Career Opportunities
The Police Foundations Diploma program can lead to exciting career opportunities
Policing requires individuals who demonstrate integrity, accountability, courage, caring and fairness representative of the diverse communities served. A career in policing involves building strong, positive relationships characterized by mutual respect for all peoples, to want to make a difference in peoples' lives in both rural and urban centres. Policing requires a dedication to and advocacy for crime prevention in the anticipation, recognition and appraisal of a crime risk and the action taken to remove or reduce it.
- Crime Prevention to individuals and toward community issues including youth, seniors' assistance, rural and agricultural issues and abuse issues
- Crime analysis, investigative leadership and expertise to reduce break and enters, recover stolen property and curtail agriculture and forestry crime to developing crime prevention strategies
- Investigation and evidence gathering that entail criminal investigations, children, youth and senior injustice, telemarketing and internet fraud, anti-rackets, political corruption, health fraud, and organized crime and crime files
- Specialized Response Teams and frontline policing for tactical emergency services, aviation services, marine services, negotiations, with canine teams in emergency response team work, tactic and rescue exercises and underwater search and recovery
- Enforce the Private Security and Investigative Services Act as well as Criminal Code violations in relation to individuals and agencies
- Enforce Traffic Safety toward highway safety, aircraft enforcement, field support and traffic safety and security
- Gather Intelligence involving analysis and information gathering to covert operations, enterprise crime, economic crime, fraud prevention, field intelligence that could involve anti-terrorism and hate crimes
- Build community relations to community policing models and safe community building projects including drug awareness, safe schools, streets and youth projects to deal with gang issues, violence and victimization, internet exploitation, threats and prevention relative to the Youth Justice Act
- Forecast and develop responses to emerging crime trends
- Examine contract Policing and Auxiliary Policing
- Aboriginal Policing services
- Civilian employment opportunities exist in communications centres, forensics, information technology, offender transport and special constable work
