Cobb County Sheriff's Office

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

Minimum requirements

• The published deputy minimums include U.S. citizenship, age 21, a high-school diploma or GED and a valid driver's license. The page also names good employment history and personal references; confirm acceptable references if you have limited employment history.
• The novice description requires the ability to graduate from the POST academy within 12 months; it does not require applicants to have already served as deputies. Ask about academy admission, sponsorship, pay during training and any repayment agreement; those terms are not established by the reviewed page.
• Applicants must pass background, polygraph, physical and psychological examinations and an oral interview board. No felony convictions is an explicit condition. Review the complete current disqualifiers and Georgia POST requirements directly; this is not an individualized eligibility decision.
• The page publishes tattoo/body-art restrictions, including certain visible locations and unprofessional or offensive content, with final agency discretion. Confirm the current appearance policy with recruitment rather than relying on an incomplete list or resolving typographical errors yourself. Prior military service is not established as a prerequisite.

Selected requirements, not a complete eligibility or disqualifier checklist.

Lateral entry

The published lateral route requires state peace-officer certification and at least two consecutive years of full-time sworn service, with current sworn employment or an absence shorter than two years. It describes service credit in a step-in-grade pay scale. These experience conditions apply to the lateral program, not the novice route. Confirm recognized certification, credited service, current incentive availability and any Georgia POST transfer requirements; no automatic out-of-state waiver is verified.

Recruiting contact

Published sheriff recruiting office; no outreach performed

Hiring outline

1. Review the current deputy requisition and apply through the official careers page. The linked application system was not reviewed or used.
2. Accepted applicants are contacted by a sheriff recruiter to schedule the physical agility test. Confirm reporting instructions, scoring, accommodations and retest rules.
3. Complete the background investigation, listed after the physical test in the published selection outline. Obtain the current personal-history and document instructions directly.
4. Complete the interview process; the qualifications identify an oral interview board. Use examples appropriate to your experience rather than assume prior sheriff service is required.
5. Complete the polygraph examination, followed in the published outline by the medical examination and psychological evaluation. Conditional-offer timing and actual appointment scheduling are not specified.
6. Confirm the final appointment and academy arrangements directly. The page does not publish a complete final-offer sequence, deadline, written-exam requirement or guaranteed overall hiring timeline.

Physical testing

The published agility course begins with 1¾ laps around the outside of a roughly half-basketball-court area. It describes hurdles, repeated stair ascents/descents, a 2½-foot clearance bar, a simulated 6-foot gap, a 4-foot fence, a 4-foot-high window, a 150-pound dummy drag for 20 feet and a final outside lap. These are the agency's described course elements, not a training prescription. No passing time, scoring table, accommodations, retest policy or current test date is verified. Confirm the current protocol before preparing or attending; do not substitute another agency's course or treat job-duty lifting requirements as test cutoffs.

Benefits

Published benefits include health/dental/vision coverage, retirement and deferred compensation, leave, tuition reimbursement, supplemental insurance and an employee wellness clinic. The job description makes clinic access conditional on county insurance coverage. Obtain current plan documents, costs and eligibility. Tuition reimbursement is not proof of funded police-academy tuition.

Hiring incentives

The page advertises limited-time new-hire and lateral incentives without a verified current deadline. It also describes shift differentials, detention-assignment pay and annual degree incentives paid quarterly with transcript verification. Eligibility, continuation, stacking and current amounts need confirmation. The summary calls one differential a morning shift while the job description calls it overnight; do not promise a particular schedule or payment from that wording.

Partial guide from the official careers page. Recruiting office is listed at 185 Roswell Street, second floor Public Safety Building, Marietta; confirm the actual testing location separately. No current job deadline, guaranteed vacancy, verified academy contract, numeric PAT passing score or current pay effective date established. Protected email addresses were not decoded. No JobPosting or salary-ranking eligibility inferred. Application systems were not used.

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