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Becoming an Essex County Sheriff’s Officer requires candidates to take the New Jersey Department of Personnel examination. Upon taking the examination, the New Jersey Department of Personnel ranks all candidates on its eligibility list.

If you are interested in taking this examination, please direct all inquires to:

New Jersey Department of Personnel
P.O. Box 314
Trenton, New Jersey 08625

The Essex County College Police Academy offers an Alternate Route Program in which the individual candidate absorbs the cost of the academy with the hope of being hired by a non civil service agency. For further information please follow the link http://www.essex.edu/pacademy/alternate.route.html