Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Traineeships
Intakes are conducted in Brisbane and Townsville subject to the level of interest in the program and the number of applications received.
Opportunity to become a Queensland Police Officer
The Queensland Police Service (QPS) offers traineeships in the Justice Entry Program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. These traineeships are part of the Service’s commitment to equal opportunity and diversity in employment, and provide the education qualifications for entry into the QPS as a police recruit, including a First Aid Certificate.
Trainees who successfully undertake this program will also be eligible to receive an Australian National Training Authority endorsed qualification.
Entry Requirements
Applicants must be of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent and ideally have completed a Year 12 school education with at least one or two years employment experience.
Alternatively, applicants who have a Year 10 education with extensive employment and life related skills, who demonstrate potential to succeed as a police officer, may also apply. Applicants must also meet police recruit entry requirements including integrity, health and fitness.
Driver Licence
Applicants must hold a current Australian Open Driver Licence to operate a motor vehicle (manual or automatic)
or
a current Australian Provisional Driver Licence, with one year of driving experience and successful completion of a defensive driving course recognised by the QPS.
The QPS recognises the following defensive driving course: Drive Vehicle in Queensland (TLIC107C)
Defensive driving courses must be delivered by a Registered Training Organisation (RTO).
Please click here to see a full list of RTOs that have agreed to list their names as providers of this course.
If you are appointed as a police recruit and your licence is from another state or territory, you will need to obtain a Queensland Open Driver Licence or a Provisional Driver Licence that meets the above requirements before commencing as a recruit. Proof of the currency of your driver licence is required with your application.
To drive police patrol vehicles, police officers must meet particular medical and health standards as outlined in the guidellines of the National Road Transport Commission. These medical standards have been incorporated into the medical and fitness testing associated with Stage 2 of the QPS selection process.
Duration
The traineeship is a six month, full-time course held at the Queensland Police Service academies in Brisbane and Townsville.
Salary
During the traineeship, trainees will receive a salary equal to that of a police recruit. This equates to a fortnightly gross salary of $1279.03*. For existing employees of the QPS, ordinary salary or wages will be maintained for the duration of the traineeship.
*Police recruit wage effective 1 July 2010
Justice Entry Program forms for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people:
* JEP Letter to Applicant (JEP Letter to Applicant|43615|application/pdf 42KB) ;
* JEP – Application Form (JEP – Application Form|66315|application/pdf 64KB) ;
* Assessment of Suitability Form (Assessment of Suitability Form|52314|application/pdf 51 KB) ;
* Health Assessment – Medical Questionnaire (Health Assessment – Medical Questionnaire|53803|application/pdf 52 KB) ;
* Consent and Authority Waiver (Consent and Authority Waiver|25887|application/pdf 25 KB) ;
* JEP – Confirmation of Aboriginality or Torres Strait Islander (Confirmation of Aboriginality or Torres Strait Islander |18162|application/pdf 18 KB) ;
* JEP Booklet (JEP Booklet|281759|application/pdf 275 KB) ;
* Health Screening and Physical Skills Education Brochure (Health Screening and Physical Skills Education Brochure|145392|application/pdf 141 KB) ;
* ADF Medical/Service History Records Waiver ( ADF Medical/Service History Records Waiver|255628|application/pdf 249.64K );
* Certificate of Fitness Indemnity form (Certificate of Fitness Indemnity form|226597|application/pdf 221 KB)
For information on the Justice Entry Program please contact:
POLICE RECRUITING
GPO Box 1440
Brisbane Qld 4001
Telephone (07) 3364 8000
Ms Rita Mills
Indigenous Employment Officer
Recruiting Section
(07) 3364 3099JEP flyer_Mar2010_web