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**CLASSIFICATION DESCRIPTION**:
Elgin operates under the council-manager form of government, which was adopted in Elgin in 1954. The City has approximately 650 Full Time Employees and a $275 million budget. The City of Elgin's Strategic Principles and Priorities serve as a guide for the City and community. The City Council has established the following values and goals to help it realize Elgin's full potential as "The City in the Suburbs": Collaboration, Innovation, Diversity and Inclusion, Stewardship, to be the City of Choice, to be a Safe and Healthy Community, to be a High Performing and Financially Stable Government.

The Elgin Police Department currently has 194 uniformed police officers.

What is it like to be an Elgin Police Officer?

**GENERAL DEFINITION AND CONDITIONS OF WORK**:

- Essential functions - Preserving the public peace; protecting life and property; preventing crimes; detecting and arresting violators of the law; enforcing all criminal and traffic laws of the State of Illinois and the ordinances of the City of Elgin.
- Typical tasks - conducting traffic accident investigations; patrolling an assigned area of the City; investigating suspicious incidents; conducting preliminary investigations; preserving evidence and interviewing witnesses.

**STEP 1**
- Ensure that you meet the minimum requirements of the position

**STEP 2**
- 1. Schedule the written test to be taken at the City of Elgin Police Department.
- There is **no cost for taking the test at the City of Elgin Police Department.**

**OR**

**2. Schedule the written test with National Testing Network - scheduling information listed below.**

**STEP 3**
- Notification will be sent to you by June 14, 2024 to inform you whether or not you will be advancing to the next stage of the process.**KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES**:
**Requirements for the position**
- Copy of birth certificate / Naturalization papers if born outside of US- Copy of a valid driver's license
- Copy of a high school diploma or GED required

Awarding of preference points is done after the final stage of the process for original appointment for the following reasons; provided, however, that a maximum number of fourteen (14) points for persons receiving veteran's preference points and a maximum of twelve (12) points for persons not claim veteran's preference may be awarded to any person during the appointment process.
The following qualifications shall be considered as preferred for original appointments as a police officer to the police department and shall be awarded the following preference points:

- Persons who are certified police officers in good standing and who are currently employed as full time sworn officers of a regular police department in any municipal, county, university or state law enforcement agency with at least three (3) years of full-time police experience**:three (3) points.**:

- Persons who have any one of the following educational qualifications: a bachelor's degree, associate's degree, 60 college credit hours or a trade school diploma from accredited college, university or trade school**:three (3) points.**:

- Persons who are currently employed full time with the City of Elgin with at least three (3) years full time employment with the City**:three (3) points.**:

- Persons who are certified by the City or by a third party selected by the City to be multilingual, i.e., that in addition to English such person is proficient in Spanish, sign language or such additional language(s) as determined and established by the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners in its rules and
regulations**:three (3) points.**- Persons who have been awarded a certificate attesting successful completion of training on not less than forty (40) hours in non-violence,
- mediation or de-escalation tactics from an accredited college, university, governmental unit or other certified and recognized training program**:three**
**(3) points.**
- Persons who are currently residing and have resided in the City of Elgin for at least one (1) year (i.e., maintaining their bona fide and principal residence
in the City of Elgin)**:three (3) points.**:

- Persons who have engaged in the active military and naval service of the United States for a period of at least one (1) year and who are honorably
discharged therefrom**:five (5) points.**:

- Persons who have participated in the Elgin Police Department Explorer Program with at least three (3) years of experience with not less than 300
hours of volunteer time in such program**: three (3) points.**
- Persons with documented professional employment or voluntary community service with a recognized social service agency or community
organization with at least three (3) years of professional employment or voluntary service participation in such program and with not less than 300
hours of volunteer time in such program**:three (3) points.**

**Written Examination**

**OPTION 1**:

- Dates for the written test:

- Thursday, June 6, 202