Personal Narrative: Criminal Minds Showed Me My Future

Maria Rogers Prof. Martine

Criminal Justice 9/16/15

Criminal Minds Showed Me My Future.

My dream job is to some day work with The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Critical Incident Response Group's Investigations and Operations Support Sections (IOSS.) This branch of work is under the FBI’s Crisis Incident Response Group. The IOSS organization is divided into two sections, the National Center for Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) and the Operations Support Branch (OSB.) The NCAVC has four Behavioral Analysis Units (BAU,) and the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP.) With the support gained from family and teachers I am positive working with the BAU is achievable.

Proventus Per Adparatus- Success Through

Readiness. This is the motto of the well-known CIRG, which was formed in 1994. This group’s job is to provide help for critical FBI incidents by bringing multiple resources into one unit. The Investigations and Operations Support Section’s NCAVC are tasked with giving “behavioral-based investigative support” as well as operational support. Their BAUs use Behavioral Science in these criminal investigations to help get a better understanding of human behavior. Their goal is to learn as much as they can about criminals by trying to understand how they think and why they do what they do. Once figured out, BAUs can start to help close the case. The process that the BAU uses to determine information on criminals is a “criminal investigative analysis.” This process not only looks at crimes but also reviews them from two separate perspectives. They assess all the facts given to help interpret the offender’s behavior and their interaction their victim/s. With all the facts known they can help provide many services to ensure the FBI another winning case.
The FBI has over 35,000 employees hired in many of their offices. Their main headquarters is in Washington DC and they have 56 other field offices with approximately 360 smaller offices known as resident agencies. The headquarters in DC has an Executive Assistant Director for Criminal, Cyber, Response and Services Branch that looks over four separate divisions including the Critical Incident Response Group. Besides the director and deputy director this would be my boss if hired. In order to be apart of such a team I will need to start the requirement process. Once a four-year degree from Gannon University is obtained, as a United States citizen I could start to meet the necessities to work for the FBI. As a Behavioral Analysis I will need to have specialized training to even be eligible. This would include law enforcement experiences as a Special Agent. In order to achieve the Special Agent title phases of testing will need to be completed which pertain tests on logical reasoning, personal experience, analytical thinking and more but only if the preliminary requirements were met. These requirements must show that I can qualify for one of the five entry programs. Once completed and hopefully passed I would then be put into a separate group with the Critical Skills I pertain. If hired I will be under the Bureau’s pay which will provide me with a GS-10 pay to start and after remaining in the field for some time I can then be upgraded to a GS-13. The range of pay starts at $45771-$129517 from a GS10 to GS15 but not matter what the pay, I am looking for a job that I love and will be proud to tell everyone.
After all of the research that I looked at and wrote down I am positive that this is what I would like to do with my future. It will definitely take time to get to the end result but I know that I will still enjoy waking up every day knowing that I will get to go and do what I love. It is still intriguing to me because every day will not be the same like someone who has a desk job. Knowing each day will bring more to learn will make me proud to know I made it through years to get there.