Entry Level Applicants:
Hiring Consortium Departments | Huntington Woods

Thank you, for your interest in the City of Huntington Woods, Department of Public Safety. Huntington Woods is in southern Oakland County; bordered by Royal Oak, Oak Park and Berkley. The Huntington Woods Public Safety Department is a consolidated Police and Fire Department. All Officers are cross-trained and perform both functions. The Department's actual strength is presently at seventeen (17) sworn positions. Since strength varies from time to time as a result of normal attrition factors, every effort, including advance hiring, is made to maintain actual strength at the authorized/budgeted strength level of 17. Currently, the Huntington Woods Public Safety Department is the only law enforcement agency in Oakland County that is nationally accredited through the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA).

Preferences will be given to applicants who have graduated or are currently attending, a MCOLES/MLEOTC Police Academy. Applicants must be at least 21 years of age, a citizen of the United States, be a high school graduate or its equivalent and have successfully completed 60 hours of college credit.

Applicants' driving records are evaluated. The Omnibus Appropriations Bill, signed on 9/30/96, Section 658, bans individuals convicted of most criminal acts involving domestic violence from owning or possessing a firearm. Law Enforcement Officers are specifically not exempted from this prohibition. This prohibition includes individual convicted of misdemeanor crimes, involving domestic violence.

Applicants must have taken and passed the Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (MCOLES/formerly, MLEOTC Pre-Employment tests).

There are two MCOLES tests; a written test, and a physical agility test. The applicant is responsible for making the reservation for the MCOLES tests, and paying the fees for the MCOLES tests. Applicants must submit the official results of the MCOLES testing; and if applicable, current MCOLES certification (an Officer in the State of Michigan previously certified by MLEOTC/MCOLES).

Applicants must be able to successfully complete the required police training curriculum at a Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards/ Michigan Law Enforcement Training Council Police Academy; and be deemed certifiable upon graduation.

Applicants must have the ability to successfully complete the basic fire training curriculum at a Firefighter Training Council approved school, and successfully attain Firefighters Level II certification. Applicants must be eligible for certification as provided, Public Act 203 as amended.

The Huntington Woods Department of Public Safety strives to maintain an ethnic and gender makeup in proportion to the makeup of the available workforce surrounding our community. As stated in the department's General Order on recruitment, "The Huntington Woods Public Safety Department is an equal opportunity employer by both policy and practice and subscribes to federal and state and local laws which forbid discrimination because of race, color, religion, age, sex or sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, veteran status, or physical disability or impairment which would not interfere with normal job performance."

City website: www.huntingtonwoods.govoffice.com.