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Pay Classification 2026 <br /> Sergeants <br /> Detectives <br /> Patrolman First Class <br /> Patrolman Second Class <br /> (b) Police Recruit Annual Pay. A Recruit of the South Bend Police Department shall be classified <br /> separately from sworn members of the Department. A Recruit shall complete the State of <br /> Indiana training program or its equivalent and commence duties as an officer before being <br /> sworn in as an officer of the South Bend Police Department. Upon the effective sworn date, a <br /> Recruit shall be paid as a Patrolman 2"d Class. The maximum annual pays of a Police <br /> Department Recruit shall be as follows: <br /> Pay Classification 2026 <br /> Police Recruit <br /> (c) Lateral Entry Program. The Common Council authorizes the South Bend Police Department <br /> to offer between three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500.00) to ten thousand dollars <br /> ($10,000.00) as a one-time bonus, to be paid in equal quarterly installments in the first year <br /> of employment, to any individual found to be eligible and qualified to be a candidate on the <br /> Department, who has the requisite law enforcement experience and certification(s) for such a <br /> lateral entry into the South Bend Police Department. Any sworn member who received monies <br /> pursuant to this Lateral Entry Program and who leaves employment from the South Bend <br /> Police Department before his/her one (1) year anniversary with the Department, shall be <br /> required to pay back to the South Bend Police Department any and all lateral bonus monies <br /> received. <br /> A lateral entry officer with two (2) years or less of service as a certified officer shall enter the <br /> South Bend Police Department as a Patrolman Second Class. Upon completing Field Training <br /> Program (FTO), such lateral officer shall be eligible for promotion to Patrolman First Class. <br /> (d) Police Officer Recruitment Bonus Program. The Police Officer Recruitment Bonus Program <br /> which originally became effective January 1, 2015, shall continue in full force and effect. Any <br /> City of South Bend Employee who assists in the recruitment and hiring of any full-time new <br /> sworn police officer, may be eligible upon Department verification of each of the stages listed <br /> below: <br /> 1. Upon an individual,who has been recruited by a City of South Bend Employee,graduating <br /> from the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy, the sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00) <br /> shall be allocated for payment for that City of South Bend Employee who assisted in the <br /> recruitment. <br />