What are some of the career advancement opportunities in criminal justice?

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Donald Soranno · Answer

What are some of the career advancement opportunities in criminal justice? As it relates to the law enforcement community, you know, there are several career advancement opportunities. It just all depends on what department you're in and what size of that department it is. You know, typically you'll start out as a patrol officer, then you can advance up into be a detective, where you're not patrolling the roads, you're actually doing criminal investigations. Or you could get into a specialty unit like SWAT or negotiations. Or you could get into the homicide unit or crimes against women or crimes against children or the robbery squad. You know, there are a lot of different specialized units that, again, depends on the size and type of the agency that you're with. And then you can get up into supervision if you want to put on that leadership role and that leadership hat. Every department you can advance your way up into sergeant, lieutenant, captain, major, however the structure is broken up. So there are a lot of different avenues. I mean, if you're in a harbor town, you know, maybe there's a marine patrol or there's an aviation patrol if you're a pilot. The big thing now we're seeing are drones. Agencies are setting up their own units and getting officers who are drone certified that they can use those. It just all depends on what your niche is, what you would like to get into, what really drives you and gives you purpose. And then you just need to set a goal and say, this is where I want to go, this is where I want to work, and figure out what you need to do to accomplish that.

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"What are some of the career advancement opportunities in criminal justice?"