We’re now expanding our search for qualified candidates to fill our future vacancies! We have joined the National Testing Network! The NTN provides a seamless option for job seekers and for employers to connect. Interested candidates should go to the National Testing Network website at https://www.nationaltestingnetwork.com/ and sign up to take their exam at a trusted exam site.  Upon receipt of your test score, you can then have your score sent to our agency. Additional information would then be supplied to you for our specific process. This process helps us maintain an ongoing eligibility list.
 
The Bellefontaine Police Department now is hiring using three methods:

1. Civil Service testing
2. National Testing Network
3. Lateral Transfers

​We’re searching for the best!  If you want to join a team that’s committed to excellence and committed to community policing, look no further!  We offer competitive wage and benefits, paid vacations, education incentives, and quality training opportunities.  Your service years will be taken into consideration at time of hire that could help increase your starting wage at the appropriate Step on our wage scale.

APPLICATIONS BEING ACCEPTED UNTIL POSITIONS ARE FILLED!
 
Applications may be picked up at our department, located at 135 North Detroit Street, Bellefontaine, Ohio, 43311.  Additionally, you can email our office at [email protected] and we can scan you the application to complete. The application information is also available below.  If you have questions, please contact Lt. Scott Marlow ([email protected]) or by calling (937) 599-1010.  Applications will be reviewed often.  Applications are valid for up to one year of receipt. 

APPLY NOW TO JOIN OUR TEAM!
 
We’re searching for the best!  If you want to join a team that’s committed to excellence and committed to community policing, look no further!  We offer competitive wage and benefits, paid vacations, education incentives, and quality training opportunities.  Your service years will be taken into consideration at time of hire.

Applications may be picked up in the Mayor’s Office at the City Building, located at 135 North Detroit Street (2nd Floor), Bellefontaine, Ohio, 43311.  Additionally, you can email our office at [email protected] and we can scan you the application to complete.  If you have questions, please contact Officer Mike Morgan at [email protected], or by calling (937) 599-1010.  Deadline to return your application is July 1, 2021 to the Mayor’s Office.

​The Bellefontaine Police Department, in conjunction with the Bellefontaine Civil Service Commission is proud to announce that effective in 2020, the Bellefontaine Police Department will begin accepting lateral transfers.  This change will now allow current law enforcement officers that already work in policing to apply to work at our agency.  This eliminates the need for current law enforcement officers to take a written examination and a physical agility exam to enter the hiring process.  Instead, when a date is announced, the City will accept applications for lateral transfers.  Then, after the application phase ends, further steps in the hiring process will then start.  Those steps will still include an oral board interview, polygraph exam, psychological exam, background investigation, and medical review.  Following those steps, a list will be compiled of qualified candidates.  This list will be considered an additional pool of candidates that the City may hire from aside from any list certified by the Civil Service Commission of applicants who have not yet been hired by another agency.  The City then may choose to hire from either list, allowing for a broader view of potential candidates.  

To request a notification of the next officer entry level testing, please fill out the request on the Police Employment page.