Benefits

PAY SCALE

• DURING GEORGIA POST ACADEMY:
  • $47,209 for trainees
  • SPD pays for ALL required training and ALL uniforms / equipment
• PAY INCREASE AFTER COMPLETION OF GEORGIA POST ACADEMY (approx. 11-14 Weeks)
  •  $60,359 for newly certified officers

LATERAL ENTRY

SPD offers Lateral Entry options for police officers and for military police officers.

Qualified candidates must be Georgia POST Certified or qualify for the Georgia POST Equivalency of Training (EQT) process.
The EOT process may allow an officer who does not possess a GA POST law enforcement certification to be exempt from having to complete the entire basic law enforcement training course.
Types of officers who may be eligible for the EOT process:

■ Eligible Federal Peace Officers;
■ Military Peace Officers (MP+ CID, or equivalent);
■ Out-of-State Peace Officers;
■ Pre-Service Candidates and Inactive Registered Georgia Peace Officers actively employed in law enforcement or who have graduated from a basic law enforcement training course;
■ Individuals who attended the basic law enforcement training course, in Georgia, and did not complete the certification process.

*Probation and Corrections experience does not qualify for the process. All others will be required to attend the entire basic law enforcement training course.
You may be eligible for an exemption from the full basic law enforcement training course if you also meet the following requirements:

■ You attended a basic law enforcement training course in another state or with the
federal government;
■ Your certification as a peace officer in another state or with the federal government is valid.