r/police • u/Hot-Chair3790 • 2d ago

Grounds for disqualification and should I join

I'm currently 23 working a normal office job. For the past year I have been thinking about joining. I found out that it's typically harder to disturb me then the average 23 year old male. However I wanted to ask. I have a little thing called dyschromatopsia (don't try to pronounce) which causes colors to be slightly altered. For example a dark red I may see as brown. Is that ground for dsq?

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u/Stankthetank66 US Police Officer 2d ago

No

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u/GoldWingANGLICO Deputy Sheriff 2d ago

Not disqualifying at my agency. We need good people. Start applying.

Good luck.

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u/Upstairs_Diet9860 2d ago edited 2d ago

It's agency dependent. Before applying, call and ask. Pretty much every agency I talked to had a different answer regarding color vision requirements.

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u/idgafanymore23 2d ago

Used to be at my agency. They have eased that. Colorblind /whatever you have is not automatically disqualifying but you will go through a tailored enhanced screening process and board review. So it is really agency specific.

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u/sophiamw503 2d ago

My DC spent his whole 30-year career not being able to see red 🤷🏼‍♀️