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Prior to your appointment to the Glendale Police Department, you are required to undergo and successfully pass a comprehensive background investigation. Part of this investigation includes the review of relevant documents. You must collect these documents before a background interview can be scheduled (college transcripts can be received at a later date).

 

Find the complete list of required documents here.

Once you have collected all the relevant documents, please call Sergeant Sharon Kim at (818) 548-3117 or your assigned background investigator to schedule an interview appointment. After attending an interview with your assigned background investigator, take a polygraph test and undergo reference checks

Note: Please bring all relevant documents (originals & copies) with you to your background interview.

Do not mail them.

Disqualification Standards

No set of circumstances are ever the same.
No one item is necessarily a disqualifier.

  • ​​​No felony convictions.

  • Any combination of three (3) sustained moving violations or at fault collisions over the past three years from the time of application dependent on severity.

  • Any DUI conviction or any DUI plea agreement to a lesser charge within three years from the time of application.

  • No use or possession of any non-prescription opiate (includes Heroin), Cocaine, Amphetamine (includes Methamphetamine) or Ecstasy within the last five years from the time of application.

  • No use or possession of any hallucinogen (includes LSD, PCP, Ketamine) within the last 10 years from the time of application.

  • No use or possession of non-prescription steroids within five years from the time of application.

  • No conviction of any crime that prohibits possession or use of a firearm.

Any related issues not included in this list will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Apply
Online

1

Written &
Physical
Tests

2

Panel Interview

3

Background
Check

4

Police Chief
Interview

5

Psych
Exams

6

Medical
Exam

7

Become
a Recruit

8

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