Basel
Training Security Assistance Prison Management & Object Protection
- 30 July 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent)
About the job
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Department of Justice and Security, Cantonal Police, Detention + Transport
01.03.2027
Your Tasks
Basic assignment: As a police security assistant, you are armed and work in uniform.
Tasks: You will be deployed for tasks such as prisoner transport, court platoon, hospital guarding and for monitoring stationary traffic. You share responsibility for security police access controls, surveillance and guarding.
Working hours: You work in shifts, including evenings, weekends and public holidays.
Your Profile
Experience: You are younger than 56.99 years (at the start of training) and hold a Swiss passport or a C residence permit and have an impeccable reputation. You are proficient with PC and smartphone.
Personality: You are a stable personality with a sense of proportionality. You demonstrate exemplary behaviour as well as physical and mental resilience. Social competence, team and communication skills complete your profile.
Education: You have completed a vocational apprenticeship EFZ/EBA or a higher school leaving certificate (Matura, FMS, HMS). You can ride a bicycle and hold a category B driving licence. Additionally, you can swim 400m continuously (at the start of training).
Language: German is your mother tongue or you are able to speak and write it fluently.
Insight into our Work
The Cantonal Police Basel-Stadt is part of the Department of Justice and Security and ensures safety, public order and enforcement of laws. Its mission is to grant great freedom and to work efficiently and effectively. Around 1000 employees play a key role at the heart of the trinational Basel region, entrusted with a wide range of tasks: from traffic monitoring to manhunts and interventions, to prevention and communication. The work of the Cantonal Police is central to making Basel a liveable city.
The training lasts four months and concludes with a nationally recognised certificate from the Swiss Police Institute. The training location is Basel. During the entire training, you are employed with full salary. Further insights are available at our information events. We look forward to your application.
We support you with more time for your family and an additional maintenance allowance on top of the family allowance.
We value and utilise the diversity of our employees and ensure an equal opportunity working environment.
We cover the larger share of ongoing contributions, offer savings plan options and possibilities for flexible retirement.
Your Contact
Questions about the role
Oliver Weiss
Head of Detention and Transport
Tel. +41 61 267 78 78
Questions about your application
Team
Recruiting & Marketing Department
Tel. +41 61 267 76 82
Versatile.
Working for Basel-Stadt.
Something all our more than 11,000 employees have in common: They engage at the pulse of the city by supporting, enabling, directing, shaping and protecting. In doing so, they contribute every day to making Basel-Stadt a place worth living and loving. As diverse as our tasks are our employees and their opportunities. Welcome to the team of the Canton Basel-Stadt!