Criminal Justice Internships

Collaboration. Mentorship. Exploration.

• What is an Internship?
• Benefits of Doing an Internship
• Internship Sites
• Who to Contact

What is an Internship?
Potential employers are increasingly interested in hiring graduates who have had meaningful real-world criminal justice experience. Hilbert has long recognized the need to prepare its criminal justice students with hands-on, practical work experience while providing a valuable resource to law enforcement and related agencies. Using a network of more than 40 internship sites, all types of agencies offer criminal justice internships to our students, from police departments to probation to marshals' services.

Offered your senior year, internships take place either during the fall or spring semester and you'll receive academic credit for your efforts. This is your chance to make contributions to an organization and to demonstrate your potential value as a full-time employee after graduation.

Benefits of Doing an Internship
A criminal justice internship provides you with the opportunity to:

• Gain valuable criminal justice work experience before graduating.
• Check out your interest in the field.
• Clarify your interests, strengths and weaknesses that need to be worked on.
• Find out about additional job possibilities.
• Develop your intellectual, problem-solving and leadership skills.
• Gain relevant experience and skills, giving you greater potential to be hired by the agency or organization where you intern.
• Network with professionals in the criminal justice field.
• Gain a sense of self-confidence and professionalism.
• Bring classroom learning to life.
• Increase your job marketability in the criminal justice field.
• Narrow your focus and clarify your career goals

Internship Sites Who to Contact Edward Qualey
Chairperson of Criminal Justice
156 Paczesny Hall
716-926-8870

Hilbert's partnership with many local law enforcement agencies and organizations provides more than 40 internship sites from which to choose. Among some of the internship sites available are:

Federal

• U.S. Marshal’s Service
• U.S. Probation Service
• U.S. Customs Service
• U.S. Secret Service
• U.S. Attorney General
• Office of Congressman
• Veterans Administration of WNY Police Department
• U.S. Customs and Border Protection

State

• N.Y. State Attorney General’s Office – Consumer Fraud
• N.Y. State Attorney General’s Office – Organized Crime Task Force
• N.Y. State Police
• N.Y. State Department of Environmental Conservation
• N.Y. State Department of Corrections:
        Collins Correctional Facility or Gowanda Correctional Facility
        Brocton/Lakeview Shock Facility
        Wende Correctional Facility
• N.Y. State – Buffalo Halfway House – Glenwood Avenue

County

• Erie County Child Protection Services
• Erie County District Attorney Victim/Witness Program
• Erie County Probation
• Erie County Probation/Detention
• Erie County Sheriff’s Department
• Erie County Central Police Services Police Academy
• Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Department
• Niagara County Victim/Witness Program – Lockport
• Victim Assistance and Advocacy Organization (NW)
• Erie County Morgue – ECMC

Town/Village

• Amherst Town Police Department
• Town of Hamburg Domestic Violence Advocacy Program
• Town of Hamburg Police
• Town of Orchard Park Police
• Town of Evans
• Town of Tonawanda
• Town of West Seneca
• Town of Cheektowaga

Private

• American Axle – Security Department
• Baker Hall
• Child & Family Services – Shoplifting Prevention Program (Treatment based)
• Community Grief Center – Youth Program
• Compass House – Services for Youth
• Hilbert College Security Department
• Hopevale
• Gateway-Longview Youth & Family Service
• NIC Crime Victims Assistance Program
• Seneca Nation Reservation Police
• Youth Worker