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1. How can I find out if the Idaho Falls Police are accepting employment applications?

You can submit a job interest form at the Idaho Falls Personnel office. The Personnel office will notify you by mail in late April or May when applications are to be submitted and when the test date is scheduled. Police Officer applicants will be subject to a civil service written exam.

After successfully completing the written exam, 25 - 30 applicants will be scheduled for the Physical Fitness Test battery (P.F.T.B). For those that qualify, an oral interview with the Civil Service Commission will be scheduled. A Civil Service list will be established based upon your scores from the written test, P.F.T.B, and oral interview. The applicant must also pass a background check, a polygraph exam, a physiological test, and the medial exam.

2. I am a Police Officer from another agency. Does the Idaho Falls Police Department accept lateral transfers?

At this time, civil service rules do not have a lateral transfer policy. Experience from other departments may however be applied to certain inter department transfers and a higher pay grade at the Chief’s discretion.