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Oregon State Police - How to Become An OSP Trooper

Trooper Information
Special Career Opportunities​​
  • Aircraft Pilot
  • Criminal Detective
  • Bomb Tech
  • Instructor
  • Motorcycle Trooper
  • Polygraph Detective
  • Arson Investigator
  • Honor Guard 
  • Fish/Wildlife Trooper
  • Management positions
  • Patrol Trooper
  • S.W.A.T.
  • Homeland Security Detective
  • Dignitary Protection
  • Tribal Gaming/Lottery Detective
  • Mobile Response Team
  • Drug Detection K-9's
  • Narcotics Detective
 
   
             Bomb Squad                                 SWAT / Negotiators                              Instructors
 
   
         Criminal Detectives                              Aircraft Pilot                              Drug Detection K-9 Handler
 
   
               Motors Unit                                  Mobile Response Team                         Fish and Wildlife
 
   
                     Patrol                                       Honor Guard                                 Dignitary Protection
 
 

Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Enforcement of all criminal, fish and wildlife, and motor vehicle laws.
  • Investigation of crimes, fish and wildlife violations, and motor vehicle accidents.
  • Provide police services which are fair and impartial to all citizens.
  • Preserve the peace.
  • Prevention and detection of crime.
  • Coordination of police activities with all criminal justice agencies.

Working Conditions:
  • Make enforcement contacts with the public with some risk to their safety and are required to respond to a variety of emergency situations, some of which may be life-threatening in nature.
  • Work varied hours of the day or night, weekends, holidays, and during inclement weather and on difficult terrain.
  • Subject to call-back to duty in case of emergencies, court, etc.
  • Maintain a level of physical fitness in order to perform duties under any conditions.

Next Testing Date
  • Applications are being accepted to build a sufficient applicant pool for future hiring.
  • Applicants will be notified by mail of the exact test date.