Police Officers – Recruitment Process

As well as the essential requirements for the role our comprehensive recruitment process is designed to assess all elements of your suitability to become a Police Officer, as well as ensuring that SAPOL is the right career destination for you. As you can appreciate this process can take some time.

This section of the site will help answer your questions around your application, plan for test dates and make an application if you would like to move to South Australia or move to Australia from overseas.

You can also download our Recruitment Handbook (PDF, 548kb) to save or print for future reference.

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