Personal Narrative: My Experience Of Becoming A Police Officer

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My experience for becoming a police officer, I had to go through many of series of testes. The first test was a written test which I had to pass with 75% score, before continued on with the physical testing. For instance, I had to run a two mile run, less than five minutes, pull a dummy that weight one hundred and fifty pounds about twenty-five feet, shoot a revolver twelve times with my right hand and with my left hand, hang from a bar for sixty seconds, twenty push up and twenty sit ups. After passing those series of tests, than it was the academy, from nine to five Monday through Friday for three months, which consisted of physical and mentally tests. All of these test had to be completed before I was swear in as a police officer.
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