Position Information
Application Deadline:
Salary:
- Starting: $88,768 - $107,134, based on prior service credit and qualifications
Current MAP contract expires: 5/31/2025
Additional overtime opportunities available.
- Paid OT for monthly firearms training, ammo included
- Rolling comp time bank, 100 hour cap
- Accelerated FTO program (DOQ)
- 12 hour shifts
- 88 hours of holiday time (issued every January 1)
- Cash out options for Comp/Holiday time
- MAP Union
- Annual uniform/clothing allowance
- Ballistic vest provided every 5 years
- Numerous opportunities for OT/Comp
- Downstate pension transfer from tier 1 or 2
- Numerous training opportunities for officers
Task force and other assignment opportunities:
- Crash Reconstruction
- Kane County Major Crimes
- Kane County SWAT (Operator, Investigator, Negotiator)
- ILEAS Mobile Field Force
- Crime Scene Technician
- Honor Guard
- Crisis Intervention Team
- ATV Team
- Drone Pilot
- Juvenile Officer
- Comfort Dog Handler
- School Resource Officer
- Truck/Traffic Enforcement
- Investigations
- Bike Patrol
- Various Instructor Assignments
Sworn:
Population:
Position Details
The North Aurora Police Department, an Equal Opportunity Employer, is seeking Illinois certified, experienced lateral transfer officers and applications are now available.
This opportunity is for applicants who are already Illinois certified police officers.
The North Aurora Police Department has an authorized strength of 32 sworn officers, and are establishing a lateral eligibility list for our current and future openings.
The North Aurora Police Department provides policing services to over 18,000 residents within our 10 square mile community. The department is proactive, working aggressively and consistently to identify and resolve problems and other issues to improve the quality of life within our community. We are a community policing department, hold many public events which are intended to build relationships with the community, and we have great support from our residents.
Internally, we are a very family-friendly workplace. Our staffing includes a chief of police, 2 deputy chiefs, 5 sergeants, 21 patrol officers, 1 crime prevention officer, 2 investigators, and 3 full-time records specialists. Most officers have secondary assignments so you can develop additional skills. Our patrol officers are not "just a patrol officer;" they are also firearms, taser, & defensive tactics instructors. They are evidence techs, field training officers, SWAT team members, crisis intervention team members, and more!
See the linked flyer below for more secondary assignments that are available.
View the full informational flyer here:
https://northaurora.org/departments/police-department/police-department-employment/
Qualifications:
- Be a municipal police officer, county sheriff's deputy, or Illinois state trooper in good standing for at least two years.
- Be currently certified by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board
- Possess substantially equivalent skills and abilities as a current North Aurora Police Officer.
- Possess a valid driver's license.
- Reside within a 25-mile radius of the village limits by the end of 18-month probationary period.
Prior to getting hired, candidates must be able to pass:
- Extensive background investigation
- Polygraph exam
- Psychological exam
- Medical exam
- Drug screening
Selected candidates may be contacted for an interview and tour of the station (spouses/significant others are welcome to join on the tour).
Applications are available at:
North Aurora Police Department
200 S. Lincolnway
North Aurora, IL
OR
Online at:
https://northaurora.org/departments/police-department/police-department-employment/
Applications may be emailed to:
napdrecruiting@northaurora.org
OR
Dropped off:
North Aurora Police Department
200 S. Lincolnway
North Aurora, IL
OR
Mailed to:
200 S. Lincolnway
North Aurora, IL 60542
An Equal Opportunity Employer