The Louisville Police Department has a great opportunity for someone wanting
to pursue a career in law enforcement. We are looking for non-POST (Peace
Officer Standards & Training) candidates. We will send you to a POST
Academy at a date to be determined. We use the Adams County Flatrock Police
Academy, Arapahoe Community College, and Aims Community College for our
Police Cadets.
The academy is full time, 5 days per week (no vacations) during the
6-month training duration.
As a Louisville Police Cadet your tuition for the academy is paid for by the
City of Louisville as well as receiving an annual salary of $67,683.20.
Upon successful completion of the academy you will move into the Police Cadet
FTO program at the City of Louisville. Your annual salary will increase to
$71,073.60 as a Step 2 Cadet in FTO training. Once you have successfully
completed the Police Cadet FTO program, your annual salary will increase to
the Police Officer Step 1, which is paid an annual salary of $75,212.80.
Once graduated from the academy and our FTO program, a Louisville Police
Officer will work under the general supervision of a Police Sergeant or Police
Corporal, perform a wide variety of police and law enforcement duties,
and is expected to respond to any and all situations that require a public
safety presence. Police Officers are expected to protect life and property,
maintain public order, conduct investigations, handle traffic enforcement
and code enforcement, apprehend and arrest offenders, conduct civil
processes, work with schools, business and community groups to foster good
citizen/police relationships and pro-actively reduce crime. Police Officers
must be capable of using physical force, including deadly force, to
protect citizens and apprehend criminal suspects; provide medical
services, help the mentally ill, conduct searches, and make public
presentations. Police Officers are held to the highest ethical code of
conduct while both on-duty and off- duty. The Police Cadet and Police Officer
positions involve an especially thorough pre-employment background investigatio