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Background Check

Your career awaits you at the Glendale Police Department 

Glendale Police Officers are role models for the community. A background check helps determine if applicants meet the high standards required for the job. Applicants must:

  1. Collect Required Documents

  2. Attend background interview with an investigator

  3. Take a polygraph test

  4. Undergo reference checks

Polygraph

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 call Sergeant Robert Rosas at:

(818) 548-3117 or your assigned background investigator to schedule an interview appointment.

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

Do not mail them.

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.

Disqualification Standards

Scales of Justice

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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