Hi Gregory, I have visited my police forensics department since I was applying for a job there. However I am more than certain I would be unable to have an internship in the forensic computing is a lot of illegal images on the screen. I will just keep applying for jobs and hopefully I will get lucky. The below url has a list of Australian numbers in the Computer Forensics departments. It ranges from Part time to Full time, Police only to half and half. http://www.afp.gov.au/ecrime/ElecCrime.pdf I am unsure of the numbers in America or other countries but I would suspect a lot of police agencies would expect sworn in personnel only. Would anyone like to mention what their departments are like, I would prefer if you sent this off the list and I will send statistics in one email to the list. - Daniel Heinonen At 11:22 AM 12/07/01 -0700, you wrote: >Reading more of your email ... > >Yes they most likely want you to be special agents or police officers. >Although this is not always the case. What I would do, is stop by a police >department or the City Hall and tell them that you would like to be in the >computer investigations department. They will usually direct you in the >right direction. You may want to do an internship at a police department so >they can get to know you. Like the computer industry, most of the time it >is who you know. Of course, I do not know what your situation is like but >go on a ride along. You may actually want to become a police officer first. >I have been on 16 ride alongs myself and some were boring while others where >both scary and exciting. > >And of course, have a clean background (again this all depends on where you >want to go) California USA is probably the most stringent of any government >agency in the world. ----------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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