{"id":43220,"date":"2026-07-02T19:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/career-development\/job\/police-officer-15\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T08:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:27:08","slug":"police-officer-15","status":"publish","type":"ch_job","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/career-development\/job\/police-officer-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Town of Townsend Massachusetts is now accepting applications for Full-Time Police Officer.\u00a0 Full-time certified applicants are preferred.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minimum Qualifications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Must have High School Diploma or Equivalent<\/li>\n<li>Must Be 21 years of age or older<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Testing Requirements:<\/strong> Ability to pass a written, physical agility, and assessment test in addition to an extensive background check.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Salary<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Salary range for FY25 is $58,065 to $75,996 (commensurate with experience) with a very competitive benefit package.\u00a0 Education incentive pay of 5% of base pay for associates, 10% for a bachelor&#8217;s degree, 12.5% for masters\/terminal degree.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Townsend offers paid training, 12 paid holidays, accrued vacation and sick leave, bereavement leave, and a yearly clothing allowance.\u00a0 Salary and Vacation commensurate with experience.<br \/>Officers work a 4 and 2 work schedule and there is a shift differential for second and third shifts.<\/p>\n<p>Applicants are responsible for\u00a0checking their email and logging into their PoliceApp account to monitor for emails, scheduling and process updates.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please direct questions regarding this position to <a href=\"mailto:admin@townsendpd.org\"><strong><u>admin@townsendpd.org<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_ch_employer_id":"43217","_ch_external_id":"11178110","_ch_location_state":"","_ch_location_city":"","_ch_is_ocr_job":"","_ch_expiration_date":"2026-08-02","_ch_apply_link":"https:\/\/monmouth.joinhandshake.com\/jobs\/11178110\/share_preview"},"ch_stakeholder":[],"ch_class_year":[],"ch_job_category":[86],"ch_career_skill":[],"ch_industry":[59],"class_list":["post-43220","ch_job","type-ch_job","status-publish","hentry","ch_job_category-full-time","ch_industry-government-law-enforcement-public-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ch_job\/43220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ch_job"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ch_job"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ch_stakeholder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ch_stakeholder?post=43220"},{"taxonomy":"ch_class_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ch_class_year?post=43220"},{"taxonomy":"ch_job_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ch_job_category?post=43220"},{"taxonomy":"ch_career_skill","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ch_career_skill?post=43220"},{"taxonomy":"ch_industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/career-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ch_industry?post=43220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}