Police Main Page
Crime Prevention
Investigations
Patrol
Canine Unit - Dino
Youth Programs
Kid's Corner
Special Operations
FAQs
Contact Information
Back to Home Page
About Skokie
Residents
Business
Visitors
Search
|
Headquarters- 8350 Laramie Avenue
(Corner of Laramie and Main)
Click here to view Police Department 2006 Annual Report
Click here to view the 75th Aniversary Book
Police Testing Process
Non-Emergency Number (847) 982-5900
The Skokie Police Department offers a wide variety of programs designed to assist and educate members of our residential and business communities. Information pertaining to the many facets of personal safety and property protection is made available in printed form or presented to the organizations making the request by our Crime Prevention/Community Relations Unit Officers. Citizens involvement has proven to be the best way to reduce crime.
The Skokie Village Code identifies the responsibility of the Skokie Police Department as the protection of life and property, the protection of rights of persons, the enforcement of ordinances and regulations, and the preservation of peace, order, and safety.
With the Village Code as a mandate for service, the Departmental responsibilities which comprise the Mission Statement of the Skokie Police Department are identified as:
- To prevent and repress crime.To detect criminal activity and to apprehend offenders.To protect life and property.To facilitate the safe movement of people and vehicles.To assist those in danger, those who cannot care for themselves and those in need of assistance.To protect individual constitutional rights.To resolve conflict threatening to life and property.
- To create and maintain a feeling of security in the community.
CALEA
Accreditation Assessment Team Invites Public Comment
(Public Notice)
 Accreditation is a process through which law enforcement agencies voluntarily seek to demonstrate their continued ability to meet or exceed 436 nationally recognized standards. These standards, which have been established by the Commission on accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA) www.CALEA.org, are designed to:
- increase an agency's ability to prevent and control crime
- increase agency effectiveness and efficiency
- increase departmental communication with other elements of the criminal justice system
- increase the confidence of both citizens and agency employees in the goals, practices and procedures of the agency.
The Skokie Police Department, which was first accredited in 1988, was the eighth agency in Illinois and among the first 100 departments in the country to become accredited. The Skokie Police Department was re-accredited in 1998, 2001 and again in 2004.
Police Testing Process
Advertising for the entry level testing process, the mandatory orientation, application form, written examination and physical agility test, are some elements of the selection process.
Applicants are processed in subsequent steps as follows:
-
Written exam.
- Physical agility test.
An eligibility list of applicants is established in numeric order based on written examination scores and any verified claim of military points. A score of 70% or better on each of the components of the written exam is required for passing.
Further participation in the selection process will take place as vacancies occur. Applicants will be invited, in rank order, to participate in and successfully advance through the following steps:
-
Psychological evaluation.
-
Polygraph examination.
-
Background investigation including personal, credit, business, education, and employment history.
-
Oral interview with the Board of Fire and Police Commissioners.
-
Conditional offer of employment based on a successful medical examination. (Medical examination includes drug screening).
-
Appointment and swearing-in ceremony before the Skokie Board of Trustees.
Following their appointment, a new police officer is required to satisfy certain other requirements. Those requirements include:
-
Successful completion and certification as a police officer at a State of Illinois approved Basic Academy.
-
Successful completion of the Department's in-house training program.
-
Successful completion of the probationary period of two years from date of hire.
-
Enter into an "Abstinence from Tobacco Products Agreement".
|
