Username, There is no requirement sate wise or in any dept. I know of that would require you to list all and any guns a police oficer may possess, nor would I if they tried to make us. The exception being if I want to carry said gun on duty, I must qualify with it and list the serial number stating that I have passed as a proficent shooter with desert eagle .50AE 5903375 or whatever. I also have to qualify with my ISSUED back up weapon if I want to keep it.
When I say "state" police certification I mean that any full time paid police officers whom receive pay from a governement entity must attend the Indiana law enforcement academy, other states call this P.O.S.T. or Police officer standard and training certification. This inculdes campus police officers, and school resource police officers. Here in my state as well as others it's not required or possible to for reserve law enforcement officers or special deputies to go to the academy, of which the constables fall into that catagory. So the end result is we have a certain group of people with the power to take away peoples freedom rolling around telling people things like the above poster encountered about his firearms permit they have never been trained on and only heard of, from other people and have no idea if said law or stipulation is even current.
As far as your statement goes that my job is not hard I would repectfully disagree. I've been a beat cop for 18 years. It is quite diferent then being a school police officer or constable. In fact its the only job I know of outside of being a soldier that alters who you are so completely. The only difference being war changes you in a split second. Being a street cop changes you slowly over time, and you don't even realize it till you wake up one day and it hits you.... you have PTSD you snap at people you love for no reason and you have to find the you who started doing the job because you truely wanted to make society better.
I hate telling cop stories because it sounds like braging, but I know few other professions I could have went into where I would have been struck by a car jacker in a mini-van, shot at, sued for actions I've taken in the course of my work, malicously had certified unfounded complaints filed against me in retaliation for doing my job that stay in my file, and have to deal with bosses who have lost touch with what its like to be in the trenches everyday draggiing dead babies out of pools and seeing good folks killed in tradigic ways.