Detective Sergeant Sarah Hammond

 

 

 

Because I enjoy work, it makes me a better mum.

- Detective Sergeant Sarah Hammond

Detective Sergeant Sarah Hammond

Because I enjoy work, it makes me a better mum.

- Detective Sergeant Sarah Hammond

A rewarding career

A rewarding career

Working for the Australian Federal Police lets you develop a career path that provides interest, challenge, growth and flexibility.

Whether you’re looking to become a police officer or protective service officer (PSO), fill a specialist role or work in a support capacity, you will experience a career that provides unique challenges and rewards.

It’s also a career that offers generous benefits and entitlements, enabling work/life balance and the opportunity to work in different regional and international locations, plus extensive support services to provide any help that’s needed.

Salary and leave entitlements

Salary and leave entitlements

Certain entitlements may vary between categories of AFP employment depending on your work location, type of work, working pattern and access to flexible work opportunities. However, standard salary and leave benefits include:

  • Clear salary progression governed by the AFP Enterprise Agreement and AFP Executive Level Enterprise Agreement 
  • Six weeks (30 days) of paid annual leave per year (with options to purchase additional leave, take leave at half pay and cash out leave)
  • Four mandatory rest days per year
  • 18 days of paid personal leave per year
  • 16 weeks of paid maternity leave (after 12 months of service) for each confinement, and an additional 36 weeks of maternity leave without pay
  • Paid long service leave after 10 years of continuous Commonwealth service
  • Adoption leave and compassionate leave provisions available.

Other key benefits include:

  • Comprehensive superannuation measures
  • 40-hour working week (subject to flexible working requirements)
  • Career advancement and investment in your professional development
  • Team-based work environment based on mutual respect and cooperation and free from discrimination, bullying and harassment.

Diversity-focused employee networks

There are also five diversity-focused employee networks:

  • National Women’s Advisory Network for women
  • Malunggang Indigenous Officers Network for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 
  • GLLO Network for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
  • AFP Ability Advisory (AAA) Network for people with disabilities (including mental health)
  • CALD Network for people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

Diversity-focused employee networks

Support services

To provide help when and where it’s needed, the AFP provides a suite of holistic health and well-being services to support AFP employees throughout their careers. These are provided by a range of skilled professionals, including psychologists, chaplains, social workers, health and fitness advisers, nurses, mental health nurses, rehabilitation case managers and welfare officers.

This network of services provides support to employees and their families and can help facilitate pathways to professional help or other forms of assistance.

The AFP’s primary health support service is Organisational Health, which provides a suite of health and well being services to support all AFP employees.

There are also five diversity-focused employee networks:

  • National Women’s Advisory Network for women
  • Malunggang Indigenous Officers Network for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people 
  • GLLO Network for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people 
  • AFP Ability Advisory (AAA) Network for people with disabilities (including mental health)
  • CALD Network for people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.

More information for candidates

What we do
Culture and Diversity
Business areas and roles
Police Officer Careers
Protective Services Officer Careers
Specialist and Support Careers

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