# Entry Level Police Officer

**Company**: Salt Lake City Police Department
**Location**: Salt Lake City, UT
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $36.69 per hour
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Law Enforcement

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## Description

As an Entry Level Police Officer with the Salt Lake City Police Department, you will play a crucial role in maintaining public safety and enforcing laws.

The role involves responding to emergency situations, making critical decisions, and taking action to prevent or detect crime.

Responsibilities:

- Suppress crime through identification and apprehension of criminals and recovery of stolen property

- Regulate non-criminal conduct, such as traffic control, crowd control, and social relations

- Compile and prepare required information and evidence to assist in prosecution of criminal cases

- Report to scenes of accidents and investigate causes and results of accidents

- Respond to robbery and burglary alarms and other misdemeanor and felony crimes

- Secure the scene of crime, conduct preliminary investigations, gather evidence, obtain witnesses, and make arrests

- Make investigations of vice and narcotics activities, identify and recover stolen property, and conduct special investigations

- Maintain knowledge of criminal and civil law, and police techniques and tactics

- Attend regular training classes in police methods

- Provide peripheral services such as giving information, directions, advice, and general assistance to the public

Requirements:

- High school diploma or equivalent

- Be 21 years of age by the time you're certified as a law enforcement officer

- Be either a U.S. Citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the United States with five years of legal U.S. residency

Benefits:

- Paid training and certification

- Competitive pay starting at $36.69 per hour

- Full City benefits, including health, dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, and supplemental benefits

- Take-home vehicles and equipment provided

The hiring process typically takes 4-8 months and includes a physical agility test, oral board interviews, and a background investigation.

## Skills

### Required
- law enforcement
- criminal law
- emergency response
- communication skills
- physical fitness

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