Police Officer – Lateral
Salary: $90,708.80 – $127,608.00 Annually.
Closing Date: 4/7/2025
Essential Functions:
- Interviewing/questioning individuals as required
- Conducting lawful stops, pursuits, searches of persons or property, detentions, citations, and arrests of persons
- Securing crime and accident scenes
- Collecting and preserving evidence
- Responding to traffic accidents for investigation of cause, traffic control, hazard removal and identification and report of malfunction traffic control equipment
- Completing accurate, complete and timely reports and booking of evidence
- Testifying and presenting evidence in court proceedings
Requirements:
- Possession of a valid California Driver’s License by date of appointment and as a condition of continued employment.
- Must be a High School Graduate or possess a G.E.D Certificate from an accredited school.
- Must be a minimum of 21 years of age by date of completion of a California Police Officer Standards and Training (POST) approved Police Academy and be legally authorized to work in the United States under federal law.
- In-state lateral candidates must be currently employed as a Police Officer with a California law enforcement agency, maintain possession of a valid California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Basic Certificate or higher prior to employment, and have successfully completed a probationary period.
- Out-of-state candidates must have a California POST Basic course waiver prior to the start of the pre-employment background.
- All non-probationary Police Officers must possess and maintain a valid POST Basic Certificate as a condition of continued employment.