Police Officer – Lateral Transfer
Salary: $34.60 to $43.22 per hour
Closing Date: October 26, 2026
Position Summary:
This sworn, professional position performs a variety of patrol, investigation, traffic regulation, and related law enforcement activities in the interest of maintaining law and order, suppressing crime, and protecting life and property.
The work involves the following types of activities: arrest and detention; search and seizure; criminal investigation; evidence collection; patrol operations; traffic and OMVWI enforcement; traffic accident investigation; use of firearms and weapons; first aid/first responder situations; conflict mediation/civil disorder situations; crime prevention and community relations; and court functions.
This position may also be assigned to specialist assignments, including school resource officer, K-9 officer, crime prevention, court services, criminal investigations, vehicle and equipment maintenance, and youth services.
Requirements:
- Applicants must be 18 years of age or older.
- Applicants must possess a general educational development diploma or be a high school graduate who has completed a secondary education program through a public school, private school, an equivalency diploma program, or home education program within the United States or its territories.
- Law enforcement or tribal law enforcement officers employed on or after February 1, 1993, must possess either a two-year associate degree from a Wisconsin technical college system district or its accredited equivalent from another state or a minimum of 60-accredited credits. An applicant for law enforcement or tribal law enforcement employment who has not met this standard at the time of initial law enforcement or tribal law enforcement employment must meet the standard by the end of their fifth year of employment.
- Applicants must possess a valid Wisconsin driver’s license or other such valid operator’s permit recognized by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation as authorizing operation of a motor vehicle in Wisconsin.
- Applicants must not have been convicted of any federal felony or of any offense which if committed in Wisconsin could be punished as a felony unless the applicant has been granted an absolute and unconditional pardon.
- Applicants for employment as a law enforcement or tribal law enforcement officer must not have been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence as defined in 18 USC 921(a)(33), convicted of domestic abuse as defined in § 968.075(1)(a), Wis. Stats., or convicted of a crime that is subject to the imposition of the domestic abuse surcharge under § 973.055(1), Wis. Stats., regardless of whether any part 28 of the surcharge was waived by the court under § 973.055(4), Wis. Stats., unless the applicant has been granted an absolute and unconditional pardon.
- Wisconsin State Statute §66.0501(1) states that no person may be appointed deputy sheriff of any county or police officer of any city, village or town unless that person is a citizen of the United States. This section of statute does not apply to common carriers or to a deputy sheriff not required to take an oath of office.