire you with your education/work experience, while others would not due to hiring on applicants with more qualifications beyond what you have.

[kihun_cha]

The answer to that is Yes and No. Yes, it's hard to get hired on with just an associate's degree and/or reserve military experience if you're applying to a department with many applicants who have experience/education well beyond your's. No, it's not hard to get hired on in a very small department where they need officers and have applicants with equal or less qualifications to your own.

The short answer is that your question is entirely to open-ended for anyone to answer with any certainty, but suffice to say that some departments would hire you with your education/work experience, while others would not due to hiring on applicants with more qualifications beyond what you have.

ok im going to aim for 120+credit and mabye i can deploy to iraq so i can have more experience in military.. didnt know it took this much to become a police officer.. tough

[Silver Fox]

how many college credits did you have when you got your first job as police.?
im hearing that around princton college, all the police officer have a degree 120+ credits b/c the school is nice.. and is state police requirement military. experience 2 yrs AND or OR college credits??

Son, back in 1952 I didn't have any college credits when I got my first job as a police officer, and most of the 250-300 LEO's in the department didn't have a HS diploma, as it wasn't required.
I was fresh out of the regular army, after serving a 4 year hitch as an MP during the KW.
When I enlisted, I requested military police training as my first preference, and as a result attended and graduated from the army's MP school in Camp Gordon, GA.
I worked as a city LEO for a little over a year, then went to state
LE level, where I retired as chief investigator of a state's arson division.
Along the way, (31 years) I picked up a HS diploma and enough CC's to
qualify for a BS.
Today, an arson investigators educational qualifications in this state, calls for a BS in a LE related field, and to attend the police academy to acquire LEO certification.

[TX-LEO]

My GF gives me credit every time she has an O.....


ahh nevermind..

[Radical Jack]

My GF gives me credit every time she has an O....

Boo-yah.:D
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