Pay Range: Targeted salary: $24.78 - $26.31 hourly, based on experience

Benefits Eligible: Yes

Work Schedule: Shift work. Must be able to work overnights, evenings, weekends, holidays, extended shifts (12+ hours), and mandatory overtime.

Travel: May be required 

Position Introduction

Police Officer enforces laws, ordinances, regulations, and policies. Investigates and documents crimes. Serves arrest and search warrants. Enforces laws and investigates traffic collisions. Responds to emergencies. Patrols university property and works at special events. Collects, preserves, and prepares evidence in court. Testifies in court. Serve as a Campus Security Authority (CSA) by fulfilling training and reporting obligations related to campus safety protocols. Performs noncriminal routine law enforcement functions such as traffic control, parking enforcement, and building security. May serve as an armed courier transporting cash, negotiable instruments and other items, materials and documents to and from various financial institutions and campus offices.

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Required Education and Experience

• High School diploma or GED.

Required Certifications and Licenses

• Valid Oklahoma Driver's License upon hire.
• Must be certified as a Peace Officer by the Oklahoma Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training (CLEET) within 6 months of hire.
• Obtain and maintain Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation certification through the department.

Department Preferences

• 24+ months public safety, law enforcement, military experience, or Collegiate Officers Program graduate.
• Bilingual.

Hiring Contingent Upon a Background Check: Yes

Special Indications: 

• Hiring contingent upon driver's license check.
• Hiring contingent upon Post Offer Employment Testing (POET).
• Must pass Oklahoma Law Enforcement Retirement System (OLERS) physical.
• Must be able to successfully complete OUPD initial training program.
• Must pass medical exam, as well as a physical fitness test.
• Must pass standardized written aptitude test, pass Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and California Psychological Inventory (CPI) psychometric tests.
• Hiring contingent upon successful completion of police background check, including polygraph exam, and fingerprint clearance from FBI and Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
• No felony convictions, prior protective orders, domestic violence convictions, or other crimes of a violent nature.
• Not currently subject to an order of CLEET, or other state certifying authority, revoking, suspending, or accepting a voluntary surrender of peace officer certification.
• No criminal charges pending in any state, tribal or federal court.
• Not participating in a deferred sentence for a crime of moral turpitude.
• Must be 21 years of age or older by hire date.