By being a glory hog, we mean are you one of these people who like to take the credit for things you did not do or ideas you did not have? Or will you make sure others know who really did the deed or came up with the idea, as in share the limelight? This [….]

So what is your personality like? Easy going, amenable, outgoing and easily approachable? Or, do you have one of those personalities like a Pit Bull on a bad day? If you do, you might want to reconsider becoming a police officer. What the heck is a “police personality” anyhow? Well if you spend any time [….]

Here are a couple of more things you will need to be aware of if you are going to be a good police officer. Do you readily accept extra work or responsibility without immediately expecting to receive extra pay? There are many kinds of people in just about any workforce and some of them are [….]

The two traits we are going to talk about in this blog entry are the ability to accept responsibility for yourself and for others and whether or not you accept criticism. Both of these should be obvious, but that is not always the case when push comes to shove in a difficult situation. Your examiners [….]

Since we’re still discussing what other traits make a good cop, we will be taking a look at a couple more of these in this posting. Being a cop is about being a complete human being with a set of traits that make you suited for the job at hand. If you don’t have all [….]

In one of our recent blog posts we talked about some of the traits a police officer needs to be a good cop. Those traits are prized and respected, and are traits that your police examiners will be searching for when you take your exams. The first two we covered were honesty and trustworthiness. In [….]

Aside from the fact that you need to be intelligent, able bodied, able to put a sentence together in the Queen’s recognizable English and write a report in legible handwriting, there are other characteristics your examiners will be looking for when they interview you and evaluate your test results. One of those traits would be [….]

This is the first article in a new Police Ready series called “Defining a Good Cop”. We will be exploring some of the positive traits that you should develop to get a good start in your policing career as well as exploring some of the negative traits that you should avoid at all costs. What [….]

Police Ready has started a new blog series called “Defining a Good Cop“. The purpose of this series is to take an in-depth look at many different traits and identify whether these traits are positive or negative with regards to becoming a good police officer. How do you even define a “good trait” for a [….]

If you have tried our Police Ready training system before, then you will notice that something looks different once you log in again. Our Police Ready training system has been updated with a slightly new look and feel. The new user interface is now much sleeker which increases visual simplicity. It also helps to concentrate [….]