Police Officer-Lateral

Police Officer-Lateral (New Contract)

Taylor Police Department - MI

Salary Range $72,100.00 - $95,604.00 Salary

Salary & Benefits:

• Starting salary $72,100.00
• 5 year non corporal lateral opportunity at $87,500 for full-time law enforcement experience in another community
• 2026 Top Base Salary $93,730 ($45.06/HR)
• 2027 Top Base Salary $95,604 ($45.96/HR)
• Defined Benefit Pension: 2.25% multiplier at base wages plus 240 bank time hours
• Optional participation in a 457 plan
• MERS Retirement Health Savings Plan: 2% City match
• Paid holidays, vacation days, sick time, sick leave bonus, cleaning bonus and compensated bank time
• Medical, Prescription plan, dental, and vision benefits
• Residency Bonus $500/yr
• Annual Education Bonus: $250 Associates, $500 Bachelors, $1000 Masters
• $50,000 Life Insurance Benefit
• $100 weekly Short Term Disability Benefit
• Paid Shift Differential/Midnight premium $0.65/hr.
• Selective Traffic Enforcement Detail
• 12 Hour Shifts/every other weekend off
• 2% base wage increase-January of 2027

Department Opportunities:

• Field Training Officer Bonus Pay
• K9 Officer Bonus Pay
• Investigations Bureau
• Traffic Enforcement Bureau
• Accident Investigator
• Drone Pilot Unit
• Firearms/Taser Instructor
• Downriver SWAT
• Crisis Negotiations Team
• Special Operations
• Task Force Officer (DEA, HIS, MNET)

Essential Job Functions Police Officer:

• Affect an arrest, forcibly if necessary, using handcuffs and other restraints.
• Climb over obstacles; climb through openings; jump down from elevated surfaces; jump over obstacles, ditches and streams; and crawl in confined areas to pursue, search, investigate and/or rescue.
• Communicate effectively over law enforcement radio channels while initiating and responding to radio communications, often under adverse conditions.
• Communicate verbally and effectively by listening to people and by giving information, directions and commands.
• Conduct searches of buildings and large outdoor areas which may involve walking and/or standing for long periods of time and which requires the ability to distinguish color and perceive shapes.
• Conduct visual and audio monitoring of jail for extended periods of time.
• Enter and exit vehicles quickly to perform rescue operations, pursue a suspect or answer an emergency call.
• Exercise independent judgment within legal guidelines, to determine when there is reasonable suspicion to detain, when probable cause exists to search and arrest and when force may be used and to what degree.
• Gather information in criminal investigations by interviewing and obtaining the statements of victims, witnesses, suspects and confidential informants.
• Load, unload, aim and fire handguns, shotguns and other agency fire arms from a variety of body positions in situations that justify the use of deadly force while maintaining emotional control under extreme stress.
• Manage interpersonal conflicts to maintain order.
• Operate an emergency vehicle during both the day and night; while exercising due care and caution in congested traffic and in unsafe road conditions and environmental conditions such as fog, smoke, rain, ice and snow.
• Perform law enforcement functions while working rotating shifts and unanticipated overtime.
• Perform tasks which require lifting, carrying, or dragging people or heavy objects while performing limited law enforcement functions.
• Perform searches of persons which involve touching and feeling to detect potential weapons and contraband.
• Pursue fleeing suspects on foot both day and night in unfamiliar terrain.
• Prepare investigative and other reports, including sketches, using appropriate grammar, symbols and mathematical computations.
• Read and comprehend rules, regulations, policies, procedures and the law for purposes of ensuring appropriate employee behavior/response and performing activities involving the public.
• Subdue resisting subjects using hands and feet while employing defensive tactics maneuvers of approved nonlethal weapons.
• Use body force to gain entrance through barriers to search, seize, investigate and/or rescue.
• Perform other essential tasks as identified by the MCOLES Job-task analysis.

Preliminary Requirements:

• U.S. Citizen
• Age at least 21 years
• High School graduate…