West Long Branch - Class III Police Officer

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Job Overview

Department West Long Branch Police Department
TypeOther
Job TitleClass III Police Officer
Salary$38.00 per hour
Registration Fee$35.00
Contactmbotti@westlongbranch.org
Location West Long Branch, NJ

Job Announcement

West Long Branch Police Department, NJ Police Jobs

SLEO III

The West Long Branch Police Department is currently accepting applications for Class III Special Police Officer positions.  These officers will be assigned to our elementary school where they will perform safety and security duties.  Assignments will be for 40 hours per week at a rate of $38 per hour.

A person is eligible to be appointed as a Class III special law enforcement officer if he or she is a retired police officer less than 65 years old and has served as duly qualified, fully-trained, full-time municipal or county police officer or was regularly employed as a full-time member of the State Police.  

These officers are to be hired in a part-time capacity.

Qualifications for appointment:

  • He/she is a resident of this State during the term of appointment;
  • He/she is able to read, write and speak the English language well and intelligently and has a high school diploma or its equivalent;
  • He/she is sound in body and of good health;
  • He/she is of good moral character;
  • He/she has not been convicted of any offense involving dishonesty or which would make him unfit to perform the duties of his office;
  • He/she has successfully undergone the same psychological testing that is required of all full-time police officers in the municipality or county or, with regard to a special law enforcement officer hired for a seasonal period by a resort municipality which requires psychological testing of its full-time police officers, has successfully undergone a program of psychological testing approved by the commission.  

Further Qualifications include:

  • He/she must be a retired law enforcement officer who is less than 65 years of age; for the purposes of this paragraph, a law enforcement officer shall not be considered retired if the officer's return to employment violates any federal or State law or regulation which would deem the officer's retirement as not being bona fide;
  • He/she had served as a duly qualified, fully-trained, full-time officer in any municipality or county of this State [or as a]; State or county corrections officer, State juvenile corrections officer, or juvenile detention officer; or member of the State Police, and was separated from that prior service in good standing, within three years of appointment.
  • He/she is physically capable of performing the functions of the position, determined in accordance with Police Training Commission guidelines;
  • He/she possesses a New Jersey Police Training Commission Basic Police Officer Certification or New Jersey State Police Academy Certification, or has successfully completed training at the Corrections Officers' Training Academy of the Department of Corrections or at a basic training program for corrections officers and juvenile detention officers established by a county;

Please direct questions regarding this position to mbotti@westlongbranch.org


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