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Transit and Railroad Police

Protect and police railroad and transit property, employees, or passengers.

What you’d do

  • Prepare reports documenting investigation activities and results.
  • Monitor transit areas and conduct security checks to protect railroad properties, patrons, and employees.
  • Apprehend or remove trespassers or thieves from railroad property or coordinate with law enforcement agencies in apprehensions and removals.
  • Direct security activities at derailments, fires, floods, or strikes involving railroad property.
  • Patrol railroad yards, cars, stations, or other facilities to protect company property or shipments and to maintain order.
  • Investigate or direct investigations of freight theft, suspicious damage or loss of passengers' valuables, or other crimes on railroad property.
  • Examine credentials of unauthorized persons attempting to enter secured areas.
  • Enforce traffic laws regarding the transit system and reprimand individuals who violate them.

Skills that matter

  • Active Listening
  • Speaking
  • Critical Thinking
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Monitoring
  • Social Perceptiveness

How to get there

Medium preparation: usually vocational school, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree

Also called

  • Patrolman
  • Railroad Police
  • Railroad Police Officer
  • Transit Police Officer
  • Law Enforcement Officer
  • Patrol Man

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