Career Paths - A Wide Range of Opportunity
Promotional Ranks
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Over 67 Specialized Units & Assignments
- Administration Collateral Assignments
- Air Support (Helicopter/Fixed Wing)
- Airport Canine Unit
- Airport Police
- Anti-Terrorism Detail
- Assaults Unit
- Auto Theft Detail (vehicle crimes)
- Backgrounds Unit
- Bomb Squad
- Burglary Unit
- Canine Unit
- City Attorney Investigator Detail
- Community Svcs Collateral Assignments
- Control Division
- Court Liaison Unit
- Crime & Evidence Control (warehouse)
- Crime Prevention
- Crime Scene Unit
- Crisis Management Unit
- DEA (Drug Task Force)
- DowntownlEntertainment District (CMD)
- Family Violence Unit
- Field Operations Collateral Assignments
- Field Training Program
- Financial Crimes Unit (Fraud)
- Gang Investigations Unit
- Graffiti Abatement Unit
- High Tech Unit
- Homicide Unit
- Information Center
- Intelligence Unit
- Internal Affairs
- Investigations Collateral Assignments
- Juvenile Unit
- MERGE Unit (SWAT team)
- Metro Unit (includes bicycle patrol)
- Mounted Unit
- Narcotics Covert Investigations Unit
- Night General Detectives
- Operations Support Division (Records Mgmt)
- Parks Patrol Unit
- Patrol
- Performance Analysis Detail
- Permits Unit
- Police Activities League (PAL)
- Police Artist
- Police Personnel
- Pre-Processing Center
- Range
- RATTF (Bay Area Auto Theft Task Force)
- Recruiting Unit
- Research & Development
- Reserve Police Unit
- Robbery Unit
- School Liaison Unit
- School Safety Unit
- Secondary Employment Unit Gaming
- Sexual Assaults Unit
- SJ Police Officers' Association Assignments
- Systems Development
- Technical Svcs Mgmt
- Traffic Enforcement Unit
- Traffic Investigations (vehicle crimes)
- Training Unit
- Truancy Abatement Detail
- Under Cover/Decoy Collateral Assignments
- VCET (Violent Crime Enforcement Team)
- Vice Squad
- Warrants/Fugitives Unit