Police Officer

Police Officer

Position Type:
Police Department & Security

Date Posted: 5/26/2026

Location:

Police Department

Date Available:

As soon as possible

Closing Date: 06/02/2026

Please note that this posting closes at 3:00 pm on the date listed above.

GSDPD offers year-for-year lateral service credit up to Step 11.

Salary Range: $33.60 to $48.09 per hour.

Duties include the prevention and/or detection of criminal activity and the general enforcement of city, county, state and federal laws and ordinances, along with Granite School District policies and procedures, involving any student, teacher, staff, administrator, patron or property of the school district. Police officers routinely patrol the properties of the school district and serve as School Resources Officers. They respond on silent burglar/fire alarms, dispatched crimes in-progress and calls for service of a police nature.

Maintains a clean, safe, healthy, and secure educational environment for the Granite School District. Attendance, physical presence, and timeliness are required and are essential functions of this position.

• Routinely inspects district facilities to prevent and/or detect acts of vandalism, burglary, arson, theft, assault, trespass, alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug consumption, weapons offenses, gang violence and various other unusual or unlawful activities.
• Responds to emergency calls for service, including crimes-in-progress, and various bodily injury situations.
• Responds to all dispatched, silent burglar alarms located on all district facilities in assigned patrol area.
• Inspects the facility for evidence of forced entry and assesses the need to call for additional officers and/or K-9 units, to assist in searching the building for suspects.
• Responds to all fire alarms, located on district facilities within assigned patrol area, along with the appropriate city and/or county fire departments.
• Apprehends and arrests suspects involved in all types of criminal activities and, where applicable, transports same to appropriate incarceration facilities for formal booking.
• Enforces all city, county, state and federal laws and ordinances, as well as district rules and policies, pertaining to school district properties and personnel.
• Responds to after-hour and weekend or holiday emergency calls for district maintenance services in assigned patrol area.
• Assesses the nature of the problem and has dispatch call out appropriate maintenance personnel and equipment.
• Actively patrols district facilities, school grounds and parking lots, as well as neighboring businesses and subdivisions, in search of truants, trespassers and lost or missing persons.
• Works with school staff to either return the truant to assigned school or class, or transports chronic truants to appropriate youth service facility.
• When appropriate takes custody of students and transports them to appropriate youth service or detention facilities.
• Counsels with disruptive/problem students.
• Performs routine warrant/juvenile pickup order checks on suspects in custody and persons stopped for traffic violations, trespassing etc.
• Books suspects into jail or youth detention if they have outstanding warrants or active pickup orders.
• Submits daily written or computer-generated reports on all activities occurring during each shift.
• Submits supplemental reports to various other law enforcement agencies upon request or when appropriate.
• Prepares own case file packet to be used by police department investigator when screening criminal cases with city/county prosecutors and makes appropriate court appearances.
• Packages, tags or photographs own evidence to be stored in department evidence room or submitted to crime lab, according to the requirements of state law, as well as department policy and procedure standards.
• Routinely works with highly confidential material such as criminal background information, confidential law enforcement reports and intelligence bulletins, personnel files, financial records, etc.
• Transports evidence to state crime lab for processing.
• Interviews suspects, locates and interviews witnesses and serves arrest warrants on suspects already booked in jail.
• Monitors and may participate in District School Board Meetings and other meetings at the request of the Chief or other administrators.

• Other duties as assigned

• Requires a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Requires current POST certification.

• Gun assessments and certification.
• Physical and endurance assessments.
• Attend conventions, seminars, and professional workshops throughout the year to receive formal training related to various facets of law enforcement.

• No prior work experience required.
• Must have references as to dependability, integrity, and ability to remain calm and objective in emotionally charged situations.

• Certification at the police shooting range.
• Certification with…