Careers
Police Officer:
up to $119,813/yr
Starting Salaries
Working for the Arvada Police Department offers competitive pay and opportunities for career growth across different specialized units.
Police Officer:
$89,212 – $119,813
Master Police Officer:
$125,204
Police Sergeant:
$136,986 – $148,598
Benefits
Officers at the Arvada Police Department receive comprehensive benefits such as health insurance, retirement and investment options, paid leave, and wellness programs to support their well-being.
Insurance
- Medical Insurance – Employer-provided or subsidized healthcare plans.
- Dental Insurance – Coverage for dental care and procedures.
- Vision Insurance – Coverage for eye exams, glasses, and contacts.
Retirement & Investment Plans
- 401(k) Employer Match – Company matches employee contributions at 12%.
- 457 Retirement Plan – Additional tax-advantaged retirement savings option.
Leave & Paid Time Off
- Holiday Pay – Extra pay for working designated holidays.
- Sick Leave – Used for own illness or to care for a family member, medical/dental/vision appointments
- Floating Holidays – Flexible paid time off for personal or religious holidays.
- Compensatory (Comp) Pay – Time off or pay in lieu of overtime hours worked.
College Degree Bonus – 1.5% for a 4-year degree.Â
Wellness
- The City partners with Marathon Health to provide a wellness clinic to all employees and their dependents who are enrolled.Â
- The Department offers confidential and free therapy/counseling sessions for employees and their families through Brower Psychological Services.
- Upon completion of wellness activities (annual physical, safety training, wellness presentation, etc), employees receive one additional paid day off per year.
Additional Benefits
- Life Insurance and Long-Term Disability Insurance.
- Basic life insurance of 2x employee’s annual salary.
- Tuition reimbursement up to $2000 annually.
- Fitness center and equipment for free use
- Department provided uniforms and gear (except for firearm)
Opportunity
Arvada Police Department
Here are some of the opportunities that are available working for the Arvada Police Department.
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Administrative Officer
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Patrol Officer
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SWAT
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School Resource Officer
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Detective
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Crime Scene Investigator (CSI)
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Community Response Impact Officer (CRIT)
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Field Training Officer
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Community outreach, resource, & enforcement team (CORE)
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Traffic
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K9
Civilian & Technical
By providing essential technical expertise and behind-the-scenes support, civilian employees help officers operate effectively, strengthen public safety, and keep the department running smoothly.
Animal Management Officer:
$57,943–$79,228
Concerning the care and treatment of animals, provides 24-hour emergency and non-emergency animal management services through municipal and state law enforcement and by interpreting and inspecting certain environmental aspects for the city code, while working in conjunction with other city departments for the protection and safety of animals and the community.
Essential Job Functions
- Responds to and investigates allegations of municipal code violations related to animals including those that are stray, sick, vicious, injured, or dead to determine validity of complaints and determine the appropriate course of action to mitigate the problem.
- Captures controls or confines domestic animals, livestock, and wildlife.
- Collects evidence, issues citations, conducts follow-up, prepares cases, authors search warrants, and testifies in court hearings and trials.
- Documents call for service, completes reports, and maintain related information in police records management system.
- Demonstrates a high level of ethics, integrity, and confidentiality.
- Uses specialized safety equipment to ensure personal safety such as a Conducted Electrical Weapon, catch pole and snappy snare.
- Interacts with the public via phone, electronic mail, in writing or in person to ascertain complaints and to provide or gather information related to complaints, enforcement, and other city codes.
- Transmits clearly and concisely on police radio and follows proper radio procedure.
- Exercises initiative and judgment as well as makes decisions and problem solves in a variety of situations.
- Performs informal mediation and makes referrals to formal mediation.
- Consults, interacts, and coordinates with a variety of city departments.
- Prepares monthly statistical reports for general patrol and park enforcement activity.
License & Certification
- Must possess current Colorado Animal Control Officer Certification through the Animal Welfare Association of Colorado(AWAC), or obtain within one (1) year from date of hire.
- Must successfully complete all annual and as-needed in-service training and certification requirements.
- A valid Colorado driver’s license and acceptable driving record is required.
Civilian Accident Investigator:
$70,302–$96,128
Specializes in traffic accident investigation and prevention by responding to a variety of motor vehicle-related situations along with active traffic collision scenes to investigate the cause and enforce municipal ordinances and laws related to motor vehicles.
Essential Job Functions
- Enforces all city ordinances and regulations pertaining to the parking of vehicles on public and private property. Issues appropriate warnings and citations to violators.
- Responds to a variety of traffic collisions, independently and with police officers, to conduct a thorough investigation, evidence collection and analysis, and prepare written reports, forms and diagrams documenting the entirety of the accident investigation both manually and electronically.
- Responds to traffic collisions of all kinds including hit and run, and those that involve injuries and fatalities.
- Provides traffic support at special events, accident scenes, or other events that requires traffic direction.
- Retains organizational chain of custody paperwork for electronic filing submission.
- Serves summons, subpoenas, and notices.
- Aids police officers, city staff, district attorney’s officers, other police departments and other government agencies with traffic related issues.
- Assists in preparation of material developed in investigations for presentation in court, testifies in civil and criminal court on behalf of the police department.
- Provides education to the community and others regarding traffic enforcement and accident prevention.
- Travels to and attends team and organizational meetings, training, events and activities and appropriately and professionally represents the department.
License & Certification
- Must successfully complete all annual and as-needed in-service training and certification requirements.
- A valid Colorado driver’s license and acceptable driving record is required.
Code Compliance Officer:
$57,943–$79,228
Regulates, investigates, and enforces City of Arvada municipal codes and International Property Maintenance Codes within city boundaries.
Essential Job Functions
- Responds to allegations of property maintenance code and other municipal codes violations. Completes a thorough investigation to determine if code violations exist and then takes appropriate corrective action and completes documentation.
- Performs on-site inspections of commercial and residential buildings, sites, and vacant land to determine if maintenance of the property is in compliance with property maintenance code. Takes appropriate corrective action as necessary.
- Initiates the legal and judicial process by issuing and serving summonses and providing evidence and testimony at hearings and trials and ensures that the legal requirements of notification are met. Initiates nuisance abatement hearings.
- Determines the necessity of work orders for contractors, issues work orders and coordinates with internal personnel and outside contractors. Provides detailed job parameters and ensures job completion. Calculates, assesses, and processes financial information and supporting documentation utilized for the billing, collection and assessment of administrative fees, tax liens.
- Maintains updated case files for documentary and historical purposes. Creates and maintains a variety of data spreadsheets and organizational charts to provide information to city staff, citizens, and other municipalities.
- Proactively enforces the city sign code. Identifies, removes, and disposes of illegal signage on city right-of-way.
- Interacts with the public via phone, electronic mail, and in writing.
- Consults, daily, with city staff regarding enforcement and code interpretations. Coordinates with appropriate work units to accomplish objectives.
- Oversees day-to day leadership activities, including effectively communicating vision and priorities, making decisions, problem solving, delegating work, managing performance, hiring, managing resources, developing others, and maintaining a team culture to produce strong performance and positive employee and community member experiences.
- Frequently operates a personal or City-owned motor vehicle to drive to and from work locations throughout the City.
License & Certification
- Basic Code Enforcement Officer Certification from the Colorado Association of Code Enforcement Officials (CACEO), or obtain certification within one (1) year from date of hire.
- Must successfully complete all annual and as-needed in-service training and certification requirements.
- A valid Colorado driver’s license and acceptable driving record is required.
Police Service Technician:
$57,943–$79,228
A professional staff position that handles non-emergency, criminal and non-criminal police reports, which provides various support services, and which provides general customer service in the police department’s sector station lobbies, or by telephone.
Essential Job Functions
- Documents crime reports and records in the police database.
- Conducts follow-up investigations on initiated incidents, recovered stolen vehicles and runaways.
- Interviews crime victims and other persons requesting information related to police services.
- Assists in specialized projects/assignments such as sex offender registration, records data entry, and supply ordering.
- Fingerprints citizens, employees, and liquor license applicants.
- Processes dog licenses, VIN verifications and police report requests.
- Serves as an information resource and provides customer service to citizens seeking police and other city services.
- Mediates civil disputes.
- Collects and logs-in property and evidence.
- Monitors entrance/access into Police buildings.
- Possesses a P-card with purchasing authority up to $500.00.
- Makes recommendations to supervisor for budget allocations pertaining to their department assignment.
- Frequently operates a personal or City-owned motor vehicle to drive to and from work locations throughout the City.
License & Certification
- Must successfully complete all annual and as-needed in-service training and certification requirements.
- A valid Colorado driver’s license and acceptable driving record is required.
Police Records Specialist:
$52,604–$71,928
Responsible for the entry, maintenance, preservation, and dissemination of criminal justice information in accordance with State and federal regulations.
Essential Job Functions
- Responsible for the entry and records management of data involving police-related incidents, while also being responsible for state and national crime information system confirmations and cancelations.
- Updates, maintains, archives, or purges data, files, reports, and lists, according to department policy and state and municipal retention schedules.
- Reviews petitions for expungement and petitions for the sealing of records. Ensures records are sealed or expunged upon receiving a court order.
- Completes necessary redaction in accordance with department policy and applicable local, state, or federal laws.
- Writes, transcribes, and queries various reports, lists, memos, and spreadsheets.
- Processes DUI reports, maintains statistical logs, and forwards the appropriate documents to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
- Reviews, interprets, classifies, and codes crime reports using the National Incident Based Reporting System (NIBRS) standards.
- Coordinates with both municipal and county court to maintain issued warrants within the records management system as well as the state and national system.
- Processes court documents accurately to ensure timely submission to the appropriate Office of the District Attorney.
- Responds to inquiries pertaining to policies, rules, regulations, procedures governing the release of criminal justice information.
- Releases criminal justice records in accordance with department policy and applicable local, state, or federal laws.
- Accepts payment for criminal justice records; maintains daily cash balances and prepares cash and receipts for deposit.
- Receives and processes requests for police records; fingerprints individuals for employment, state licensing, and permits; releases impounded vehicles and collects associated fees.
- Processes cash and surety bonds for municipal and county arrestees.
- Instructs personnel on various topics, including the records management system and data entry, and regularly assists internal stakeholders.
- Exercises the appropriate level of initiative and judgment to make decisions within the scope of assigned authority.
- Responds to requests promptly and provides effective services or solutions for customers.
- Handles inquiries and requests with a positive respectful attitude.
- Travels to and attends team and organizational meetings, training, events and activities and appropriately and professionally represents the department.
License & Certification
- Must successfully complete all annual and as-needed in-service training and certification requirements.
- Obtain status as a notary public.
- A valid Colorado driver’s license and acceptable driving record is preferred.
We prepare you for success in your career with the Arvada Police Department by providing:
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- Physical Fitness Programs
- Local Geography
- Colorado Revised Statutes (C.R.S.) Training
- Policy & Procedure Training
- Work/life balance schedule
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Receive a full salary and benefits from pre-academy through the fully funded Colorado POST law enforcement academy!
