Career Opportunities
CURRENT JOB OPENINGS
As the largest police department in the region, KCPD offers officers and professionals the chance to find the perfect role. Check out the open positions below.
Police Officer
Serve Kansas City by protecting life and property, enforcing laws and ordinances, conducting traffic enforcement, preventing crime, patrolling assigned areas, investigating accidents, resolving disturbances, and supporting prosecutions.
Assistant Director - Kansas City Crime Laboratory
Support the Director in planning, organizing, managing, leading, coordinating, and directing division operations. Manage operations while providing guidance and leadership over the Chemistry, Digital Evidence, DNA, Firearms, Latent Print and Trace Sections. Be responsible for Division operations in Director’s absence. Assists the Director in strategic planning, promoting the laboratory’s vision and values, and communicating with laboratory stakeholders. Also responsible for planning, coordinating and directing the work activities of assigned staff and evaluating their performance. **APPLICATION DEADLINE: MARCH 30, 2026**
Forensic Specialist - DNA Section
Grant funded position responsible for examining, identifying, and analyzing various types of evidence and producing written reports of findings. As well as testifying as an expert witness in court. **APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 3, 2026**
Auto Servicer
Provide body repair and reconstruction for departmental vehicles and all other department automotive equipment.
Auto Mechanic
Provide body repair and reconstruction for departmental vehicles and all other department automotive equipment.
Detention Officer
Processes arrests, utilizes intake procedures, conducts detainee release procedures, facilitates bonding, coordinates transfers, and manages the detainee population within the detention unit.
The Kansas City Missouri Police Department employment practices are designed to hire, promote, and assign members without discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, limited English proficiency, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, disability, or low-income level.
NOTE: Marijuana and its various analogues, derivatives, and precursors, in whatever form, even if prescribed under a state medical marijuana law, remains illegal under federal law and is prohibited under the employer’s policy.