Before they wore badges, they showed up in other ways. Some came from the armed forces with habits already drilled in. Others had regular jobs and a simple job ID clipped to a shirt. A few even used clean headshots as their calling card. The faces are ordinary, but the pull toward service is already there.
That’s the thread that ties this set together. Military experience became academy class. Warehouse shifts, campus posts, and TV work turned into patrols and callouts. However they started, the goal was the same: serve the community and find a way onto the Force.
1. Before becoming an “Untouchable”, Eliot Ness worked as and investiator for the Retail Credit Co.
2. Mr. Poisson joined the Force when he moved to America
3. Believe it or not, Shaq has served as a Sheriff’s Deputy in Clayton County
4. Before the Army and the Force, Mr. Collins worked at the Wolverhampton Gas Cmpany
5. Before becoming Deputy of Socorro County at the Sheriff’s Department, Lou Ferrigno used to present himself with his best bodybuilder shots
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6. First a Marine, then a cop
7. Headshots were the job ID cards for Steven Seagal before becoming a Reserve Deputy of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office in LA
8. After the steel corp, Mr. Lorcy became a cop
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9. Ken Osmond went from “Leave It to Beaver” to the LAPD, where he retired after being wounded
10. This young man joined the Force after serving
11. Elvis served in the Army and also as a Special Deputy at the Shelby County Sheriff’s Department
12. Ms. Queen went from Aircraft Corporation to patrolling the streets of California
13. After years as a TV cop, Erick Estrada became a real-life Reserve Police Officer in St. Anthony
14. Serving the people was always his plan
15. This young man ended up being a cop, too
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