Employment Opportunities
Why join the Daytona Beach Police Department?
....if you want to truly experience the challenge of policing.....DBPD offers a highly diverse policing experience! Tourism, Speedweeks, Bikeweek, Spring Break, plus a large residential base provides a unique depth of law enforcement knowledge and skills that are only available here.... We are the largest municipal police department on the Central Florida coast.
Benefits
- Tuition reimbursement program in furtherance of higher educational efforts.
- Career development training.
- Specialized police related training courses
- Uniforms and equipment, as well as your firearm, are issued at no cost to you
- Health insurance is provided to the employee with an option to include family members at a nominal cost
- Life insurance at no cost is one of the provided benefits
- Paid Holidays are provided, annual and sick leave earned at a rate based on your length of employment, is available
- Military reserve leave is made available
- Vacation sell back program and a Christmas bonus is provided at the end of the year, which is based on unused sick leave
- 12 hour shifts with every other weekend off
- Specialty training
- Promotion opportunities
- Paid uniform cleaning
- Assigned car program
- Salary Range: $34,301.28 to $58,095.96 annually
- Personal Leave Accrual: 192 Hours per year
- Holidays: 9 Paid holidays per year, plus your Birthday and Employee Appreciation Day.
- Pension Program: 3.38% Multiplier (20-year retirement)Military/Previous LE experience buyback (4 Yrs. Maximum.)
- Educational Incentives Plan
- Employee Fitness Center
Requirements
Candidates must be US citizens between the ages of 19 and 65 (applicant must be 19 before state certification to work as a Police Officer will be granted). You must have a High School diploma or acceptable equivalency diploma, (USAFI is not accepted). Corrected visual acuity at least 20/20 in one eye and 20/40 in the other. You must have a valid Florida driver’s license and an acceptable driving record for employment.
Candidates must possess a current valid Florida Law Enforcement Certification/Completion of the Minimum Standards (Police Academy /Rookie School) as set forth by the Florida Police Standards Council, as well as complete and pass the "Florida Officers Certification Examination" to be employed. Certificates of completion may be obtained through most Florida community colleges (Florida State Certification Test). The nearest class is held at Daytona State College (386) 506-3450. Out of State officers who feel they may be eligible to take the two week equivalency course should contact the Brevard Testing Center (321) 433-5642.
Parts to the examination:
- Psychological Exam
- Polygraph Exam
- Interview: Candidates who are being considered are interviewed by an Employee Review Board when openings occur.
- Medical examination: Candidates are given a thorough physical examination upon acceptance which must be passed, to assure employment.
- Background and Fingerprint Check
- Physical Abilities Test
Military: No service time is required; however if a veteran, you must have received other then a Dishonorable or Undesirable Discharge.
Police Record: Absence of convictions of felonies, or misdemeanors involving moral turpitude.