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Monay
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How important is networking/connections in the police department?
I know to move up in rank to become an homicide detective you have to do more the 2 years at a university but do you have to have connects to move up in rank? #career #criminal-justice #detective
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Gonzalo Gambino
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Gonzalo’s Answer
Hi Monay - The following resource will help answer your question: https://www.waldenu.edu/online-bachelors-programs/bs-in-criminal-justice/resource/how-to-build-a-professional-network-in-criminal-justice.
What Are the Advantages of Networking?
While many who hold a criminal justice job gain satisfaction from helping keep their community safe and orderly, the profession can be stressful and, at times, lonely. Whether you have a law enforcement job, support staff job, justice system job, criminologist job, or any other criminal justice job, you can likely benefit from building a professional network. A network can help you:
Enhance Your Visibility
Few of us want to be nothing more than a cog in the system. When you build a professional network, people in your criminal justice field will get to know you personally, which can open up new opportunities and meaningful connections.
Advance Your Career
Who you know can directly affect where you end up working. A professional network ensures you have contacts throughout your criminal justice field, improving the likelihood that, if you want to change jobs or advance your career, you’ll know someone who can help.
Share Ideas
Do you have ideas about how to improve your area of criminal justice? A professional network gives you people to discuss your ideas with, and it can increase the chances of your ideas being heard by people who can make a real difference. Additionally, a professional network gives you the opportunity to hear new ideas and learn tricks of the trade.
Expand Your Support System
The only people who fully understand what it means to work in criminal justice are other criminal justice professionals. And these professionals can help you get through challenging times by offering advice and counseling you on the best ways forward.
Give Back
If you are like many who start a job in criminal justice, you already have a desire to help others. A professional network lets you take that further, opening you up to volunteer opportunities and giving you the chance to mentor others entering your criminal justice field.
What Are the Advantages of Networking?
While many who hold a criminal justice job gain satisfaction from helping keep their community safe and orderly, the profession can be stressful and, at times, lonely. Whether you have a law enforcement job, support staff job, justice system job, criminologist job, or any other criminal justice job, you can likely benefit from building a professional network. A network can help you:
Enhance Your Visibility
Few of us want to be nothing more than a cog in the system. When you build a professional network, people in your criminal justice field will get to know you personally, which can open up new opportunities and meaningful connections.
Advance Your Career
Who you know can directly affect where you end up working. A professional network ensures you have contacts throughout your criminal justice field, improving the likelihood that, if you want to change jobs or advance your career, you’ll know someone who can help.
Share Ideas
Do you have ideas about how to improve your area of criminal justice? A professional network gives you people to discuss your ideas with, and it can increase the chances of your ideas being heard by people who can make a real difference. Additionally, a professional network gives you the opportunity to hear new ideas and learn tricks of the trade.
Expand Your Support System
The only people who fully understand what it means to work in criminal justice are other criminal justice professionals. And these professionals can help you get through challenging times by offering advice and counseling you on the best ways forward.
Give Back
If you are like many who start a job in criminal justice, you already have a desire to help others. A professional network lets you take that further, opening you up to volunteer opportunities and giving you the chance to mentor others entering your criminal justice field.
Zhan Jovanovski
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Hi, thank you for your question. The most important thing is to strengthen your skills and knowledge about criminology and related disciplines. Please do not count on years of experience or service or connects. Try to find what you are good and try to specialize. Skills and results are most important. Please don’t stop to learn and educate yourself. Try to specialize as much you can ( chemistry, forensic medicine, physics). Also try to be as much more in the field. That is the best education in criminology.