Patrol Officer - El Dorado Police Department

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Hourly Range: $23.29‑34.96

* Starting pay is determined through our structured step‑guidance placement process. This system helps ensure fair and consistent offers by reviewing each candidate’s education, experience, specialized skills, and overall qualifications. Your exact starting rate will fall within the posted range and will reflect where you are placed in the step‑guidance system.

• Medical, dental and vision (up to 80% paid by the City of El Dorado)
• Sick & Personal leave
• Work‑Life Balance programs: military leave, civil leave, bereavement leave
• On‑duty workout time with on‑site workout facility
• YMCA membership allowance, good at any Greater‑Wichita YMCA location ($15 a month paid by the City of El Dorado)
• KP&F Retirement with DROP eligibility
• Optional 457(b) deferred compensation plan
• EMPAC Employee Assistance Program

Visit the Benefits and Compensation page for more information.

Regular, full‑time employees will be eligible for health insurance benefits on the first day of the month following sixty days of full‑time employment. Health insurance benefits include medical, prescription, dental and vision.

The El Dorado Police Department is a highly progressive and professional agency providing dedicated service to the citizens of El Dorado since 1917. Our motto "Community Safety, Partners in Service" states the essential purpose of the El Dorado Police Department. We protect the rights of all persons within our jurisdiction to be free from criminal attack, to be secure in their possessions and to live in peace.

We have an authorized force of 26 sworn officers and we want you to join our team.

Serves as a liaison officer to the community assuring the best public relations for the City and that all laws and regulations are followed.

Patrol Related

Activities:

Meets with previous shift members when reporting to duty and receives updated information and assignments ensuring professionalism. Patrols assigned areas and monitors activities within the assigned beat, maintaining an awareness of potential problems and suspicious activity. Conduct traffic and parking enforcement. Calls:
Responds appropriately and notifies dispatcher of arrival on scene. Takes appropriate enforcement or control action as required, ensuring that department procedures are followed and that civilians and responding officers are safe. Completes investigation, makes determination regarding enforcement action required, processes the scene and completes reports and documentation as required, ensuring timeliness and accuracy. Conducts and completes any required follow‑up activities including collection of evidence and interviewing witnesses/suspects, ensuring proper procedures are followed.

Provides back‑up coverage to responding officer when incidents are dispatched.

Community Policing:
Establishes and maintains communication by the frequent use of personal contact with the community. Represents the department in continual interaction with various other social service agencies to combine all resources, ensuring the best community service.

• High School Diploma or GED Equivalent
• Valid Kansas Driver’s License
• Ability to obtain State of Kansas patrol officer certification through Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center
• Within 6 months of hire, must live within 30 minutes of corporate city limits
• * Any or all requirements may be waived at the discretion of the City Manager, Police Chief, or designee

• 21 years of age or older before hire date.
• Citizen of the United States.
• If military service has been rendered, discharge must be honorable or equivalent.
• Previous law enforcement certificate must not be revoked by the State of Kansas or any other state.
• Has not been convicted, and does not have an expunged conviction for a crime which is a felony or felony level equivalent under the uniform code of military justice.
• Has not been placed on diversion on or after July 1, 1995, by any state of the federal government for a crime which is a felony or its equivalent…