I’m fresh out of the academy, and the academy covers the very basic stuff. You will learn more once you start working on your own for sure. My best advise is take advantage of your FTO. I should’ve get into more stuff during my fto training but that did not happen. Let the “sr ma’am”out. Create your own lenguaje and way of talking, talk in a way that you feel confortable with. I’m a very talkative person is very easy for me to create rapport but is that is the way I am. If you are shy or a quiet person is fine, just try to find your own style!

Start the academy Monday. More rural area, so I’m currently self-sponsored, but already have an agency I’m in the top 2 for. The biggest thing I’ve learned with being rural, everything seems to be much more fluid than a well organized and established city agency, but that doesn’t bother me. Plan on using many of your videos to aid me in my career, Tommy. Thanks!

I was hired for a department and was never told during the year long hiring process that the academy was 5 hours away and you won’t be home for 3 months. Should be something said up front

I work for a small town I was hired in February and then started academy in August. 11 months later I am almost graduated. and for a small department we do not really have an FTO program. I learned that academy can only teach you so much until you get to experience it firsthand then things are a little different.

get ready for the handover, hope you enjoyed it while it lasted

you dont learn life in a classroom

Can u do a video on how police. Come up with case numbers i know it might be boring just trying to think of new content for u . Love your vids .

You have as much time as in this video. Man field training can be a struggle if you don't absorb as much information as possible Gotta be like a sponge 🧽 while "drinking from a firehouse" Get used to hearing the phrase "clear as mud" 😂

I got a quick question. Can you go through police academy without getting hired on by a department? I got a few security companies I'm wanting to apply for but they have a hard requirement that you either have to have graduated police academy or have 5 years of armed security experience no exceptions. I'm thinking of becoming police but not in this state I honestly want to wait to become police til after me and my wife move out to somewhere that isn't assbackwards which will take a few years of saving and this security job could greatly expedite that happening.

Hey tommy, I have a question about unmarked cars. Why are unmarks always so clean? Wouldn’t it be smarter to leave the cars a little dirty so they blend in a little better?

Sir I am a international student can I join the US cops it is my dream

It would be nice if any of the cops actually know the law and I wouldn't have to keep auditing them.