Police Job Shadow

I have been looking into getting into criminology here at UNI for my major. I always thought it would be a cool fun job to be a police officer. If I did become a police officer I would want to do it at a bigger city. This is why I choose to do my job shadow at the Waterloo Police Department. Waterloo is the biggest city with the most crime, that is closest to cedar falls. I want a job that you will always live on the end and that will be different from day to day. So, I called down the the Waterloo Police Department and got transferred over to with Sgt. Clark, which is who I ended up doing my ride along with. The process of setting up a job shadow with them was a lot easier than I expected it to be. Here is my experience of going to the Waterloo Police Department and doing a ride along with Sgt. Clark, (9 years.)
On my way over to Waterloo it was a little scary and nerve wracking because I didn’t know what to expect. This was the first time doing a ride along in my life and I wasn’t …show more content…
I was glad I got this opportunity to do a ride along with the waterloo police department. I got a feeling for what the job would be like overall. In the future I will probably go back and do another job shadow to see if anything in the job changes or we do something different than last time. This job is what it says in the description, although there will be part of the job that change day to day. I found out that being a police officer seems to be a very serious job but that they mess around just like any other job and still try to make it fun when they can. Sgt. Clark has worked at the waterloo department for 9 years and says he will continue to work there until he is ready to retirer.It’s good to hear that the people there like there job even though how stressful it is and want to stay there. It gives me reassurance on going into this field that people enjoy doing there job and really making a difference in the