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As law enforcement agencies get stricter on their hiring practices, becoming a recruit is the only way to get a job with some of them. The designation of "recruit" only signifies that you are not a fully-fledged police officer yet. In many larger agencies, recruits are hired and sent through the police academy in order to receive the basic training needed to become a police officer. Being an official police recruit has its advantages because they are generally paid positions. Furthermore, your pay is increased once all phases of training are completed and you begin your career on patrol.
A police recruit is someone who is seeking employment with a police agency or who has been hired by an agency. Officers who are in the police academy or out on their first months of work are called recruits. Once they have completed all their training and qualifications, they are called police officers.
A trainee police officer can also be referred to as a police cadet or a police recruit.
Police can face problems when referring youths to community service agencies. There is often a lot of paperwork that is needed for the referrals. Also, it can be difficult to match some offenders to programs. There can also be a wait list for some programs.
Join the Metropolitan Police as a police recruit and work your way up.
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Due to the sides quantity of different police forces in the world this is very difficult to quantify. Also there are many different government agencies which may or may not be classified as police forces, such as a fisheries agency.
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There are approximately 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the United States, ranging from local municipal police departments to federal agencies like the FBI and DEA.