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| Median Wage (USD, 2025) | Projected Job Openings (2025-2035) | Projected Growth (2025-2035) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Statistics | $93790 | 7800 | -0.7% |
| State Statistics | - | - | - |
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Experience Requirements Overview
- Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
- Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
- Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
- Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
Education, Training and Experience
Required Level of Education: Post-Secondary Certificate
Related Work Experience: N.A.
On-Site or In-Plant Training: Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year
On-the-Job Training: Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year
Detailed Work Activities
- Check physical condition of people or animals.
- Interview people to gather information about criminal activities.
- Examine crime scenes to obtain evidence.
- Prevent unauthorized individuals from entering restricted areas.
- Record information about suspects or criminals.
Work Values
Achievement
Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement.
Working Conditions
Recognition
Relationships
Support
Independence
Tasks
- Prepare reports that detail investigation findings.
- Obtain and verify evidence by interviewing and observing suspects and witnesses or by analyzing records.
- Preserve, process, and analyze items of evidence obtained from crime scenes and suspects, placing them in proper containers and destroying evidence no longer needed.
- Obtain facts or statements from complainants, witnesses, and accused persons and record interviews, using recording device.
- Record progress of investigation, maintain informational files on suspects, and submit reports to commanding officer or magistrate to authorize warrants.
- Analyze completed police reports to determine what additional information and investigative work is needed.
- Note, mark, and photograph location of objects found, such as footprints, tire tracks, bullets and bloodstains, and take measurements of the scene.
- Secure deceased body and obtain evidence from it, preventing bystanders from tampering with it prior to medical examiner's arrival.
- Determine scope, timing, and direction of investigations.
- Search for and collect evidence, such as fingerprints, using investigative equipment.
- Organize scene search, assigning specific tasks and areas of search to individual officers and obtaining adequate lighting as necessary.
- Examine records and governmental agency files to find identifying data about suspects.
- Examine records to locate links in chains of evidence or information.
- Prepare and serve search and arrest warrants.
- Obtain summary of incident from officer in charge at crime scene, taking care to avoid disturbing evidence.
- Testify before grand juries concerning criminal activity investigations.
- Secure persons at scene, keeping witnesses from conversing or leaving the scene before investigators arrive.
- Participate or assist in raids and arrests.
- Identify case issues and evidence needed, based on analysis of charges, complaints, or allegations of law violations.
- Question individuals or observe persons and establishments to confirm information given to patrol officers.
- Collaborate with other offices and agencies to exchange information and coordinate activities.
- Prepare charges or responses to charges, or information for court cases, according to formalized procedures.
- Check victims for signs of life, such as breathing and pulse.
- Provide information to lab personnel concerning the source of an item of evidence and tests to be performed.
- Summon medical help for injured individuals and alert medical personnel to take statements from them.
- Block or rope off scene and check perimeter to ensure that entire scene is secured.
- Notify, or request notification of, medical examiner or district attorney representative.
- Maintain surveillance of establishments to obtain identifying information on suspects.
- Notify command of situation and request assistance.
- Perform undercover assignments and maintain surveillance, including monitoring authorized wiretaps.
Work Styles
Innovation
A tendency to be inventive, to be imaginative, and to adopt new perspectives on ways to accomplish work.
Achievement Orientation
Intellectual Curiosity
Tolerance for Ambiguity
Initiative
Adaptability
Self-Confidence
Perseverance
Leadership Orientation
Humility
Sincerity
Empathy
Cooperation
Optimism
Social Orientation
Cautiousness
Attention to Detail
Dependability
Integrity
Stress Tolerance
Self-Control
Data Source: This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. This page includes Employment Projections program, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.