Supervisor Interview

For my interview I choose to interview my supervisor, Tobie Sanderson.

Tobie is a crime analyst for the Mesa Police Department. She is in charge of adult, child contacts, homicide, rapes, traffic accidents, sonnet maps, and a lot more! Tobie started at the Mesa Public Library. When the recession hit Tobie decided to find a job that would be more stable. So, she applied for the police department. She was first hired on as a crime analyst tech, which is equivalent to what I do right now. She learned to read calls for services, how to operate RMS, data scrubbing, standardizing data, etc. When the job of crime analyst opened Tobie applied for it. She does not have a degree but all of the experience that she has made up for the degree. This is not how it is now. A bachelor degree that is related to the criminal justice field is required. Tobie has given me a lot of pointers and has shown me a lot over this semester. She was able to help me get an interview with the Chief for one of my classes and that was a really cool experience for me. As I begin to apply for jobs she has given me advice and the dos and donts. Tobie has told me that unfortunately with all the budget cuts tech jobs do not exist anymore. So, I plan to keep interning to get the experience that I need and want. I am very interested in this career because you have to be very organized and very motivated to be in this type of career. I have enjoyed my time that I have been able to spend with Tobie and I am very excited about all the things she has been teaching me!