Law Enforcement

Program Description

Upon completion of the program, including 6 - week summer semester, you could have 2 certifications in Law Enforcement: patrol and detention.

The five objectives of an officer while serving and protecting the public are: preserving the peace, protect life and property, prevent crime, arrest violators of the law, and enforce laws and ordinances of the city, state, or county.

Law Enforcement Officers may work for a city, county, state or federal agency. Their duties could be performed for police departments, railroads, department stores, airlines, or other agencies. Officers familiarize themselves with their assigned areas and with persons living in the area; note suspicious persons and establishments and report them to the superior officer; report hazards that endanger public safety; report to the scene of accidents, give first aid to the injured, and investigate the causes and results of the accident; direct and reroute traffic around a fire or other disturbance; inspect public establishments requiring licenses to ensure compliance with rules and regulations; warn or arrest persons violating animal ordinances; issue tickets to traffic violators; write and file daily activity reports with the superior officer; drive patrol car or police ambulance.

A detention officers supervise and control inmate behavior during the operation of the detention center; communicate effectively and coherently with other staff or inmates; perform searches of people, vehicles, mail items; transport or escort inmates using handcuffs and other approved restraints; read and comprehend legal and non-legal documents; maintain weapons, equipment and uniforms in functional condition as prescribed for by departmental policy; collect, resolve and/ or direct to appropriate individual or division, inmate complaints, grievances or requests; prepare investigative and other reports or documentation, including sketches as necessary using appropriate grammar, symbols and mathematical computations including filing, alphabetizing and labeling; process and release inmates including taking photographs and legible sets of inked fingerprints or palm prints; observe and control visitors and inmates prior to, during and after visits.

The Law Enforcement Program is designed to prepare graduates to enter the law enforcement field. The Law Enforcement program has been duly approved by the Idaho Peace Officers Standards Training (POST) Council, thus eliminating the graduates' need to attend the basic police academy before taking the certification exam. Because the Law Enforcement Program is driven by POST standards for certification into the law enforcement field, applicants to the program must meet POST standards for admission. These admission standards include a background check into the applicant's criminal, and driving record. A polygraph exam will be given at the beginning of the first semester. The polygraph must be successfully passed in order to continue in the law enforcement program. Additional Requirements include the Physical Readiness Test.

Graduates Employed or Continuing Education Five-Year Average

93%

Average Idaho Income

$47,490 - $66,490