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SAPD Recruitment

Police Officer Recruit

Full-time
Police Recruits are non-sworn (civilian) employees who attend a police academy to prepare for a career in law enforcement.

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Police Officer Lateral Transfer

Full-time
Trained and experienced police professionals who can assume the full range of policing duties after a brief orientation.

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Police Officer Academy Graduate

Full-time
Following a Field Training Officer Program, graduates assume the full range of professional law enforcement duties.

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Police Cadet

Part-time
This program is designed to be a constructive gateway to a career in law enforcement and designed for applicants who are between the ages of 18-25.

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Correctional Officer

Full-time
Under general supervision, performs functions related to the incarceration and care of inmates during a shift.

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Police Services Dispatcher

Full-time
Under general supervision on an assigned shift, receives calls for service and dispatches appropriate personnel and equipment utilizing computer aided dispatch, telephone and/or radio communications equipment.

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Santa Ana Police Chief Robert Rodriguez speaks to the families of Santa Ana’s newest police officers after the OC Sheriff’s Department Regional Training Academy Class of 257 Graduation Ceremony. New officers, from left, are Bryan Cadena, Jesus Guzman, Daniel Jurado, Jackson Egg, Alexander Selevos and Bryan Mercado. Photo by Steven Georges/Behind the Badge

Santa Ana Police Department’s success highlights value of pre-academy

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By Greg Mellen on News & Features, Recruitment

If the Santa Ana Police Department needed affirmation of its decision to create a pre-academy for recruits entering the Orange County Sheriff’s Basic Academy, the ceremonies of Academy Class 257 were a rousing validation. Santa Ana’s newest crop of officers ran the table at the celebration at the Regional Training Academy in Tustin. In a class of 56 graduates from nine agencies, all six Santa Ana officers successfully completed the Academy, considered by many as one of the tougher and more stressful police academies in the country. Not only did the Santa Ana contingent pass, they surpassed. Consider: Five of…

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