Selene shrugged. "If I can change the opinion of one person at a time, over the years, the numbers will add up. I've been too active for too many years to ever be happy again turning my face from the world, living the quiet life." She laughed softly. "I have been accused of being an adrenaline addict occasionally. Six and a half centuries the soldier, another three and a half as one of the Elders of my people. It gets to be a habit."
She gestured to her phone, sitting face down on the table next to her. Even on her days off, Selene was always on call. "Since I rarely sleep, I have the time to keep up with the local network, keep my finger on the pulse of society. Another one of the conveniences of modern technology. There is some sort of drama going on with a few of the werewolf group - they call themselves a pack - that ended up with one of the young women getting her throat cut. Not fatally, fortunately. The one I mentioned was rather vocal about his displeasure on the network, the sort of reaction which has the potential to stir up the human population; I'm hoping things can be kept under control. Because of who, what, I am, I have learned to keep my emotions under control. I have to keep reminding myself that these all-too-mortal supernaturals simply don't have the years of experience to understand what sometimes must be done for the good of everyone concerned."
Selene sipped from her wine and thought for a few moments. "Since you don't have any experience, you would have to go through the training course, what they call the Police Academy. Some of us were able to test out of the required classes because we had prior experience. It is an interesting six months - deliberately high stress at first to see if you have the self control and self confidence to make it on the streets, and then for some time after that, you would work with a senior uniform officer on the street for a while before you get turned loose on your own. Get some experience, and you can transfer over to plainclothes if that appeals to you. Investigations, major crimes, that sort of police work. One thing I do not doubt you possess, all of us tend to acquire it during our first few hundred years, is a better than average understanding of people. How they think, what motivates them, how to get along with them. You also have the same advantage I have; you don't have to worry about the inherent dangers of the job. A few of the uniform officers were a little put out by my rapid advancement and the way I work the streets. Most of that changed when I stepped in front of one of them during an active shooter situation, took the bullets intended for him, barely slowed down. Some of us have become the cops that the cops call. I could see you working up to that if you wanted to devote the time."