I'm a Sheriff's Deputy with a large agency in Florida. Got my bachelor's degree and have been on the job for a couple years. My duties include basically everything your average cop will deal with in a patrol function... responding to 911 calls, doing some traffic enforcement if I choose, and I also try to find some time to be proactive. As with most cops I have some pet peeves. Two of mine are people who illegally park in handicap spaces (typically kids who use grandma's car and think they can park in the handicap spot) and habitual juvenile runaways who typically are being used as prostitutes in the area, which sickens me to even think about it. I work nights so I get to see a lot of in-progress calls, but also have my fair share of the typical domestics and the pesky 911 misdials and/or hang-ups. On the rare occasion that absolutely nothing is happening in my zone on weekday night, then I either fight myself to stay awake or my zone partners and I meet up and see what kind of trouble we can find.

Occasionally about 4 or 5 of us have nothing going on so we'll sit on known drug houses and pull cars over coming out of there. One particular location they just love to roll the stop sign out to the main road, then wonder why 5 marked patrol cars are behind them for simply running the sign or not using a turn signal. I love seeing their reaction... However, one instance we all pulled a car over and much to our surprise the driver had an outstanding warrant out of California for two counts of premeditated murder. Good catch for only a failure to use a turn signal which we were going to use to attempt a search of the vehicle. I use that story every time I stop someone for speeding and they try to tell me I have better things to be doing or "real criminals" to be catching instead of stopping them. Mind you, I RARELY actually write a traffic citation, but people still want to argue about their verbal warning.

That's my job... I love going to work every day. Now if we could just encourage the politicians to pay us more

Thats awesome man! im also in FL... towards the south end and i hope to get on with my local agency or PBSO

I'm a Master Sergeant for the Department of Corrections and I am a former Deputy Sheriff.

I plan to become a Virginia State Trooper when I retire from military service.

I am part of the LCPA (LEXINGTON Citizen Police Academy). I know its not much but that's all i can be part of as i am in a wheelchair. My biggest wish is to be come a full police officer but some wishes wont ever come true.

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All this before I turned 23; Now I'm finishing up a BA in Criminology.

Nice to see a fellow criminologist on the site I must say however that criminology is way too theoretical out here. I'm currently doing an internship with the narcotics division of the federal police and the real deal is just so much different.

Am doing educations for the Dutch Arrestation Unit. (Consider that as SWAT)

Hopefully LAPD or NYSP in a few years.