The Alternate Route Program has been suspended statewide until January 2013. The Police Training Commission board will readdress the issue at their October 2012 meeting. We recommend that you continue to make yourself a better candidate through additional training, education and experience.

Interested candidates take a written examination conducted by the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police, with those successful candidates participating in a physical fitness assessment, with those successful candidates participating in an oral interview conducted by the Law & Public Safety Institute.

Qualifiers must download the course application package and return it to BCLPSI.

Eligibility Requirements: US Citizen and Resident of New Jersey

Age: 20-35 years old (must be twenty (20) years of age by date of written examination and not over thirty-five (35) at completion of program

Medical: Candidate must be of sound body and of good health sufficient to participate in the physical training program

Background: Candidates must be of good moral character, and must have no criminal convictions

Education, Military & work: Must have minimum of 60 college credits, or two (2) years active military service, or two years of full-time work experience.

In the alternative, following the applicant’s eighteenth birthday, he/she must demonstrate successful completion of thirty (30) college credits and one (1) year of active military experience or thirty (30) college credits and one (1) year full-time work experience.

(Must bring copy of DD214 as proof of military service)

At the time of registration, individuals must show two (2) proofs of state residency and must pay a $130.00 non-refundable registration fee payable to the COUNTY OF BERGEN. Cashiers check or money orders only. NO PERSONAL CHECKS.