Thinking about joining the RCMP, popo Options

[Rayme]

... The Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For the past..oooh I'd say 6-8 months I've been actively seeking a new career and I'm pretty much sold now on joining the police, it's something I thought before but never really seriously considered it until now. I'm a graphic designer now and I must say this ain't something I want to do until I'm 55, I hate it now I can't stand standing in front of computer for hours and bending over for client's needs isn't rewarding at all.

Anybody has inputs, or somebody they know in the police force? Or thought about joining the badge? I know some of you guys have no respect for them, shut it please. Its not all police officer's who's patroling the roads.

[Valo666]

I don't remember having a talk about the rcmp with you specifically..do you guys have tons of radio ads recently? I'm def. looking into it and will let ya know, for when? I'm not sure, it'd probably be within the year 2010. The place of work is my main concern, I wouldn't like to be posted in nowhere land in the north for sure, but since I'm french/bilingual, I'd hope they'd leave in in Quebec or the Atlantic..well, that's my reasoning

Yea, pretty much one an hour on the edge (big rock station in toronto). Im probably not going to be applying till maybe mid summer. The application process in total takes about 6 months-1 year. From the time you do your written, physical, medical, interview, physc, second interview, ect to the time u start training they said usually takes a minimum of 6 months. With placement, they said the only time that you would go east is if you choose to work some where remote. So say you wanted to stay east, you would have to apply to say like a small town in norther quebec. At the same time, you could probably get posted some where like Surrey/Abbstford really really easily due to the raise in gang violence.

Right now im on the fence between RCMP, Vancouver, and Calgary. I wanna get out of Ontario and go some where that needs the help, not just some where where i would spend the first 6 months working in traffic services.