if you want to be a CSI do you have to go to the police academy?
im not quite sure what career path i want to take. im only 16 so i have time but criminal shows like CSI and criminal minds interest me…and so a lot of the characters are CSIs or work with criminals..so do they have to go to the police academy?
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Television grossly distorts the actually daily lives and duties of police officers.
To be a crime scene investigator, a detective, you have to be a sworn officer requiring you to be academy trained and certified. But your entry into detectives will not happen until you work a beat for many many years proving you are sharp, hard working, and have a knack for dealing with people. You might – I mean might – make it to the detective division after that. But upon entry into detectives, you start over – working less important/lower priority case before you hit the big ones and the big ones get assigned to you by the same ways you earned your way into detectives – hard work, proving yourself and that knack for people thing.
Now another person you see on those shows is an evidence technician. The guys who collect evidence. They may or may not be sworn. Non sworn do not attend the academy but you have to find an agency that employs them. Mine has some left over from years past, but we only use sworn now.