Location: State College,PA, USA
The State College Borough is now accepting applications for police testing to join the State College Police Department (SCPD).
The 2025 available testing dates and locations are:
State College Municipal Building
243 South Allen Street, State College, PA 16801
All Purpose Room-Second Floor
* Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM
* Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
IUP Police Academy
Robertshaw Building, 650 S. 13th Street, Indiana, PA 15705
* Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
If you have an interest in helping people in need and protecting and serving a community, you are encouraged to consider an exciting and rewarding career as a State College Police Officer. The SCPD is a professional, progressive, state-accredited police department which values and cares about our employees and the diversity of our community. State College, along with the other Centre County communities, is a great area to have a high-quality of life and raise a family.
The Borough of State College is home to The Pennsylvania State University (PSU). Being the host community to a major university allows all who live, work, and visit State College to enjoy and celebrate a culturally diverse, vibrant, and caring community. In addition to the diversity, the State College community has a very young population with 70% of the State College Borough population being between 18 and 24 years of age. Our community is also a destination town with approximately 2 million guests visiting each year for special events such as home PSU football games and the Central PA Festival of the Arts held each July. All of this makes for a unique, exciting and enjoyable community to police.
The SCPD is looking for those with a diverse background that have a keen interest in law enforcement and who are trustworthy, dependable, adaptable, and courteous, communicate effectively, enjoy problem-solving and helping others, can be both a team player and work independently as the circumstances dictate, and would enjoy an exciting and rewarding challenge.
I've highlighted below some important information on our Police Officer Schedule/Benefits.
SC Patrol Officers work 12 hr. shifts
* 7a-7p or 7p-7A
* Mon ,Tue, Off, Off, Fri, Sat, Sun
* Off, Off, Wed, Thurs, Off, Off, Off
2024 Starting Base Salary
* $25.44/hr. in Academy
* $33.52/hr. on FTO
* $35.76 - 1st Year after FTO
* Over $90,000/year after 4 years
Medical - Dental - Vision
Tuition Assistance
112 holiday hours / year
Start with 24 hrs. Vacation hours/year
up to 192 hrs./year after 20 yrs.
Attached, please find more information about the State College Police Department and the testing process.
Please register no later than Saturday, December 22, 2024 for the police testing by going to the following link.
State College Borough is an equal opportunity employer (E.O.E.)
Position : 65181601
Code : 2024-39
Type : INTERNAL & EXTERNAL
Location : BOROUGH POLICE
Posting Start : 10/23/2024
Posting End : 12/22/2024
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