Step 6: Prepare For Your Background Check

ALL READY TO GO... NEVER GOT A TICKET IN LIFE UNLESS YOU CALL A WORNING;.. FOR SPEEDING CLOSE BY WHERE THE SPEED GOES UP,WHERE I BOOTED UP MY SPEED TO SOON. OOPS ON MY PART...NEVER DID THAT AGAIN.

I really like the way that you are breaking down the process for becoming a LEO. If you think that you can beat the system, guess what...you can't. You should also reconsider why you want to become a LEO if lying (or even worse in my opinion)or writing misleading information on your application is something you are thinking about doing, figuring that no one is going to find out. Please...they always find out and then you won't get in because you lied, or were evasive, and you want to become a LEO why??? People who lie always think that "everyone else does it" or that they won't get caught. I find it is easier to remember the truth than trying to recall anything that I made up(I'm actually not very good at that...just trying to remember what I did last week can sometimes be hard enough, ya know?!) Not a saint, but not a lier either. It will be hard enough to sit in a room with people that are interviewing you on a multitude of facts, trying not to get upset or confused. I am not looking forward to it, but am going to ask everyone I know connected with Security/Law Enforcement their tips on getting through it. GuardDog45

Nothing to hide, I was a bad kid! My driving uhhhhhh........ I like to go fast! But I don't like to break the law! After all, we are ONLY HUMAN!

i went back into the military part time. I experimented with coke 1 time. I did not tell the military about this because it was so long ago, will this hurt me going through backgrounds....will the background investigator ask the military about me doing coke

Do you need to have good credit to be a cop. i dont have a great driving record either. can someone email me everything i need to know about becoming a cop scooter_cfh@yahoo.com

question! what if you have been married twice and you have a clean record with no tickets citations or felony. You have not gotten your high school diploma until you were 37 now you start college and thinking about becomeing a cop. could you do it, and would here be any branch hire you.

Bigred, it depends how long ago the suspension was. It doesn't look good, but there are worse things that they will be worried about like drug use, DUIs, criminal convictions, etc.

Wow good information.