Protective Service

The term Protective Services is a pretty wide umbrella—essentially, it covers keepers of the peace for any community or resource that needs to be actively protected. Police officers and detectives. Animal control workers. Criminal justice officers and agents. Fire fighters, municipal and forest, as well as fire investigators. Security guards. Fish and game wardens.

With such a wide range of specializations, you may find one area of extreme interest to you among many others that aren’t. So explore—take a look at the Protective Services career fields listed below. If you click any one of them, you'll be connected to clear, detailed information as to the job responsibilities and rewards.

Within Protective services, the career outlooks are strongest for professionals who have specialized—criminal investigation and being a fish and game warden, for example, are very different, but both are professions that involve a high level of skill, and it takes credentialed study and training to be successful in those fields.