Position Details
VILLAGE OF WESTERN SPRINGS POLICE DEPARTMENT ACCEPTING
LATERAL POLICE OFFICER
Application Deadline:
Friday, February 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
How to Apply:
- Complete the application by the application deadline
- Submit all supporting documentation by the application deadline
- Signed application
- Photocopy of your State of Illinois certification by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
- Resume
- Photocopy of your valid driver’s license
- Photocopy of your valid FOID card
- High School Diploma or GED and college transcripts
- Training certificates
- Reimbursement Agreement, signed and notarized
- References: professional, coworkers, and family (3 of each)
- When applicable, a certified copy of the applicant’s military service record and discharge papers (DD214)
Please read the application packet before applying.
State of Illinois Law Enforcement Certification is required.
All information contained in or connected with the application will be considered personal and confidential to the extent possible or permitted by law and used only in conjunction with your possible employment with the Western Springs Police Department. Please furnish complete information as outlined in the application.
Read every question carefully and answer accurately. An applicant will be disqualified from further processing if they make a false statement of a material fact, practices any deception or fraud in the application or examination of appointment. Any false statements on this application will be considered sufficient cause for dismissal. Any misrepresentation on this application, whether actual or by omission, may disqualify you for consideration of employment by the Western Springs Police Department.
Please contact Ashlee Jasutis, Deputy Police Chief with questions regarding the application, required documents, or testing at:
708-246-1800 ext.155
OR
ajasutis@wsprings.com
Minimum Requirements and Qualifications:
Candidates must meet the following minimum qualifications and requirements at the time of application and hire:
- State of Illinois certification by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board (ILETSB).
- Part-time certification as a law enforcement officer; corrections officer certification; and/or military law enforcement training DO NOT meet this requirement.
- U.S. citizenship or authorized to work in the United States under federal law or qualified under federal Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) for deferred immigration action.
- Individuals must be at least 21 years old.
- Education - High school education or GED.
- Experience – at least 2 years continuous experience as a current full-time sworn officer in good standing.
- Valid driver’s license.
- Valid FOID card.
- No felony convictions.
- Must be physically able to perform the essential duties of the position.
- Must have at least 20/100 binocular vision without glasses, correctable to 20/20 with glasses, and shall not be color blind.
- Must be of good moral character.
- Must agree to comply with all requirements of the position, including providing copies of any requested employment-related materials or other documents to confirm or verify information, and have the ability to pass all examination and training requirements. The Village of Western Springs reserves the right to re-verify candidate qualifications at any time during the screening and hiring process.
- The Board of Fire and Police Commissioners requires all employees to enter into an expense reimbursement agreement upon hire.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Preserve and protect life, property, and the rights of all -individuals to live and do business in peace.
- Enforce the laws in a fair and impartial manner.
- Prevent crime and maintain the safety and order as well as operate in a proactive manner to prevent criminal activity.
- Initiate and conduct investigations of criminal activity.
- Respond to emergency and non-emergency calls for police assistance.
- Conduct thorough follow-up investigations and make every effort to clear criminal cases.
- Complete necessary reports associated with job function.
- Patrol an assigned area for the prevention of crime and enforcement of laws and ordinances, conduct premise checks.
- Investigate suspicious conditions, activities, or persons.
- Arrest or cite violators of laws and ordinances, search arrestees for weapons or articles.
- Enforce traffic and parking rules and regulations.
- Staff special events as assigned.
- Actively participate in community policing and crime prevention efforts, to include presenting crime prevention programs.
- Establish personal contacts with community members.
- Handles other duties as assigned.
Elements and Duration of the Selection Process:
An offer of employment is contingent on passing all required screenings and examinations.
- There is no guarantee of an interview or further consideration for candidates submitting an application. Inclusion in any lateral entry candidate screening process shall be based upon the relative excellence of the candidate's reflecting qualifications above the stated minimum qualifications and the hiring needs of the Department at the time of review.
- Selected candidates will be invited to participate in an oral interview conducted by the Village of Western Springs Board of Fire and Police Commissioners (BFPC). Upon recommendation by the interview committee, and within approximately one month of the interview, qualified candidates will be placed on an eligibility list that will have a two-year expiration date after being posted. The list may expire sooner than two years if the BFPC makes a decision to revoke thelist.
- Candidates may receive a conditional offer of employment and participate in additional post-offer screenings and examinations, including but not limited to polygraph examination, psychological evaluation, character and background investigation and credit check, medical examination, and drug screening. Candidates must receive a satisfactory evaluation on each screening or examination in order to proceed in the selection process. Failure to achieve a satisfactory evaluation on any screening or examination shall result in immediate disqualification from further consideration. The duration of these selection elements is approximately three months.
- Candidates who do not pass any portion of the selection process may re-apply at any following announcement, as there is no waiting period to re-apply.
- New lateral police officers are subject to an 18-month probationary period.
The Village of Western Springs Police Department accepts for employment and promotes its employees without regard to perceived or actual race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military status, order of protection status, physical or mental handicap unrelated to ability to perform the essential job functions, or any other status or class protected by federal, state, or local law. The Village of Western Springs is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE).
The Village of Western Springs Police Department establishes its hiring practices and promotions on merit, experience, education, and other qualifications applied to all applicants and in accordance with the principles of equal employment opportunity and as required by any other applicable federal, state, or local law. The Village of Western Springs Police Department complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
