subject: Career And Self-development: Skills For Police Officers [print this page] Natural skills are very importantNatural skills are very important. Besides, every individual has those inborn skills that should be detected and developed correspondingly. You can be an inborn ballet dancer, though your talent can be ignored and hence you will become a mediocre teacher. In this respect, you should be able to detect your inclination. Moreover, parents and educators are those people that spend most time with children. So, they can notice some skills and make an effort to develop those in the rising generation.
Children dream about
As a rule, children dream about either unreal things or about too real ones. For instance, a child can dream about becoming a Spiderman or about having enough to eat and becoming rich. Social class, living conditions, and environment in the family and in class can influence the dreams of children. It is obvious that adults should encourage children to become educated people with lofty aims to reach. However, some educators and parents fail to demonstrate those concepts on examples of their personal values and cravings.
Being a police officer means
Some children dream about becoming representatives of brave professions such as police officers or firemen. A police officer should be very brave and extremely smart not to be killed by cruel criminals. Detectives can be considered the highest stage of a police officers career excluding the chief of the police department. A police officer should:
1.Be brave and adherent to the profession;
2.Be an intelligent and analytically-thinking person;
3.Be purposeful and develop your skills;
4.Analyze your skills and try to fill in the gaps in your knowledge via certain courses.
It is possible to enumerate a hundred of characteristics necessary to become a good police officer. However, you should feel that this is your calling and develop appropriate skills. It is natural that you will find out more about skills relevant to this profession in the process of learning.
