Tailor your Experienced Police Officer application
To help tailor your application, we've put together guidelines to help structure your resume and application submission.
Structured resume
Please list all of the relevant qualifications and experience to ensure that a complete assessment of your skills and abilities can be conducted.
- Ensure that your structured resume includes all criteria in the following example
- Use the following format and keep your resume to a total of 2 pages or less
- Name and contact information
- Provide your full name and any contact information, including telephone numbers or email addresses.
- Education
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- High school or secondary school diploma (or equivalent)
- Courses or programs completed at college, university or
- Courses taken via correspondence or distance education
- Employment history
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- List all employment held in the last 10 years to current date
- Brief job description for each employment including details on any supervisory positions if applicable
- Two recent performance evaluations or appraisals
- Police training
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- List any basic police training courses you've completed
- List all additional training courses, licences, certificates or degrees relevant to policing
- List any training or experience in a specialized unit (for example, drugs, child exploitation, surveillance)
Functional police experience and competencies
- Provide 2 examples of your functional police experience for each of the following police competencies using the STAR format and keep your text to a total of 9 pages or less.
- Request a copy of the RCMP Police Competency definitions and form from your provincial recruiting office. Incorporate these definitions in your examples.
Police competencies
- Preparing and presenting a testimony in court
- Obtaining judicial authorizations (for example, warrants, Promise to Appear, summons, etc.)
- Using investigative interviewing techniques
- Conducting investigations
- Prioritizing and promoting safety
- Applying legislation and policies, procedures and strategic priorities
- Showing flexibility
- Communicating effectively
- Working effectively within a team
The STAR format
STAR stands for Situation, Task, Action and Result. The STAR format is used by the RCMP to capture behavioural examples of relevant performance to assess competencies. Use this format to provide complete descriptions of the scenarios, the actions taken, and the results of your actions to describe your functional police experience.
- Situation
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Clearly describe the situation surrounding your example.
- What was your role
- Who was involved
- What were the important details that impacted your decisions
- Task
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Clearly describe the task you were required to complete.
- What was your specific challenge
- Action
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In more detail, clearly describe all actions you took to resolve the situation.
- Describe your steps and course of action
- Result
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Clearly describe the outcome of the situation.
- What did you accomplish
Example of response using the STAR format
This example demonstrates the STAR format you will use to prepare 2 required examples for each competency relating to your functional police experience.
- Competency
- Experience and ability to conduct investigations.
- Situation
- Over the past three years I was the supervisor of a general investigations unit. During the months of July and August of last year, there was a rash of business break and enters occurring throughout the city. Initial investigations by responding officers to these break and enters yielded little evidence to focus on potential suspects. However, I noticed that there were similarities in most of these break and enters, with matching modus operandi (MO's).
- Task
- It was my job to co-ordinate and investigate the break and enters in an effort to locate the suspects and follow up accordingly.
- Action
- I gathered information on all break and enters occurring in the city with similar MO's. I then contacted some human sources to find out if they had any information pertaining to the rash of break and enters. I liaised with the Media Relations Officer, who prepared a media release soliciting public assistance for any information pertaining to these break and enters. I also met with the Property Crime Unit and gathered intelligence on possible suspects. I was able to identify two main suspects, both working independently with other accomplices. I then implemented an action plan to deal with these suspects. I requested the assistance of our undercover investigators to confirm the location of one suspect. I conducted a meeting on September 10 consisting of police officers from all the different investigative units. I chaired this meeting and presented an operational plan which I had developed for discussion.
- Results
- Within a couple of days, the first suspect was arrested and taken before the courts for numerous break and enter offences. On September 15, the operational plan on the second suspect was implemented. On September 28, I arrested the second suspect, and he eventually pled guilty to numerous break and enter charges.
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