Police Officer (2026)

## Overview The wage range listed in this job requisition, reflects the current fiscal year (2026). $27.36 per hour reflects new hires who must attend the VT Police Academy. Applicants with law enforcement experience and valid certifications may be eligible for higher base compensation based on the current wage scale. ## Description Job Description **Title:** Police Officer **Department:** Police Department **Nature of work:** A Police Officer performs public service law enforcement duties such as enforcement of laws and ordinances, protection of life and property, detection, investigation, and prevention of crime, maintenance of public order and safety, and public service duties to the community. **Work Schedule:** The first two weeks of employment will consist of on-the-job orientation. Officers will work 8, 10 or 12-hour shifts including some weekends, holidays, daytime, and evening, for a total of 40 hours per week. Following successful completion of orientation officers will attend the Vermont Police Academy (VPA) for approximately 19 weeks. This training course is a residential program beginning at 6:00am Monday and ending at 5:00pm Friday. Officers may go home on weekends and holidays. Following successful completion of VPA training officers will participate in a 12-week field training course (FTEP). Officers will work a rotating schedule of days, evenings, and nights including some weekends and holidays. Following successful completion of FTEP officers will be assigned to a duty shift. Officers work some holidays and weekends and are occasionally subject to mandatory overtime. Officers are subject to recall to duty. All work over 40 hours in a week is compensated at overtime rates. **RESIDENCY:** Employees shall be required to have their place of abode in the Town, or a bordering town, and to be bona fide resident of the Town, or a bordering town. (A bordering town is defined as any town located within Windham County, Vermont, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, or Franklin County, Massachusetts) **Supervision Received:** Directly supervised by the Sergeant and/or Lieutenant assigned to their shift or unit and is generally supervised by superior officers. A Police Officer is expected to exercise individual judgement, initiative, and decision making within the framework of existing rules, regulations, and within their authority. **Supervision Exercised:** Exercises supervision over other Police Officers only when designated as the Officer in Charge (OIC) by existing rules and regulations. **Essential Responsibilities:** • Enforce the laws and ordinances of the town, state, and country. • Patrol an assigned area as directed. • Detect, investigate, and deter criminal activity. • Identify and gather evidence, conduct interviews, and conduct criminal investigations. • Assist in the preliminary investigation of serious incidents such as sexual assaults and homicides, suicides, and accidental deaths by restoring order, securing scenes, conducting interviews, and other duties as assigned. Identify traffic obstructions and other problems and address them to restore procedures. Detect, investigate, and deter motor vehicle violations. • Communicate with complainants and other parties during disturbances to mediate, identify solutions, refer parties to other services, and restore order. • Conduct basic first aid and CPR. • Conduct vehicle collision investigations. • Pursue suspects on foot by running. • Make arrests and take appropriate enforcement action consistent with existing laws and procedures. • Attend violent, unstable, and dangerous scenes to accomplish police objectives. • Utilize armed and unarmed physical force to defend yourself, restore order, make arrests, and subdue violent, resisting, and tumultuous people. • Prepare written and verbal reports, complete diagrams, and document incidents using current methods employed by the department and consistent with existing rules and regulations. • Testify truthfully in court, d…