It is important to understand that it is not required by any Canadian police service to date; however, neither is any form of post secondary education.
The minimum requirements are quite low at your standard highschool diploma and First-aid class C.
I feel that Police Foundations is a great program to take - I took it and graduated with honours. It lays the groundwork for policing in several fields including:
- Diversity issues
- Community policing and principles
- The physical aspect of the job
- Law
- Police powers of arrest
- Criminal Code
- Highway Traffic Act
- Provincial Offences Act
- Forensics
- Evidence, report writing, form writing
- etc.
I definitely recomend the PF program to anyone interested in law enforcement, but I also recomend that the individual takes whatever program they are interested in, not necessarily one because it foreshadows a future career. Police services nowadays are looking for people from a wide range of experiences.
If your intersted in computer sciences, take it! A police service will view you as a huge asset because of your computer literacy and skills, the computer crimes department is right at your footsteps!
This is just one example of how one should play out their education - I am happy I took the program, I learned alot and made some excellent references in the policing field. Take whatever program or life experience you are interested in, the rest will follow suit.
Take care,
Simon
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Simon have posted great information about police foundations programs, I can say this because, I am studying in this program at a community college. As Simon said minimum requirements are quite low but career options are excellent !
That's why I have selected this program.
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