{"id":721,"date":"2019-08-21T07:39:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/?page_id=721"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T21:58:04","slug":"deputy-requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/deputy-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy Sheriff Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-lu1m42b5-2d45df143b079dc3d603322ca88b85e0 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"rxbodyfield\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/deputy-requirements\/\">Deputy Sheriff Requirements \u2013 Sheriff Department (dallascounty.org)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Testing Eligibility Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Two years as a Detention Service Officer or<\/li>\n<li>30 college hours from an accredited college with at least a 2.5 GPA; or<\/li>\n<li>Two years of active military service with an honorable discharge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age and possess a valid driver\u2019s license with a good driving record.<\/li>\n<li>Must be a citizen of the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Have not had a peace officer, jailer, or reserve license issued by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (or any other like issuing authority) revoked or suspended for any reason.<\/li>\n<li>Have not been convicted or received probation for a Class A misdemeanor or above.<\/li>\n<li>Have not been convicted or received probation for a Class B misdemeanor within the last (10) ten years.<\/li>\n<li>Have never been convicted of any level of an offense involving Family Violence.<\/li>\n<li>If applicable, when discharged from the military, must have been discharged under honorable conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>All applicants must successfully pass the following to be hired:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Computerized Criminal History<\/li>\n<li>Background Investigation<\/li>\n<li>Polygraph<\/li>\n<li>Psychological Evaluation<\/li>\n<li>Physical Examination<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fa-etvc-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com\/hcmUI\/CandidateExperience\/en\/sites\/CX_1001\/requisitions?lastSelectedFacet=AttributeChar3&amp;mode=location&amp;selectedFlexFieldsFacets=%22AttributeChar3%7CSheriff%27s%22\"><strong><span class=\"redbold\">Applications can be made via t<\/span><span class=\"redbold\">his website <\/span><span class=\"redbold\"><u>here<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information on the application process, qualifications, and the benefits we offer, please contact our Personnel Section directly at <a href=\"recruiting@dallascounty.org\">recruiting@dallascounty.org<\/a> or 214-741-1094.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-721","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4335,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/721\/revisions\/4335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}