Lateral Police Officer in Taylor

The Taylor Police Department is hiring a Lateral Police Officer to join their department. Dedicated to upholding a professional and ethical standard while providing a safe and secure environment for all persons living in, working in or visiting the City of Taylor, it’s the department’s continuous goal to deter behavior and conditions that lead to crime and the fear of crime, while building a close partnership with the community we serve.

Taylor Lateral Police Officer Salary

• 5-year noncorporal lateral opportunity at $85,000 for full-time law enforcement experience in another community
• 2025 Top Base Salary: $91,000 ($43.75/hour)
• 2026 Top Base Salary: $93,730 ($45.06/hour)
• 2027 Top Base Salary: $95,604 ($45.96/hour)

Benefits

• 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:
  • Associate’s: $250
  • Bachelor’s: $500
  • Master’s: $1,000
• Life Insurance Benefit: $50,000
• Weekly Short-Term Disability Benefit: $100
• Paid Shift Differential/Midnight premium: $0.65/hr.
• Selective Traffic Enforcement Detail
• 12 Hour Shifts/every other weekend off
• 3% base wage increase in January 2026
• 2% base wage increase in January 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: Taylor Lateral 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 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 require the ability to distinguish color and perceive shapes.
• Conduct visual and audio monitoring of the 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 firearms 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 day and night while exercising due care and caution in congested traffic, 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 that 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 to ensure appropriate employee behavior/response and performing activities involving the public.
• Subdue resisting subjects using hands and feet while employing defensive tactics and 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.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizen
• Age at least 21 years
• High School graduate or equivalent (G.E.D.)
• Minimum of 60 college credit hours completed unless the candidate is currently a certified police officer or active military or military with honorable discharge
• Completion of Police Academy
• A valid driver’s license
• Good moral character – traffic and criminal records will be examined
• No Felony Convictions
• Be certified or certifiable as a police officer in the State of Michigan (i.e., a graduate of Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (MCOLES) certified academy) or certifiable within the first year of the eligibility list.
• Must have a current passing test score (at least 70%) on record with Empco.
• Physically and mentally able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to perform all the established duties and responsibilities related to the position
• Ability to pass a fingerprint, background check, psychological exam, and any other investigation deemed necessary by the Police and Fire Civil Service Commission
• Ability to successfully complete the basic training curriculum as determined by the Taylor police department

How to Apply

More Information

For all inquiries and questions, contact Commander Eric Jones by phone at 734-374-1390 or by email at [email protected].

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