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City Of Louisville Police Cadet in Louisville, Colorado
The Louisville Police Department has a great opportunity for someone wanting to pursue a career in law enforcement. We are looking for non-POST (Peace Officer Standards & Training) candidates. We will send you to a POST Academy at a date to be determined. We use the Adams County Flatrock Police Academy, Arapahoe Community College, and Aims Community College for our Police Cadets.
The academy is full time, 5 days per week (no vacations) during the 6-month training duration.
As a Louisville Police Cadet your tuition for the academy is paid for by the City of Louisville as well as receiving an annual salary of $67,683.20. Upon successful completion of the academy you will move into the Police Cadet FTO program at the City of Louisville. Your annual salary will increase to $71,073.60 as a Step 2 Cadet in FTO training. Once you have successfully completed the Police Cadet FTO program, your annual salary will increase to the Police Officer Step 1, which is paid an annual salary of $75,212.80.
Once graduated from the academy and our FTO program, a Louisville Police Officer will work under the general supervision of a Police Sergeant or Police Corporal, perform a wide variety of police and law enforcement duties, and is expected to respond to any and all situations that require a public safety presence. Police Officers are expected to protect life and property, maintain public order, conduct investigations, handle traffic enforcement and code enforcement, apprehend and arrest offenders, conduct civil processes, work with schools, business and community groups to foster good citizen/police relationships and pro-actively reduce crime. Police Officers must be capable of using physical force, including deadly force, to protect citizens and apprehend criminal suspects; provide medical services, help the mentally ill, conduct searches, and make public presentations. Police Officers are held to the highest ethical code of conduct while both on-duty and off- duty. The Police Cadet and Police Officer positions involve an especially thorough pre-employment background investigatio