Clinton Jaws - Becoming a Cop with Past Drug Use

Episode Date: January 7, 2021

Your becoming a cop with past drug use. What are your chances. When I was a RCMP member, I spent some time working in the RCMP recruiting section. Applicants who had past drug use were not necessarily eliminated from the RCMP process. It is still possible to become a cop. Although I am speaking from an RCMP perspective, a lot of Police forces worldwide share the same rules with respect to applicants and prior drug use. Call the hotline number voice message only 604-330-2512 https://www.clintonjaws.com/ https://www.facebook.com/clinton.jaws.7/ https://open.spotify.com/show/3hWntbop6gLEg6RFR0aOzJ https://twitter.com/ClintonJaws

It's amazing to me. She goes on CTV, whatever it is, and doesn't once talk about the chief's behavior. Doesn't once talk about him being combative. Just wants to talk about over the line, crossing the line. What are you doing? Let's take another call, okay? I know I'm rambling.

Why am I talking like this? Let's take another call. Let's take one more call. see what this dude has to say okay I need to calm down hey Clint my name is Alex I'm from Manitoba

thank you for calling Alex appreciate it I like it when you call what do you got to say I'm a subscriber you know love the podcast love your very objective

no bullshit point of view at you know your videos or your view as well they resonate with me and I love it. So reason for the call, I need someone in the RCMP or former RCMP to be brutally honest with me because I haven't been able to get a straight answer. So I'm 25 now.

Currently I run a personal training department for a gym, and I'm a record holding powerlifter, and I really want to get into the RCMP. Reason for the call, though, is it's been five years now. I've waited to apply, but I did have some... recreational drug use in my past when I was, you know, 19 or 20. It was very casual, marijuana. I don't even smoke marijuana anymore, even though it's legal. And I haven't been quite a while.

But five years ago, went to a music festival and tried some things a little bit more serious, a little bit of cocaine, mushrooms. I believe it was LSD, I don't even really know, and MDMA. So I've done these all once, and it was in, one occasion at a music festival. Obviously, I regret it, and I haven't done it since, and that is the truth. But I need someone to be straight up with me. Is it even worth me apply? Because I don't want to waste a year, year and a half of my life really pursuing this if it's just wishful thinking and it's never going to happen. See, yeah, man, don't worry about

hearing my feelings. You can be brutally honest. Keep it up, love the podcast, and hopefully you can get a chance to, you know, answer my question, okay? Thanks. Thanks for calling, dude. Appreciate it. Love it. Love it. Love the question, too. Marijuana, eh? Wow. I can't wrap my head around it that marijuana is legal. All my life, it was bad. Bad, bad, bad. Don't do it before you're a cop. You're not going to become a cop. It's criminal. I can't wrap my head around that. It's legal. It's legal and kind of fun. It's fun. I don't smoke it all the time. Very rarely. But it's amazing to me that I used to hunt you down, arrest you, seize your weed. You guys used to hide it in your asses. Now my parents are moisturizing

their skin with it. It doesn't even make sense to me anymore. It doesn't make sense to me. And don't tell me it's not a gateway gateway drug because now I'm drinking it. eating it. Incredible. Like I said, I don't do it all the time. I'm glad that it's... Am I glad that it's legal? I don't know. Why am I talking about it?

I remember the first time it got delivered to my house. I'm sitting at my front window and I see Canada Post show up. She comes out with a huge box. I'm like, that's drugs. She's walking to my door with drugs. I run down to the stairs. I open the door and I'm like, get in. Canada Post thought it was.

She didn't even know she was trafficking marijuana. It's incredible. It's incredible. Do I like that? It's legal. Not all that much. I don't want anybody under the age of 25 trying it because it's going to screw up your head. Could screw up your mind. Could screw up your brain while you're developing. I don't like that. Okay. I'll answer your question. I think you're going to be a good cop. If that's all you've done wrong, you got nothing to worry about. You should apply. Five years? Perfect. You did it five years ago? Awesome. That's the key. You're allowed to experiment. Yeah, you did cocaine. You're allowed to experiment. You don't do cocaine now. If you did anything right now, if you went to cocaine right now, you wouldn't become a cop. You experimented when you were younger 1920, now you're 25. You're allowed to do it. You talked about other things. That's fine. You went to a music fest. You did all this. But don't say, you said something like, I think I tried this, I don't even know.

When you fill up the pre-employment prolograph questionnaire, okay, I know you have to be honest, but don't make things up. If you really don't know, then don't put it down. They want you to be honest, but they don't have to be completely honest, guys. Oh, I said that. But it's true. If I was completely honest, I'd be divorced.

Like, nobody is completely honest. So don't start, you know, making things. things up in your head, well, maybe it was this. Maybe it was a touch of meth in there. Just say what you know for a fact and put it down. If you don't know for a fact, then don't put it down. If I'm in recruiting and I'm interviewing you, Alex, Ed, that's the only thing that maybe there's an issue with your resume, you're getting in. You're getting in and, unless something else pops up. But no, that's not going to hold you back. And you're a power You got some kind of record.

You could use that in your interview. How were you a leader? That's dedication. You had to wake up at this time. You had to eat 26 meals a day to do that. That's you're flexible somehow, I guess. Like show flexibility, dedication, leadership. That's got to be some kind of integrity.

You'd be an honest to yourself. You got to eat. You got to fuel the body. You got to get that record. What do you got to do to get that record? You had to do all these obstacles. You can go on and on and on in the interview about it. How you're a power lifter and I guess that's all I want to say about that.

Yeah. No BS. I'm not bullshit in you. And five years ago, worth applying. Yeah, it is. Do not put, do not hang out with anybody that does cocaine. You're going to get deferred. Okay?

If you are doing that right now, separate yourself. So you could say, well, year ago, I hung out. with them but not anymore because you're going to be asked that you're going to be asked how many times have you done i wish police would go back into schools and start at grade 10 start at grade 10 and say if you want to become a cop don't do drugs