Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers

Most exposed tasks

Highest structured exposure values in this role’s task mix — the work AI systems can already do most of.

• Record facts to prepare reports that document incidents and activities.66
• Relay complaint and emergency-request information to appropriate agency dispatchers.65
• Evaluate complaint and emergency-request information to determine response requirements.64

Augmentable tasks

Work where AI assists rather than replaces — the productivity frontier of this role.

• Identify, pursue, and arrest suspects and perpetrators of criminal acts.58
• Testify in court to present evidence or act as witness in traffic and criminal cases.58
• Execute arrest warrants, locating and taking persons into custody.58

Most durable tasks

Lowest exposure — typically judgment, relationships, physical presence, or accountability. This is the human moat.

The current data release does not distinguish durable tasks for this role.

Task exposure values and classifications come from the versioned data release — they are structured data, not model output. Bars show exposure contribution relative to this role’s task mix.

What this means

A score of 55 puts Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers in the third quartile of analyzed occupations. In practice, exposure this high is about the mix: 5 of 20 analyzed tasks lean automatable, 15 augmentable, and 0 durable. The useful question isn’t “will AI take this job” — it’s which tasks go first, which get faster, and where to reposition time. That’s what the personalized report maps against your actual week.

One next move: audit how much of your week sits in the exposed tasks above — then shift time toward the durable set or investigate the adjacent roles below.

Lower-exposure adjacent roles

No adjacent role in the current data release is at least 10 points lower with ≥50% skill overlap — we don’t label anything “safer” unless the data supports it.

Labor-market context

• $76,210median wage
• 670,520employed
• 53,700annual openings
• +3.1%projected growth

Context only — labor statistics are not inputs to the exposure score. See methodology.

Related roles

Adjacent by skills or family — no exposure claim implied.

• Detectives and Criminal Investigators 63
• First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives 53
• Transit and Railroad Police 51
• Bailiffs 48
• Correctional Officers and Jailers 60
• Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists 56

FAQ — Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers

What does a score of 55 mean for a Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers?

It means that, weighted across the 20 tasks we analyzed for this role, the task mix sits at 55 on a 0–100 exposure scale — in the third quartile of analyzed occupations. It measures task exposure to current and near-term AI capabilities, not the probability of losing a job.

Which tasks in this role are most exposed to AI?

The highest-exposure tasks are: Record facts to prepare reports that document incidents and activities; Relay complaint and emergency-request information to appropriate agency dispatchers; Evaluate complaint and emergency-request information to determine response requirements. Exposure is scored per task from structured data, not generated by a language model.

Which parts of this job are most durable?

The current data release does not distinguish durable tasks for this role.

Is this score personalized to me?

No — this page shows the occupation-level baseline. Two people with the same title often do different work. The $9 personalized report recalculates the score from the tasks you actually do and builds a concrete 7/30/90-day plan around them.