Join GPPD

The Grand Prairie Police Department in Grand Prairie, Texas, is continually seeking diverse, highly motivated, community-oriented officers with integrity, who are willing to face a variety of challenges and responsibilities.

We are committed to working in partnership with the residents of our growing community to provide a safe, secure environment to enhance the quality of life for over 200,640 Grand Prairie residents.

Career Opportunities


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Kind Of Work

Grand Prairie police officers work to enforce state and municipal laws in order to ensure the safety of the City's citizens. This is accomplished by investigating criminal offenses; providing community outreach; preparing and presenting criminal cases; assisting with accidents; responding to disturbance calls; and participating in specialized investigations. Other duties include performing minor vehicle and office maintenance; and interacting with other City employees and citizens.

Applicants must have a general capacity to perform tasks required of peace officers, including (but not limited to) capability of unassisted performance of physical agility tasks reflective of peace officer duties. These will include capacity to run, jump, turn, pivot, stoop, climb and execute similar movements; push, lift, remove, install and otherwise handle objects and persons weighing 50-200 pounds, and subdue resisting individuals by exercise of physical force so as to take into custody and transport them against their will.

Newly hired police officers will be assigned to patrol duties for a minimum of 2 years before being eligible for other assignments. Interested officers may wish to expand the range of experience by transferring into other fields available to them such as Detectives, Traffic Enforcement, Community Service, Training, Tactical Team and many others.

"We Protect and Serve"

Recent Top Accomplishments

  • Amongst the Top 10 of the Safest Cities in Texas of 34 cities with a population over 100,000
  • Implementation of the Bicycle Unit designed to protect our retail assets & attack crime hot spots
  • 2nd Annual Cowboy Cops Rodeo benefiting Special Olympics - 20K Donation to Special Olympics Texas
  • Formation of the Case Processing Office
  • Midnight Basketball at YMCA
  • Cops-N-Kids Fishing event
  • Creation of “Two Way Street” program to enhance youth & police interaction
  • Blue/Red Run benefitting Texas Police Chief’s Foundation
  • Passage of a convenience/dollar store ordinance
  • Citizens on Patrol (COPS) Awarded the “Membership of the Year” award
  • Created the Family Violence Lethality Assessment to help prevent domestic violence
  • Created the Eagle Eyes program to educate our public on how to help us prevent and reduce property crimes
  • Creation of the School Resource Officer K-9 Position

Contact Information

Recruiting Contact

Office: 972-237-8690
Cell/Text: 817-716-4188
Email: Cperez@GPTX.org


Police Department

1525 Arkansas Lane
Grand Prairie, TX 75052

Emergency: 911
Non-emergency:
972-237-8790

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