Becoming a state trooper has a few different requirements than becoming a boston police officer or any other type of town law Enforcement. Being a state trooper is closer to being military than town law enforcement. Before you can even be considered for training there are nine different requirements needed to qualify.
Step one is to meet all of these requirements that (LawEnforcementEDU) has provided. First you must be at least twenty-one years of age and no older than thirty-five years of age. That does not mean you are retired at thirty-five it just means that is the latest you can become an officer. Next and most important you can not be convicted of a felony or drug offense under any circumstance. You can not have a criminal out defending people's rights as a police officer that is just too contradictory. You are not allowed to smoke any type of tobacco product mostly because of the physical requirements. As a police officer you will need to carry a firearm and be educated to an extent so in order to qualify you need to be suitable for a License to carry a firearm and have at least a high school diploma or equivalent. Obviously you need to be a citizen of not only the united states but massachusetts as well, also you must have a mass. Drivers license. Unfortunately you are not allowed to have any body art visible in the fitness uniform. Right now tattoos are not considered professional. Once you have checked yourself off for all of these requirements you need to apply and take an entrance exam. 
According to (LawEnforcementEDU) you can apply online at the commonwealth of Massachusetts online job portal. This is not a usual application. These applications are usually pages on pages. You can find the entrance exam info on the state police recruitment page or the commonwealth of massachusetts administration and finance page. According to (LawEnforcementEDU) The entrance exam consists of three parts with a 100 dollar entrance fee. First part is the (WAT) or Written abilities Test which will test your problem sensitivity, verbal comprehension, deductive reasoning, Inductive Reasoning, Information ordering, and verbal expression. The next part is the Life Experience Survey which is just used to find out about your past and former jobs. The last part is the Work Styles Questionnaire which is a way to find out what kind of person you are good or bad, hard worker or lazy, someone who will do what it takes to protect people. If you have passed this exam it means you will move on to the physical abilities test.Before you are allowed to take the physical abilities test you will need to complete a medical examination. You can find the requirements to pass this test on the state police website but once you pass it you will be able to take the the four step PAT that cost 150 dollars. You will complete the same tests as the boston police department test the obstacle course, trigger pull, separation event, and the dummy drag. Step six and seven kind of go together because you must pass a psych exam and a background check first then be interviewed. If you get through these three things you will be sent to State Trooper Academy where you will have about 6 months of classes and physical tests such as (LawEnforcementEDU)“firearms; self-defense tactics; criminal law; military drills; court procedures; ethics; community policing; and diversity awareness” after this you will graduate and be assigned to a barracks because you are now a Massachusetts state Trooper.
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