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The Community

Roseville is a growing valley city with about 108,000 residents, situated fifteen miles northeast of Sacramento, 100 miles east of San Francisco and 100 miles west of LakeTahoe.

Roseville is one of the most prosperous employment, recreation, health care and retail shopping areas in California.Major employers in Roseville include Hewlett Packard, NEC Electronics, PRIDE Industries, Kaiser Permanente and Sutter Hospital. The 177-store Westfield Galleria shopping mall, the Roseville Automall and hundreds of other stores and restaurants draw shoppers from all over the region. Roseville is also a safe community for families. Roseville’s violent crime rate is 32 percent below the state average. The city’s high-ranked public schools and recreation venues--movie theater complexes, a water recreation park, nearby Folsom Lake, four golf courses, 53 parks and 3,236 acres of open space—make Roseville an ideal place to live, play, work, raise a family and retire.

The Department

The Roseville Police Department’s headquarters, opened in 1998, includes a recently expanded police and fire ten-station communications center, a fitness center, a 25-bed Type 1 jail staffed 24 hours a day by civilian correctional officers, and an indoor firing range. The RPD is currently staffed by approximately 200 permanent employees, including 128 sworn officers.

The RPD is a busy, full-service, community-oriented department.Officers and civilian community service take reports on a wide variety of calls every day, from minor thefts and “fender benders” to major crimes. Traffic is a priority in Roseville. While Roseville P.D. has dedicated traffic officers, all patrol officers help with traffic enforcement as time permits.All officers, regardless of their primary assignment, are also assigned as “neighborhood officers” to one of Roseville’s approximately 40 neighborhood areas. Neighborhood officers monitor their neighborhood’s crime trends and other concerns, attend neighborhood functions, and are the primary point of contact for residents who want to discuss matters of concern.

If you enjoy a wide variety of calls and interaction with citizens, then Roseville PD might be a good fit for you. In return you will receive the respect, support and appreciation of the Roseville community.

Special assignments

Qualified personnel may apply for the following assignments as they become available.

Full time rotational assignments:

Traffic (motors)

DUI enforcement

Investigation

Vice and Narcotics Enforcement Team

K9s

Crime Suppression Unit

Youth service/school resource officers

Regional narcotics task force

Regional auto theft task force

Collateral assignments:

SWAT officers and dispatchers

Hostage negotiation team

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (bomb squad)

Field Training Officer

Crime scene investigation (both sworn and non-sworn)

Public information field officers

Peer support team (sworn and non-sworn)

High technology forensic investigation team

For more information about the Roseville Police Department, contact Sgt. Merv Screeton in the professional standards unit at (916)746-1076, or email him at mscreeton@roseville.ca.us