My Criminal Justice Internship

With being a CJ Major, I decided to do an Internship with the Callaway County Sheriff’s Department this semester. Most of the things I do, I can not talk about because of confidentiality and some of it is just too hard to explain in writing, so this post may seem like it doesn’t have all the information needed, but I wanted to let you know what was going on at my internship.

Now I really like this internship and I work around a lot of good people. These people have humor, a sense of sarcasm which goes great with who I am. I am glad that Boone County screwed up and could not take me as an intern because I have loved every moment I have been at the Callaway County Sheriff’s Department. I see things everyday that gives me hope and sadness in society, but nobody should be afraid because this is how life goes and things happen for a reason.

While at my internship I work with a Sargent who is also the evidence manager. Most of my days are filled with doing things related to taking in evidence from cases and organizing them into their respective spots into the evidence building. With images, they have to be placed into the image server which is very protected. Sometimes we pull cases to that are many years old to be submitted for destruction. I spend a lot of time filing paperwork. It is not all kicks and giggles in the law enforcement industry, there is a lot of paperwork that goes along with protecting the public. On some occasions we have returned items to their owners.

I wish I could tell you more, but there are a lot of confidential aspects to what I do and I will always suggest doing what you love and when you get to school do an internship. Do it and you won’t regret it!

Until the ‘morrow we will speak again

~Megan