The California Highway Patrol (CHP) will accept applications online next week from individuals interested in a career as a CHP officer. The CHP is looking to hire cadets from a pool of applicants to fill vacant officer positions throughout the state.
“The CHP is looking for men and women who represent the diverse communities that we serve to provide the highest level of safety, service, and security to the people of California,” stated CHP Commissioner Joe Farrow. “This is your opportunity to become a member of one of the greatest law enforcement agencies in the world.”
Applications will only be accepted online during a four-day period, beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, March 2 and ending at 5 p.m. Thursday, March 5, 2015.
Those interested in applying or seeking additional information should visit www.chpcareers.com.
“If you are looking for a career, not just a job, then we have a spot for you in our department,” added Commissioner Farrow. “We invite all interested members of our communities to apply during the four-day application period.”
To qualify, candidates must be 20-35 years old, a U.S. citizen with no felony convictions, and a high school graduate.
Each applicant will be required to complete the entire testing process, including a physical ability test, written test, background investigation, medical/vision evaluation, and psychological evaluation.
All components of the testing process, an applicant study guide, and a practice test can be found online at www.chpcareers.com.
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Michael A. Minjares says
– Are CHP Applicants for Antelope Valley (Palmdale/Lancaster) part of SOUTHERN DIVISION (Los Angeles)?
robert says
People with felonies would server are community better than people without… I belive in second chances and people like me turn there whole life around for the best of my family and myself..but I feel that this is like a racial profile because if I were to submit my app I’d be a automatically no… but I helped deputys in many occasions and foot pursuits but my app.. still will be a automatically a no…
Eric says
Very true. I committed a stupid felony when I was 18, served my time, complied 100% with the terms set, have never had a second contact with law enforcement since. Work, vote, responsible citizen ever since.
And automatically disqualified. Yet someone far worse will be passed through, simply because they don’t have a blemish on their record. The entire system of tying past convictions with disqualifications from jobs needs to be reviewed.
Joe says
I’m sure the two of you are good citizens now, but the point is that you two committed a felony and that’s a blemish on your record. They don’t care for misdemeanors but the reason why a felony is an automatic disqualification is federal law that a felon cannot own or posses a firearm or aumminition, which is required in the job. It’s not profiling, it’s doing their job, which is to uphold the law. I’m sorry, but that’s the law, and it isn’t going to change for the two of you. Also, Eric, chances are, you can’t vote since you at one point, were a convicted felon.
Mike says
Yes, of course felons would make the best police officers. That makes perfect sense. If, instead of committing crimes you had gone to school and learned to think logically and write coherently, then you would now be eligible to apply to the CHP.
Choosing to commit crimes has consequences. One of those consequences is that you are disqualified from jobs in law enforcement. That’s why choosing to commit crimes is a bad idea.
Dust says
“Racial profiling?” For the love… are you serious? Either that is itself a racist statement (judging or degrading a person based on race and assuming that because they are of a certain race, they must have committed a crime), or a completely uneducated assumption that a certain race or races are excluded from applying for the position (and getting accepted, no less). The CHP is an extremely diverse group of many races, due in part to the location and makeup of the people who live there. It may be one of the most diverse, in face. People like you are who stir up racial tensions, and I for one would never approve of you joining any sort of law enforcement with such an attitude. The law should protect everyone, without prejudice for race.