Recruitment

Interested in a challenging and rewarding occupation where you will have the opportunity each and every day to make a positive impact on a dynamic and growing community? If so, then the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office is interested in you.

Career Opportunities

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office is a professional law enforcement organization dedicated to providing unparalleled service to its community. The Sheriff's Office offers a wide variety of career opportunities in law enforcement, corrections and civilian support positions. A career with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office offers many rewards:

• Excellent benefits and competitive salaries
• Amazing variety of work and challenges
• Opportunities to make significant positive impacts on people in your community
• Challenging public service career
• Pride in being a member of one of the best law enforcement agencies in the country
• Starting Pay with NO experience:  $ 61,512.00
  Lateral Pay up to: $ 69,201.00

Requirements

Lateral Applicant Qualifying Credentials 

1. U.S. Citizen or U.S. citizenship established by time of appointment
2. Valid Driver’s License (Valid Indiana License by the time of appointment) and has no more than six (6) active points
3. No felony convictions or any misdemeanor convictions for domestic violence
4. Have legal ability to possess a firearm
5. High School Graduate or high school equivalency diploma
6. Ability to read and write English
7. Must be at least 21 years of age by Merit Board Interview
8. Ability to pass all the components of the selection process.
9. Merit deputies are required to maintain primary residency within a 20-mile radius of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, 18100 Cumberland Road, Noblesville, IN 46060.  Newly hired merit deputies who do not live within the 20-mile radius shall have nine (9) months from their date of hire to meet the residency requirement. 
10. No convictions for Operating While Intoxicated or operating under the influence of drugs within the previous five (5) years
11. Shall not have been dishonorably discharged from the military
12. Shall not have used an illegal drug in the last two (2) years
13. Meet one of the following:
    A) ILEA Tier I graduate 
    B) Graduate from another Indiana academy recognized by the ILETB as equivalent to Tier I
    C) Eligible to receive a waiver from ILEA for Tier I, https://secure.in.gov/ilea
14. Meet one of the following: 
    A) Currently employed as a Law Enforcement Officer 
    B) Meet the IC 5-2-1-9 Rules
15. Have a minimum of 2 years of Law Enforcement experience 
16. Shall not have been suspended by another law enforcement agency in the twelve (12) months prior to the application deadline. Shall not have been decertified as a police officer or "Brady" disqualification. 

Reapplication

The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office allows reapplication, retesting, and re-evaluation of candidates not appointed unless the condition(s) which previously eliminated them from appointment are of a nature that another rejection is assured (e.g. criminal background), or an insufficient amount of time has passed to allow the applicant time to show a pattern of appropriate characteristics for reconsideration. These determinations will be made by the selection review committee. When reapplying, the applicant will restart the screening process from the beginning. There shall be no reference made to the candidate's first testing, and it shall not be held against the candidate in any manner.