Starting annual salary $68,000
The City of Des Moines Police Department is the largest and only self-sustained police department in the state of Iowa, consisting of 372 sworn officers. The department offers a wide variety of job assignments throughout the Operations, Administrative Services and Investigations Divisions including but not limited to:
- Patrol
- Community Outreach
- K-9
- Special Tactics and Response
- School Resource Officer
- Robbery and Homicide Investigation
- Financial Crimes Investigation
- Bomb Squad
- Dive Team
- Narcotic Investigations
- Academy