Police Recruit

About this role

<div style="color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);"><strong><strong>Your Career Starts Here!</strong></strong></span></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0em;color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;text-align: left;">Chula Vista Police Department is a progressive organization that welcomes diversity, encourages innovation, and rewards employee performance. &nbsp;The CVPD promotes employee involvement in decision-making and problem solving. Through this commitment to inclusiveness, the CVPD receives strong support and an exemplary approval rating from the community.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0em;color: inherit;font-style: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;text-align: left;">There are significant opportunities for career advancement through the CVPD. &nbsp;We’re seeking motivated individuals who are beginning their careers, as well as those interested in a career change. &nbsp;Prior law enforcement experience is welcome but not required.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: inherit; font-style: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-align: center;"><span contenteditable="false" draggable="true" class="fr-vi

Requirements

<u><strong>Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:</strong></u><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);font-style: normal;text-indent: 0.0px;">Knowledge of: customer service; modern office practices and procedures; computer equipment and software applications related to assignment; basic mathematics; English usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation. Ability to: participate in all physical training exercises; learn and participate in classroom lectures; prioritize and coordinate several activities/assignments; learn and apply procedures and techniques learned in the police academy, including community-based policing, familiarization between law enforcement and community residents and collaborative problem solving; use initiative and sound independent judgment within estab