Behind the Badge
Behind the Badge

Bakersfield CA Police

BPD Recruitment

Police Trainee

Full-time
Upon satisfactory graduation from a Bakersfield Police Department P.O.S.T. Basic Course Police Academy, applicants will be appointed to a Police Officer.

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Police Officer - Academy Graduate/Lateral

Full-time
Under general supervision, performs professional duties in a sworn capacity pursuant to California Penal Code 830.1 and is responsible for protecting persons and property; enforcing state and local laws and ordinances; identifies, deters and investigates crime; contributes to the positive welfare of the community; and performs related work as required.

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Police Dispatcher I/II

Full-time
Under general supervision performs skilled work in receiving calls at the Communications Center, including requests for police, fire and medical aid services or to provide information.

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Sikh officers have strengthened the relationship between the Baskersfield Police Department and the area's immigrant Indian-American community.

Officers create bridge between Indian-American community and Bakersfield Police Department

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By Cindy Arora on News & Features

Editor’s note: As part of our 10th anniversary, Behind the Badge is sharing stories from our archives: This story is from September 17, 2021. November is Sikh Awareness and Appreciation month. A few years after 9/11, Sandeep Malhi was living in Long Beach and working as an intern with the Secret Service when he got a call from his parents who encouraged him to move home to become Bakersfield Police Department’s first – Punjabi police officer. Malhi, who had graduated from Fresno State with a degree in Criminology, was finishing his master’s degree and had dreams of working with the…

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