Begin Your Career As A Police Officer

Benefits

Annual Salary:

Starting $54,700.00 first year 

12 HOUR SHIFTS

ALL UNIFORMS, WEAPONS, AND BODY ARMOR SUPPLIED BY DEPARTMENT

ANNUAL PAID VACATION- 

• Year one— Fifteen days paid vacation per year until reaching ten years of service.
• Year ten— Twenty days paid vacation per year until reaching twenty years of service.
• Year twenty— Twenty-five days paid vacation per year.

IN ADDITION TO PAID VACATION RECEIVE UP TO 15 PAID HOLIDAYS PER YEAR

8 DAYS (8 hours per month) SICK LEAVE ACCRUED PER YEAR (up to 90 days accrued sick leave paid at retirement / no other law enforcement agency in the region offers such)

HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS FOR EMPLOYEE AND THEIR FAMILY*

HEALTH INSURANCE AFTER RETIREMENT AGE (another benefit no other law enforcement agency in the region offers)

LIFE INSURANCE BENEFITS (1.5 times your annual salary)

SPECIAL TUITION INCENTIVES AND DISCOUNTED TUITION AVAILABLE FROM AREA COLLEGES

FREE USE OF DEPARTMENT GYMNASIUM (24 HOURS)

NIGHT SHIFT DIFFERENTIAL PAY

TAKE-HOME VEHICLE FOR POLICE OFFICERS 

LOUISIANA POST CERTIFICATION UPON GRADUATION OF POLICE ACADEMY