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Way cool, sounds like you’re having a blast & doing great things, now to convince your department to send you to the FBI academy 😱😱🤔😁😁

That'd be cool but something tells me that'd be a good while before they'd ever consider such a thing. Even the chief hasn't done that. I've got an ALERRT recertification in a couple weeks, and I was asked if I'd be interested or willing to go to a crash investigator / reconstructionist course - our crash investigator recently left the department so we don't have anyone who has taken such training. I'm alright at math, but not great at it. What I'd really like to do is take more CIT courses and get mental health officer certification, and get more in depth investigation courses.

Crash investigation is a good field to learn. It also has potential for a good income if you leave police work. Insurance companies have been known to pay big bucks to get their own investigations done when it comes to the prospect of paying out a heavy loss.