Police Officer; Test Date

ONLINE Final date to receive applications: 10/16/2026
CONFIRMATION DATE: 10/19/2026
TEST DATE: 10/23/2026
CHECK IN: 8:00AM - 8:30AM
LOCATION: 2610 Observation Trail Suite 103, Rockwall 75032

*** IF YOU DO NOT CONFIRM, YOU WILL NOT TEST***

You will receive an email from  containing confirmation instructions and additional details regarding the test day. Please check your spam or junk folder if you do not see it in your inbox. If you have not received this email by October 19, 2026
, please contact Sgt. Steven Brassil at or via email at
STUDY GUIDE: Available for $7.50 at City Hall, 385 South Goliad Street, Rockwall, TX 75087
, payable by cash or money order to the City of Rockwall during regular business hours,
Monday through Friday, 8:00AM – 5:00PM or online at Stanard & Associates.

PHYSICAL AGILITY: Please arrive in appropriate athletic attire and bring water. Headphones are permitted during the physical agility portion. 2000-Meter Row Guidelines are available here: PD Testing Guidelines.

IMMEDIATE EMPLOYMENT DISQUALIFIERS: All candidates must review the Immediate Employment Disqualifiers before submitting an application for employment.

Under direct supervision of a Patrol Division Sergeant, performs a wide variety of police and law enforcement activities. Tasks are service and protection oriented, and includes collecting and dispensing information, arbitrating disputes, providing assistance, protecting and recovering property, preventing crime, investigating, and providing other public protection services. Duties include an element of personal danger, i.e., exposure to life-threatening circumstances, apprehending criminals, and transporting prisoners.

Incumbents perform duties in accordance with State Statutes and established departmental policies, procedures, and guidelines. The incumbent must be able to act without close supervision and must be able to exercise independent judgment.

• Conducts routine preventive patrol in designated residential and business areas, and initiates contacts with both business operators and residents to establish open communications, gather and dispense information, and establish the presence of law enforcement within the community.
• Responds to calls for police service and takes action upon observing a circumstance or situation requiring police attention, i.e., responding to domestic disputes and disturbances, disputes among neighbors, juveniles, on-going criminal investigations.
• Interviews witnesses, victims, suspects, arrested persons, and informants to obtain pertinent information concerning accidents/crimes.
• Provides information to the public, victims, witnesses, and relatives concerning available services in the community.
• Provides assistance and service to the public, i.e., changing tires, directing traffic, unlocking vehicles, and jump-starting batteries.
• Responds to burglary and fire alarms, and robbery in progress calls, and performs initial building searches.
• Performs CPR at scenes, and performs critical emergency care, such as stopping excessive bleeding, during the interim when emergency medical personnel are en route.
• Conducts initial crime scene investigations, i.e., identifies and collects crucial evidence to be secured for processing, labels evidence with data for crime scene reconstruction, packages and stores evidence in a manner to protect chain of custody.
• Enforces State and local traffic laws to ensure safety, investigates motor vehicle accidents, and protects lives and property at all motor vehicle accident scenes.
• Identifies and issues municipal citations to violators of misdemeanor offenses.
  Enforces laws and apprehends misdemeanor and felony violators and fugitives; arrests and transports persons found to have committed a criminal act.
• Testifies in civil, traffic, and criminal court proceedings, ALR and Evidentiary hearings, and gives depositions.
• Performs considerable report and record maintenance duties, i.e., initial investigations, crime reports, felony reports, statements, arrest reports, warrant forms, inventory and search, property receipts and dispositions, misdemeanors.
• Attends in-service training as directed to maintain current knowledge of changes in laws, new methods of enforcement, and other trends and developments in law enforcement.
• Assists fire personnel at the scene as directed.
• Required to report for work punctually, work all scheduled hours, and any required overtime as deemed necessary. Must maintain a physical condition and standards necessary for the proper performance of duties, with or without accommodation.

Note:

The examples of essential functions as listed in this class specification are not necessarily descriptive of any one position in the class. The omission of an essential function does not preclude management from assigning specific duties not listed herein if such functions are a logical assignment to the position.

• Possess high school diploma or GED and be 20 years of age at the time of…