Police Department

Auxiliary Police Unit

Auxiliary Police Unit
304 Albemarle Drive
Chesapeake, VA 23322

Auxiliary Officers are unpaid volunteers from within the community. Officers aid and assist the regular officers as a subordinate during their volunteer time and will follow orders and directions of the regular officer. Auxiliary Officers may be requested for special assignments covering special events. Any requests for special assignments of the Auxiliary Police will come through the Commander of the Uniform Patrol Section. Such events include: football games, parades, carnivals, school bazaars, city auctions, craft shows, city-sponsored events and other requests for security. Auxiliary Officers must work a minimum of sixteen hours of volunteer service per month.

Volunteer and Join The Team!

Opportunity... Never Better

What do you get when you join the Auxiliary Police Unit? Opportunity - You'll have an opportunity to serve the public, to help people who cannot help themselves, to prevent crime and

Eligibility Requirements

• You must be a United States citizen

• You must be 21 years of age

• Possess a High School diploma or GED

• Possess a valid Driver's License

• You must live in the City of Chesapeake

• Pass a written exam with a minimum score of 70

• Pass a background & polygraph investigation

• Pass a Physical examination

Automatic Disqualifiers

• Conviction of any felony or any crime involving acts of dishonesty, deceit, immorality or domestic violence

• Minus 6 or more points on a Virginia Driver's License or the equivalent for an out-of-state license

• Conviction of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, refusal to take blood or alcohol breath tests, eluding police, reckless driving or any suspension of driving privileges in the last 24 months

• Conviction of possession, manufacturing and / or distribution of illegal drugs

• Use of marijuana, cocaine, LSD, PCP or any type of hallucinogenic drug in the last 5 years, unless the applicant has successfully completed or is currently participating in a drug rehabilitation program and is no longer engaged in the illegal use of such drug

• Dishonorable discharge from any military service

• Untruthfulness or the intentional withholding of information on any application, interview or paperwork associated with the application

• Cheating on any examination or testing associated with the position

Training Requirements

All Auxiliary Officers must complete the Basic Auxiliary Academy, which consists of Tuesday and Thursday night classes from 6:00 to 10:00 PM, plus approximately 20 Saturdays. There will be approximately 500 hours of training time to complete the Basic Auxiliary Academy.

Entrance Testing Information

Written Exam

The written exam is divided into 3 sections: Math, Reading and Grammar.  Each section is timed (example: 20 minutes for 20 Math questions) and anything not answered within the time limit will be counted as an incorrect answer. You must score a 70 or above in each section in order to continue to the agility test. You may want to practice in the areas you feel are necessary and perhaps set up your own self timed practice test. There are also study guides for taking Police Officer Exams available in most bookstores.

A minimum of the top 100 candidates, in order of their scores on the written examination, will be processed through the remaining phases of the application process.  The cut-off score is not determined until several working days after the entrance exam.

Agility Test

Immediately following your successful completion of the written exam you will be administered a physical agility test. This test is an un-timed obstacle course consisting of the following tasks:

While in a sitting position you will be given a suspect's description. At the word "go" you will:

1. Run 25 yards
2. Jump over a 3 ft. simulated ditch
3. Run 25 yards
4. Climb over a 5 ft. high obstacle (wall)
5. Run 10 yards
6. Crawl under an obstacle 24 inches high and 10 feet long
7. Run 25 yards
8. Climb up and down a standard step for 12 repetitions
9. Run 15 yards
10. Crawl through a window
11. Run 10 yards
12. Identify the suspect (figure) from previous description
13. Run 15 yards
14. Drag a 150 lb. dummy 5 yards
15. Run 20 yards
16. Place the barrel of an unloaded firearm through a 6-inch diameter hole and fire the weapon one time strong handed and one-time weak handed.

After your successful completion of both the written exam and agility test, you will be given an information packet containing important police department information as well as a Chesapeake Police Personal History Statement. This will be a much more in depth application, which will need to completed and turned in by the deadline given in your packet.

How Do You Join?

Call the Chesapeake Police Department at (757) 382-6505 and an Auxiliary Police Supervisor will contact you and provide all the details.

Why join now? Because we need you!

Auxiliary Captain W. G. Davis is the point of contact for the Auxiliary Police Unit.