When you are a police officer how long are the hours?

Hello Jeremy,

After researching your topic for a while, I came across some interesting information I would like to share with you. You were interested in knowing what type of hours a police officer typically works since you might be interested in the career. I came to the consensus that police officers generally work in 8, 10, or 12 hour shifts depending on their respective departments. If you would like to check out what I read, there is an interesting forum for officers of the law that I pulled my information from. I will post a link to the discussion on the forum I found initially and let you go from there. I also learned that the days of the week officers work varies greatly by department as well. I hope you found some of this information useful. If you have further questions, I encourage you to post them here. As always, thank you for asking Career Village!

Resources:

http://forums.officer.com/t165393/

Hi,

It depends on the law enforcement agency you work for and what unit you get assigned to. In patrol work, every department varies 5 days on 2 days off, 4 days on 3 days off, and etc. the lowest I've seen is 8 hour shift and the highest is 12 hour shifts (work week is 37.5 hours).

If you become a detective, the hours depend on the unit you are assigned too and where the investigation takes you.