THE FREDERICK POLICE DEPARTMENT IS CURRENTLY ACCEPTING
APPLICATION FOR THE POSITION OF POLICE OFFICER

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The Frederick Police Department is a technologically innovative, progressive, community- oriented agency, committed to ensuring Frederick City's exceptional quality of life. We partner with our citizens, striving to ensure satisfaction. We steadfastly believe that our commitment to provide enlightened and sophisticated police service makes Frederick a unique and wonderful place in which citizens thrive. Our citizens and visitors enjoy the close-knit feeling of community, and our officers are an integral part of the lives and activities of Frederick.

Frederick Police Officers have the highest respect for all citizens, treat all citizens as equal customers, and never tolerate taking another person's dignity. We exist to serve the public -- and police power derives from the people. We expect excellence and respect in all we do. Policing is the epitome of public service.

The FPD consistently proves itself an enlightened and sophisticated department that aggressively combats crime through a variety of police tactics, by working with citizens and identifying problems and concerns, prioritizing those issues, and planning together how we and the rest of the government and citizens alike will address these concerns through additional efforts of prevention, building healthy neighborhoods, and focused law enforcement.

The Frederick Police Department offers a wealth of career opportunities in patrol, investigations, crime analysis, community relations, criminal records, communications, canine operations, drug enforcement, and special emergency response teams. The Department operates a superior Police Training Academy certified by the Maryland State Training Commission, has state-of-the-art technology including a fully digitized communications system, and our fleet of patrol cars that contain mobile digital computers as well as cameras.

We hire the best and brightest: people who have a strong desire to serve Fredericktonians with the highest regard for and pride in the badge of the Frederick Police Department. Members of this agency believe in the tenets of community policing and problem solving. We make community policing the manner in which we conduct our business throughout the agency by creating ownership and accountability at all levels. We recognize that police work is really police service -- not simply law enforcement. We constantly strive for improvement in all areas by evaluating best practices with the goal of always raising the bar of excellence.

If you want to make a difference, if you want to be part of something great, if you believe that public service can bring out the best in you, then you belong with the Frederick Police Department!

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