Overseas Jobs for Cops
Overseas jobs are hard to come by, but DynCorp International is hiring. The jobs are highly specialized: police officers and former military personnel are needed to work as international police trainers and border recruitment advisers in Iraq and Afganistan. Based Falls Church, Va., the company provides services to civilian and military agencies in many different foreign countries.
Recruiters from the company, which is based in Falls Church, Va., were in Oakland, Ca. recently, in an attempt to fill 400 vacancies. Oakland is one of the U.S. cities where law enforcement officers may be let go because of budget problems.
Pay for these overseas jobs is high: $118,000 to $134,000 a year, some of it exempt from income tax. Health insurance is provided and all equipment — from uniforms to hot and cold weather gear and weapons — is issued free of charge. A thorough background check is required. More than 6,000 men and women have been hired for international police jobs since 1994, when DynCorp first sent its employees to Haiti.