Ceres Police Department

Partial profile reviewed 2026-10-24. Not proof of an opening.

Minimum requirements

• Flyer requires a passing PELLET B score but supplies no numerical cutoff, score validity or retest rule. It encourages current academy attendees; do not convert that invitation into a mandatory prior academy or paid-service prerequisite.
• Satisfactory background investigation, physical examination, drug screen, polygraph, fingerprints and administrative review are listed. Full eligibility, age, education, licensing and disqualifier rules are not supplied by the flyer and must be checked in the actual announcement.
• Applicant must be available for the published testing/interview dates and March–September 2027 academy period. Confirm schedule changes, attendance obligations and any employment or tuition agreement with the city.

Selected requirements, not a complete eligibility or disqualifier checklist.

Lateral entry

This flyer concerns a part-time recruit campaign, not a lateral transfer offer. No lateral pay placement, testing waiver or out-of-state certification route verified.

Recruiting contact

Public police office, not dedicated recruitment verified

Hiring outline

1. Review the actual application and special instructions. Flyer says resumes are not accepted in place of an application. City gateway generally uses CalOpps, but the provider/application itself was not reviewed or submitted.
2. Flyer opened October 16 and closes October 29, 2026. No closing time or timezone supplied; confirm the precise submission cutoff rather than assuming midnight.
3. Scheduled PELLET B and physical agility testing: November 10, 2026. Oral panel: December 3, 2026. Chief interviews: December 7, 2026. These are campaign dates, not an evergreen promise or confidential interview content.
4. Background, medical examination, drug screening, polygraph, fingerprints and administrative review are listed without a complete chronology. Do not infer their exact order or substitute city-wide optional examination language for this role's process.
5. Academy is scheduled March–September 2027. Duties include classroom participation, assignments, firearms qualification training and professional working relationships; they describe learning during the role, not proof of prior sworn experience. Tuition, equipment, repayment and permanent appointment terms remain unverified.

Physical testing

A physical agility test is scheduled for November 10, 2026, but events, distances, times, repetitions, sequence, scoring and retest rules are absent. Medical examination is distinct from the PAT. Confirm the current employer protocol; do not infer standards from firearm training duties or another agency's test.

Benefits

Flyer explicitly calls this a temporary, non-benefited position. Do not attach the city gateway's general health, retirement, leave or other benefits to this part-time recruit role. Confirm any statutory or role-specific terms directly.

Hiring incentives

No signing bonus, tuition amount, equipment payment, repayment waiver or guaranteed permanent appointment verified. Hourly pay does not itself establish those terms.

Partial campaign-specific guide. Dates and hourly pay come from the city-hosted flyer, read as text and visually. Confirm current status after the October 29, 2026 closing date. No invented closing time, datePosted timestamp, full-time employment type, annual recruit salary or JobPosting schema. Provider special instructions and full minimums remain unreviewed; no individual legal/medical eligibility determination.

No test preset is imported from this profile. Bring current employer instructions to your preparation.