RCMP hiring and career presentation
The RCMP are hiring and they are offering a career presentation next Friday at 6 p.m. at the Wood Buffalo RCMP Paquette Drive building.
They are also offering a recruitment exam that evening at 8:00.
There are more than 150 different types of operational and administrative opportunities within the RCMP.
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You can learn about those opportunities at the career presentation when a recruiting officer will discuss the diverse opportunities in a policing career with the RCMP, outline the recruiting process step-by-step, provide advice and answer questions.
The next career presentation will be:
Friday, December 4, 2015 at 6:00 PM
Wood Buffalo Detachment
Cormier Community Room, 105 Paquette Drive, Fort McMurray, Alberta
The exam will be offered:
Friday, December 4, 2015 at 8:00 PM
Wood Buffalo Detachment
Cormier Community Room, 105 Paquette Drive, Fort McMurray, Alberta
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As an RCMP police officer, you will help ensure public safety and security, investigate crimes and enforce the law. New recruits of the RCMP start their career in general duty policing at the detachment level. This role provides you with an opportunity to experience a broad range of meaningful and challenging assignments, and gives you a solid foundation for any specialization you may choose to pursue down the line. To apply to the RCMP you must:
- Be a Canadian citizen;
- Be 19 years of age at the time of engagement;
- Be proficient in English and/or French;
- Possess a valid, unrestricted driver’s licence;
- Possess a Canadian secondary school (high school) diploma or equivalent;
- Meet the health and psychological standards;
- Meet the vision standards;
- Meet the hearing standards;
- Meet the necessary level of physical abilities;
- Be prepared to carry a firearm and to use it or any other necessary physical force;
- Be willing to spend six (6) months at the RCMP Academy (Depot) in Regina, Saskatchewan;
- Be willing to relocate anywhere within Canada;
- Be willing to work shift work, including weekends and holidays;
- Be free of any improper use of prescription or illegal drugs;
- Be aware of expectations with regards to tattoos and piercings; and
- Be of good character.
The RCMP is looking for people who are responsible, respectful, professional, compassionate, honest and who have integrity. Once training is successfully completed, a new member will be posted to one of our 750 detachments across the country.