My Future Career
By: Abby Grams
What is my Future Career?
In my future, I'd like to be a police identification and records officer. Collect evidence at crime scenes, classify and identify fingerprints, and photograph evidence for use in criminal and civil cases.
What's the purpose of this career?
- Maintaining records
- Write and review reports on crimes
- Package, store, and retrieve evidence
- Analyze and process evidence at crime scenes and in the laboratory
- Wearing protective equipment when using powders and chemicals
- Dust selected areas of a crime scenes
- Photograph the crime scenes
Schooling Required
The kind of schooling I need for this career would be...
- High School Diploma
- Bachelor's Degree
- Associate's Degree
Skills Needed
- Being careful with details when completing a task
- Reliable, responsible, and dependable
- Being able to control your anger
- Maintaining composure
- Being able to accept criticism
- Being able to work well in intense situations
Tools I would be working with
- Biological Evidence Collection Kit
- Camera Lens
- Footprint Lifters
- Notebooks and Computers
- Ultraviolet UV lamps
- Database Interface
- Query, Photo Image, Office Suit, Spreadsheet, and Word Processing softwares
How much will I get paid?
Police identification and records officer normally make between $67,970 and $129,800 annually. The average amount paid is $97,270 while getting paid around $38.40 hourly.