Police officer

1. Police officer Caleb Hona

2. 5 Interesting facts about your career Pay $55,900,$32,619 Daily duties patrol Daily duties listing Daily duties looking for trouble Daily duties fitness

3. Subjects and skills I need…. English Good people contact Reading and writing knowledge of police policy and procedures, including the laws relating to police and traffic work knowledge of how the court system works knowledge of community support services knowledge and understanding of a range of cultures skill in observing human behaviour communication and people skills, including interviewing, conflict resolution and negotiation skills skill in preparing written and verbal reports problem-solving skills record-keeping skills. The ability to speak more than one language may also be useful.

4. Qualifications I need….. Police academy Fitness Maths 19 weeks of training at the Royal New Zealand Police College in Porirua, two years of supervised frontline police work, during which you undertake a series of workplace assessments, and a compulsory university distance learning course. To enter police training you must: be a New Zealand citizen or have permanent residency status, and be living in New Zealand permanently pass psychological, numerical, verbal and abstract reasoning assessments pass a physical fitness test be at least 18 years of age when you graduate from the Royal New Zealand Police College. You must also have a first aid certificate, a full driver's licence, a defensive driving certificate and a swimming certificate of competency. People with criminal and/or drink driving convictions are not eligible to join the police.

5. Why I choose this career • I choose this career. A police officer because of the fitness and the pay but I don’t like the gang’s like the crip’s and the blood’s .that’s why I choose this career to keep New Zealand crime level’s down.

6. Sergeant Caleb Hona