2022 Fall Internships - Police, 911 Dispatcher, or Crime Scene
Gwinnett County Police Department - Internship Program
Fall Semester Beginning Between: 2022 August - 2022 December
(DEADLINE: June 1, 2022)
Applications to participate in the intern program are accepted from students currently enrolled in a degree program at an accredited college or university.
The internship must be a requirement to complete the degree program and credit hours offered for completion.
Applicants must submit a personal resume along with a letter of recommendation from the intern coordinator of the college/university or the department head.
The letter of recommendation should include:
- Notice of student in good standing
- Minimum number of hours required
- Number of credit hours awarded upon completion
- Start and end dates of the internship
Only a select number of interns will be accepted per quarter/semester. Please complete your application through the provided link in order to be considered for the program.
All selected interns will report to the intern coordinator, Master Police Officer R.C. Leggett. This is a non-profit unpaid internship.
Even though it states this position as "full-time", the hours depends on the colleges/universities requirements. Handshake won't allow me to check both full and part time, but some schools request less hours than others. We base the hours around the students schedule as well.
Police Officer Interns will be provided a chance to experience what it is like to be a Gwinnett County Police Officer. They will be placed with the Uniform Division and observe how GCPD Officers go through their daily duties. Interns will record their encounters by writing a daily summery and turning it in to the GCPD intern coordinator. Selected interns will have to provide minimum number of hours required by their school in order to receive credit for completion.
Crime Scene Interns must have a major with a concentration in forensic science to apply. Interns will observe and have some hands-on opportunities with our CSI unit during their day and evening shifts. Our CSI unit is made up of non-sworn employees with a forensic science background, so the intern will be able to shadow our CSI unit and observe what they do on a daily bases.
911 Dispatcher Interns will be placed in our communications unit and observe what it takes to be a 911 dispatcher on a daily bases. Interns will observe the high call volume in Gwinnett County along with the intensity of how some 911 calls can be in the life of a 911 dispatcher.
Placement will be determined on availability and the number of hours your school requires for credit. Interns will meet with the intern coordinator once a month to turn in monthly evaluation forms and discuss any questions and concerns. A final evaluation will be completed on the interns final day to provide feedback, as well as, information on how to apply for open positions we can provide after the intern graduates.
EMPLOYMENT LAWS AND RULES
INTERNS AND TRAINEES
The following seven criteria apply when making this determination:
- The extent to which the intern and the employer clearly understand that there is no expectation of compensation. Any promise of compensation, express or implied, suggests that the intern is an employee—and vice versa.
- The extent to which the internship provides training that would be similar to that which would be given in an educational environment, including the clinical and other hands-on training provided by educational institutions.
- The extent to which the internship is tied to the intern’s formal education program by integrated coursework or the receipt of academic credit.
- The extent to which the internship accommodates the intern’s academic commitments by corresponding to the academic calendar.
- The extent to which the internship’s duration is limited to the period in which the internship provides the intern with beneficial learning.
- The extent to which the intern’s work complements, rather than displaces, the work of paid employees while providing significant educational benefits to the intern.
- The extent to which the intern and the employer understand that the internship is conducted without entitlement to a paid job at the conclusion of the internship.
All of the factors listed above are met, an employment relationship does not exist under the FLSA, and the Act’s minimum wage and overtime provisions do not apply to the intern. This exclusion from the definition of employment is necessarily quite narrow because the FLSA’s definition of "employ" is very broad.
For more information, see WHD Fact Sheet #71: Internship Programs Under The Fair Labor Standards Act.
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