Police Accountability Investigator
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Job Location:
Berkeley, CA - USA
Yearly Salary:
$ 116114 - 139932
Posted on:
14 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
BENEFITS OF WORKING FOR BERKELEY
As an employer the City of Berkeley offers all the benefits of a career in the public sector while fostering diversity creativity and innovation. Join a team of high-caliber experienced staff with a shared mission of serving the Berkeley community and promoting an accessible safe healthy environmentally-sound and culturally-rich city.
JOB OPPORTUNITY
The City of Berkeley invites you to apply for the position of Police Accountability Investigator! In this role you will have the opportunity to serve as an independent investigator of civilian complaints against members of the Police Department or against police policy or practices and managing/staffing the Hearing Panel process. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
A typical way of gaining the knowledge skills and abilities for this position is:
Equivalent to graduation from a four-year college with major course work in law or public administration or a closely related field and two (2) years of analytical investigative and/or legal-related experience in a public agency or similar setting.
Experience which will have provided a familiarity with law enforcement procedures and a skill in dealing with members of various ethnic and socio-economic groups is desirable. Some legal education and/or training sufficient to perform the requirements of this classification is required. Progressively responsible related experience may be substituted for the college course work on a year-for- year basis.
SPECIALSTATUS
This classification is excluded from the competitive service and the incumbent employed will be employed as an AT-WILL employee.
OTHER REQUIREMENTS
Must be willing to travel to various locations within and outside the City of Berkeley to meet the program needs and to fulfill the job responsibilities. When driving on City business maintenance of a valid California drivers license and a satisfactory driving record is required. Must be willing to conduct off-hours interviews and attend off-hours meetings.
APPLICATION PROCESS
Applications must be received by 5:00 PM Pacific on January 26 2026 and must include a completed application and answers to the supplemental questions. Please note that resumes are not a substitute for a completed application.
Applications are available in alternative formats (audio-format braille large print electronic text etc.) upon request to. Please allow 10 days for production of the material in an alternative format.
EXAM PROCESS
The exam process will include but may not be limited to:- Application review for minimum qualifications and required documents (qualifying experience will be calculated based on the administrative review date)
- Oral Board (with written exercise) Tentative date February 17 and /or 18 2026.
Reasonable Accommodations: The City is committed to making reasonable accommodations in the examination process and in the work environment. Individuals requesting reasonable accommodations in the examination process must submit a request in writing to at the time of application.
PRE-EMPLOYMENT PROCESS
Candidates under final consideration for employment with the City will undergo an employment background/reference check that may include but is not limited to: employment history confirmation of educational credentials and degrees licenses including drivers license registrations certificates other credentials credit check criminal history check and Live Scan fingerprinting.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY (EEO) EMPLOYER
The City of Berkeley is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. All employment actions shall be administered regardless of race color national origin ancestry religion age physical or mental disability or medical condition sex gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation genetic information marital status pregnancy political affiliation veterans status or any other status protected under federal state or local law.
DISASTER SERVICE WORKER
All City employees are required to provide services as Disaster Service Workers in the event of an emergency/disaster.
Key Skills
- Epidemiology
- Public Health
- Bank Secrecy Act
- Bioinformatics
- Fraud
- Genetics
- Interviewing
- Law Enforcement
- Qualitative Research Interviewing
- Research Experience
- Next Generation Sequencing
- Writing Skills
