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I’m currently outlining a mystery whose main character is a police woman. I’m at an early stage and need some information about Police structure. My novel is set in the States but I’m not American and I don’t live there anymore (luckily for me I didn’t have to deal with police officers either while I was there!), so any help would be really welcome as I’m still trying to figure out what my character can and cannot do.
My main questions are:
Do you need a clean record to become a policeman? If you killed someone in self defense could that prevent you from joining the Force?
Is there a minimum experience/age requirement to become a homicide detective?
If you were once turned down for a passage to homicide (because they think you slipped information to the press, which you didn’t but couldn’t prove your innocence just as they had no evidence you did), how long after that - if ever - would you be taken into consideration again?
Thanks in advance
Raffaella
My main questions are:
Do you need a clean record to become a policeman? If you killed someone in self defense could that prevent you from joining the Force?
Is there a minimum experience/age requirement to become a homicide detective?
If you were once turned down for a passage to homicide (because they think you slipped information to the press, which you didn’t but couldn’t prove your innocence just as they had no evidence you did), how long after that - if ever - would you be taken into consideration again?
Thanks in advance
Raffaella