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Candidates
for the job of enforcement agent must have at least 60 semester hours of
college or two years of law enforcement experience or a combination. After being hired, cadets go through approximately
26 weeks of intensive physical and academic
training, which covers all general law enforcement
training equal to that of other state law enforcement officers. This is necessary
because agents have the same enforcement authority as these
officers. However, agents have additional enforcement
responsibilities that include enforcing the state's
recreational boating laws, the state and federal wildlife
laws, and general law enforcement work on the state's many
wildlife management areas.
Specific job duties include patrolling
land and water, either overtly or covertly, in an assigned
area of the state to primarily detect game, fish, and boating
law violations. These duties require travel into Louisiana's
forests, swamps, fields, streams, bayous, lakes, marshlands,
the Gulf of Mexico, and the state roadway system. Agents
travel by trucks, boats, ATV's, pirogues, and other
means. They generally check hunters, fisherman, and
boaters. They also check dealers, restaurants, breeders,
farmers, and transporters for compliance with regulations
governing limits, quotas, licenses, sizes, registrations,
legal documents, and accepted behavior. Search and rescue is
also a big part of the job, especially on the waterways of
the state.
For more information on how to become a Wildlife Enforcement Agent, click here.
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