Professional Standards is responsible for recruiting, hiring and internal affairs investigations. All new employees, both sworn officers and civilian employees are assessed and go through a background investigation before being hired. Applicants to become sworn officers complete the process prescribed by the Civil Service regulations. Police officer applicants that are hired attend state-mandated training at an accredited police academy if they haven’t previously completed one. Newly hired officers that have already completed an academy go directly to the field training program, generally a sixteen-week program designed to reinforce classroom and scenario training and to assess their readiness to be released from the program and assume their duties. Contact PSD at:
