Military and Veterans
The San Jose Police Department welcomes military veterans who are looking for a rewarding and exciting career in law enforcement. Because we have a paramilitary structure, military veterans often times can easily integrate into San Jose PD. With over 60 specialized assignments, veterans can utilize their military experience into their San Jose PD career.
We offer several benefits for those military veterans that qualify:
- Veteran Preference Test Points http://www.csj.gov/hr/hrps/VeteransPreference.pdf
- Up to Four (4) years, “Buy-Back” into the San Jose PD retirement system http://www.sjretirement.com/Uploads/PF/PF_Members_Handbook.pdf (pages 12-14)
- Flex Time for Military Leave: SJPD policy and City of San Jose policy http://www.csj.gov/oer/CPM/CPM422MilitaryLeave.pdf
- Eligible for GI benefits compensation while in the Police Academy
- Eligible for GI benefits compensation while on Field Training for on-the-job training
Unfortunately, military veterans who do not meet the minimum college credit requirement, cannot use military service time in lieu of, or substitute for, the minimum college credit requirement. We recommend having your military training records evaluated and converted to an equivalency of college credit through a local college. Another means is to convert it through Sailor-Marine American Council on Education Registry Transcript (SMART) and then transferred to an accredited college listed in the current edition of “Accredited Institutions of Postsecondary Education.”
Over 60 Specialized Units & Assignments
- 290 (Sex Offenders) Registration Team
- Air Support (Helicopter/Fixed Wing)
- Airport Police
- Assaults Unit
- Auto Theft Detail (vehicle crimes)
- Backgrounds Unit
- Bomb Squad
- Bureau Of Field Ops - Administration Unit
- Burglary Unit
- Canine Unit
- Child Exploits
- City Attorney Investigator Detail
- Court Liaison Unit
- Covert Response Unit
- Crime Analysis
- Crime Prevention
- Crime Scene Unit
- Crisis Management Unit
- DEA (Drug Task Force)
- Downtown Entertainment District (CMD)
- Family Violence Unit
- Field Training Program
- Financial Crimes Unit (Fraud)
- Gaming Unit
- Gang Investigations Unit
- Graffiti Abatement Unit
- Homicide Unit
- Intelligence Unit
- Internal Affairs
- Juvenile Unit
- MERGE Unit (SWAT team)
- Mayor's Security Detail
- Metro Unit (includes bicycle patrol)
- Missing Persons Unit
- Mounted Unit
- Night General Detectives
- Patrol (14 divisions)
- Permits Unit
- Police Academy
- Police Activities League (PAL)
- 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
- Secondary Employment Unit
- Sexual Assaults Unit
- Systems Development
- Tactical Negotiator
- Terrorism Early Warning Group Traffic
- Enforcement Unit
- Traffic Investigations (vehicle crimes)
- Training Unit
- Vice Squad
- Video Unit
- Warrants/Fugitives Unit