Have any mums become a police officer after having kids? Particularly in QLD?
How did you find the process? Were you given any exceptions to the mandatory placement “anywhere in the state” ?
Joining QPS
Joining QPS
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I have family and friends in police force in many states, including QLD. Soooo many cops was n t to move back to their families and friends and partners. Highly unlikely someone without years of hard work would get to be exempt from being posted somewhere at the expense of people who have done the hard yards being able to come home.
My ex joined the police just after we got married. He was able to use our kids schooling, special needs and my grandparents etc to stay placed in our local area. Having said that our area has a high demographic for a low socioeconomic people. So there was space and availability for our area.
I guess the hardest part is actually when you do your training. How far do you live from there? Are you willing to travel daily or will you stay on base and come hone weekends? It’s a gruelling process and not something that can be taken on lightly. The days were long apparently and the marks needed to be high with a small margin for error.
They did both capsicum spray and tazered on my ex (one was mandatory but I can’t recall which).
There are no promises you wouldn’t be placed anywhere but you do have some options and it’s not necessarily likely if live, in say in Brissy, you’d get posted to Cairns. They tend to (again not promised) to post within the area that you do your training. Again I can’t stress this enough you could end up anywhere. It’s a needs bases and if they ‘need’ people in Mt Isa you’ll end up there. If they ‘need’ people in Cape York you’ll end up there.
If I recall properly, my ex was given a list of areas close to graduation of where they needed people and he had to choose 3 he’d like. But again not a promise he’d get any of them.
Thank you, very helpful. I’m thinking it will be something I’ll need to wait until our kids a bit older.
You can do it with young children, but it just adds to the challenges. If you tried to tackle it now with little ones then my recommendation would be to have your ‘village’ of support. Not just for you but for your partner (if you have one) being left at home with kiddies is a tough gig when you’re use to support from your loved one. I found night time loneliness was the killer for me.
But yeap waiting till the kids are older is okay as well, after all QPS isn’t going anywhere 😂
What you could do now is study a degree like criminology, forensics ect to give you a leg up and some expertise as your young kids are growing up.
I’m not a police officer, but it may help when it comes to getting posted if you’re an expert in a certain area