I joined the Boston Police Department seven years ago.and as of now I am still with the department as a police officer.I'm assigned to the mayor's office .I'm the Mattapan/Dorchester liaison to the Mayor's office.
Being a police officer is a very exciting and sensitive job.I do not like to call it a job.I call it career. To be a police officer,you have to be a professional.You have to carry yourself as a professional .and you have to be able to sacrifice . because being a police officer you are a public servant.You help the public.You have to be able to spend an awful lot of time with people.You have to be able to know all the people's name in order to help them.You have to be very dedicated.I take my job very seriously.TO me
for anyone to become a police officer is not to come to the job because of the money aspect of it.If you love it you're going to be a good police officer If you don't and you just come for money you have a lot of surprises a head of you
The greatest reward you get in the Police Department is what you do with the people you work with
That's where I get my satisfaction out of it.When I get out there and I help an old woman, or a disabled person,or if I arrest a burglar or I arrest a murderer.I fell good about it.There are people who see the police officer as only one way.We are cops who go after criminals.It's not true.It depends on what part of the city you are working in.because each division has a different type of client.and our job is to respond to any type of emergency.It can be a woman who's having a child and we've been trained to help with the birth of a child.Somebody could have mice in the house and they call us.Somebody might have a barking dog and they call us.Anything you can imagine.You never know when you're going to get a call and what situation you're going to be dealing with.This is not a boring job.because every day
and every minute you'll be dealing with a different type of thing