You may apply to be Smithfield Police Officer only during open application periods. The Department’s open application period will start after the 1st of the year. Continue to monitor the web site for more information on when the application period will start. If you live out of state and cannot get to the Smithfield Police Station, you may call and leave your information with the Uniform Commander, Captain Robert Eaton Jr., and we will mail an application to you. The minimum required qualifications to become a Smithfield Police Officer are:

• Must be eighteen years or older;
• Must be a citizen of the United States;
• Must possess a valid driver’s license;
• Must possess a Bachelors Degree preferably in the field of Criminal Justice or Law Enforcement.
• Also see the employment page for further information.

The Smithfield Police Department conducts fingerprinting for childcare workers, securities work, gun permit applications and schoolteachers.  Any person seeking employment with a private school or public school department, who has not previously been employed by a private or public school department in Rhode Island during the past twelve (12) months, shall undergo a national and state criminal background check to be initiated prior to or within one week of employment, after receiving a conditional offer of employment.  The applicant shall apply to their local police department, in the city or town where they reside.  

Fingerprinting is done in the Detective Division by appointment only. 

All applicants must provide proper identification before being fingerprinted.

Call the Smithfield Police Department Detective Division at 401-233-1036, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, to make an appointment.

FINGERPRINTING FEE SCHEDULE 

If you or your business have been a victim of receiving a check for goods or services rendered and upon deposit received a notice from your bank that the account on which the check was drawn, has been closed or non-sufficient funds exist (the returned check must be stamped indicating so).  You must follow-up by sending a certified letter to the person who wrote the check.   A copy of a form letter is available at the Smithfield Police Department Detective Division, between 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.  After waiting 7 days from the day the certified letter was sent and receiving no reply, you can then file a complaint with the Smithfield Police Department Detective Division.

These stickers are not available at the Smithfield Police Department. Please visit the Recreation Department page on the Town of Smithfield website for information.

The Collision Reconstruction Unit currently consists of four members of the Smithfield Police Department.  Each member has to undergo 240 hours of intense training.  A good foundation in mathematics is a plus, but is not necessary.  When there is an accident that involves death or serious injury and the Uniform Commander determines that an collision reconstruction is necessary to investigate the cause, an collision reconstructionist will be summoned to the scene.  The reconstructionist may also be required to attend an autopsy in the event of a fatality.  The reconstructionist will then spend several weeks determining what caused the collision (mechanical, physical or health related).  All four members have completed the 240 hours of training and are certified collision reconstructionist.  For more information, please contact Captain Michael Rheaume or Sergeant Dennis Courtemanche at (401-231-2500). 

To view Smithfield Police Department Civilian Complaint Procedures, click here.