Product Description

"What to expect from a Police Academy" is a book about what any future, potential cadet can expect while going through the grueling process of a Police Academy. This book will take you through steps on how you can mentally and physically prepare yourself to successfully reach your dreams and make it to graduation day. Throughout the course of this book, I will walk you through what you will need to do to prepare yourself from start to finish. Included within this book are study habits, choosing the right weapon, time management, organizational skills and techniques on how to properly apply them while in the Police Academy.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #706948 in Books
• Published on: 2005-02-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 80 pages

About the Author
Shawn Kinsey has been a Police Officer for the past 3 ¿ years. He is dedicated to making this book a success by helping future Law Enforcement Officers through the grueling and exciting aspects of a Police Academy, making them a success as well. Shawn will bring them closer to their dreams of completing the Academy and becoming a Law Enforcement Officer.

Customer Reviews

Very little useful information, tons of cliché affirmations
Maybe it's because I have been involved with the police department for years now as an Explorer and now as an Aux. Police Officer, but when I bought this book I had hopes of it giving me some more insight about my police academy training that is ahead of me and some tips on handling it, but to me it was really nothing more than some common sense with a lot of filler.

What I found was a [basically] 55 page book with 14 font and double spacing that gave practically no information about what police academy would be like. The author blows through the subjects giving very little detail about anything. All he does is tell you a topic like "Study Habits" tells you that, "in police academy you will need to study a lot and retain information to do well on the tests". Then he'll go on with, "take lots of notes because it's better to have too many notes than not enough notes". Then he'll finish up with a cliché affirmation like, "it may be hard but it will all be worth it in the end!" And BAM the chapter's over, but not to worry because you will relive the SAME information a few chapters away in "Test Preparation". (There is a little treat at the beginning and end of the book where the author tries his hand at a little poetry too.) So basically what you have is obvious information that could in fact be applied to any facet of life with very little specific information that would clue you into the goings on of the police academy or help you through it.

I will say that it is not all bad and there are a few good suggestions but nothing worth buying the book for. The whole book should take you about 15 minutes to read and feels like a high school essay from a student with very little information about the topic. With about four paragraphs per chapters and almost nothing but filler in between the intro and the conclusion, there's really not a lot.

If you are looking into becoming a police officer I would suggest you look somewhere else for information. I would recommend "Cliffs Police Officer Examination: Preparation Guide" by: Larry F. Jetmore since it goes over EVERYTHING including oral boards, testing, practice police exams, physical fitness recommendations, academy procedures and topics, and even grooming guides for your interview!

As far as THIS book goes however, even for the few "pearls" of wisdom, it's not worth the money.

Lame book of quotes
Hi, I thought this was going to be a guide. But it is more a collection of quotes...some funny, some insightful, some inappropriate. Not worth the money

Amazing
This book, the first one I've read in a long time, was extremely helpful on how to prepare for the academy. Everything from study tips, study groups, the steps or stages of the academy and what to expect, everything's right there. Definitely "worth every cent", as they say.