Joining or not joining the FBI

[MADMIK]

If you're a military vet with years of experience and cannot joint he FBI because of it educational requirements, don't worry.

Join the Border Patrol of the INS; or the Customs Service; or the Park Police; or the Capitol Hill Police. All have uniformed positions. Start at the bottom and you can progress fast.
Don't let the educational requirements of the FBI, DEA, ATF, Secret Service, and DSS disapointed you.

[SSMV]

What if you have both and they still won't consider you because you have no criminal investigative experience?

Gotta love it! http://www.specialoperations.com/ubboard/mad.gif

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Semper Fi

[StapleGun]

If you cannot get into "FIBs" due to education and/or "experience". Try other agencies. MADMIK's words are true. The bureau is not the epitome of federal law enforcement(This is speaking from personal experience). USBP is an excellent stepping stone for anyone wishing to get their foot in the door.

[MADMIK]

The FBI doesn't require criminal investigative experience. Just work experience in a way. New FBI agents today seemed to do well mentally, but not physically, say.

There is a more indepth publication at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/fleo98.pdf

Federal Law Enforcement Officers, 1998
Provides national data on Federal officers with arrest and firearms authority for June 1998, based on a census of Federal agencies. Using agency classifications, the report presents the number of officers working in the areas of criminal investigation and enforcement, police patrol and response, security and protection, court operations, and corrections, by agency and State.

Highlights include the following:


Duty areas for the 83,000 Federal officers nationwide included criminal investigation/enforcement (42%), police response/patrol (19%), corrections (18%), noncriminal investigation/enforcement (14%), court operations (3%), and security/protection (3%).
Three-fifths of Federal officers were employed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (16,552), Bureau of Prisons (12,587), FBI (11,285), and U.S. Customs Service (10,359). Twelve other agencies employed at least 500 officers.
From 1996 to 1998 the INS reported the largest increase in officers in both number (4,149) and percentage (33%). More than half of this increase occurred within the Border Patrol, which employed 7,714 officers in 1998 compared to 5,441 in 1996 (up 42%).
3/00 NCJ 177607

[MADMIK]

Also the 49 state police/highway; thousands of sheriff departments; countless county police; and the city police departments.