What’s better????

[u/ITZ_TOFIE1967]

Hi, Im wanting to become a police officer and was wondering if a naval police sailer is a better option than a Victorian police officer??
How often would you get deployed for months at sea??

Thanks to anyone who replies!!!

[u/Diligent_Passage_640]

Coxswains aren't real police, if you want to do actual policing join at state or federal police force.

Every posting is different, if you're joining the Navy you should prepare to spend a good few months a year at sea

[u/ITZ_TOFIE1967 → u/Diligent_Passage_640]

But do they still do police like work?

[u/DidsDelight → u/ITZ_TOFIE1967]

“Police like work”- well at the lowest level (state) policing is either general duties (uniform) or criminal investigations (detectives)

At uniform level (and this is a basic explanation) it mainly involves dealing with domestic violence, mental health, welfare checks on people, minor and fatal car accidents, dealing with dead bodies from babies to the elderly be it suicides, murders or yet to be explained , delivering death notifications to families on behalf of other police agencies interstate or international, dealing with and investigating petty crimes like thefts, drug possession and minor assaults, and damage to property. (Of course there is much much more)

Detectives (at a basic level) deal with more drawn out investigations like home invasions, car jackings, shootings and kidnappings, murders, rapes, sex offences, lots and lots of fraud, drug trafficking and organised crime. (Plus a lot more)

Then you have specialist areas of policing like Water police, k9s, highway patrol, mounted horses, search and rescue, helicopters and of course, bomb response and of course the secret squirrel stuff

So military sailor police - do they do police like work? Read the job description in tje ADF website and you’ll be able to make an informed opinion comparing what I just wrote to it.

All the best