How to Apply: Chaplain: Warrant Officer - SAPS KwaZulu Natal

Only the official application form (available on the SAPS website (www.saps.gov.za)  and at SAPS recruitment offices/Police Stations) will be accepted. All instructions on the application form must be adhered to. Failure to do so may result in the rejection of the application. The Z83 previously utilized will no longer be accepted.

Late applications will not be accepted or considered.

• The post particulars and reference number of the post must be correctly specified on the application form.
• A comprehensive Curriculum Vitae as well as uncertified copies of an applicant’s ID document, motor vehicle driver’s licence (where required), all educational qualifications obtained together with academic records thereof and service certificates of previous employers stating the occupation, must be submitted together with the application form.
• Documentation of short-listed candidates must be produced during the selection process as requested.
• Qualifications and driver’s licences submitted will be subjected to verification with the relevant institutions.
• The South African Police Service will verify the residential address of applicants and conduct reference checks on all short-listed candidates.
• All shortlisted candidates will be subjected to fingerprint screening.
• Candidates short-listed for appointment to certain identified posts will be vetted in terms of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007 (Act No 32 of 2007) and the Children's Act, 2005 (Act No 38 of 2005). A candidate, whose particulars appear in either the National Register of Sex Offenders or Part B of the Child Protection Register, will be disqualified from appointment to the post.  All shortlisted candidates will be subjected to fingerprint screening.

• Candidates are expected to disclose if he/she is a respondent in an interim or final protection order in terms of the Domestic Violence Act, 1998 (Act no 116 of 1998) or Protection from Harassment Act, 2011 (Act No 17 of 2011), and may be disqualified from appointment to that post.

• The Criminal Law (Forensic Procedures) Amendment Act, Act 37 of 2013 requires that all new appointments in the South African Police Service as of 31 January 2015 provide a buccal (inside cheek) sample in order to determine their forensic DNA profile.  The forensic DNA profile derived from the sample will be loaded into the Elimination Index of the National Forensic DNA Database.

• Applicants appointed in terms of the Police Service Act will be subjected to a medical assessment by a medical practitioner as determined by SAPS prescripts.
• Applicants appointed under the Police Service Act will be subjected to undergo a lateral entry programme at a SAPS Academy & Training Centre and will be expected to qualify as competent and to maintain such competency throughout his or her service, by the employee to possess and use of a firearm(s) as required by the SAPS.
• If a candidate is short-listed, it can be expected of him/her to undergo a personal interview and be subjected to security clearance.
• Persons with previous convictions are excluded.
• Appointments will be made in terms of the South African Police Service Act, (Act 68 of 1995) as applicable to the post environment.
• Correspondence will be conducted with successful candidates only. If you have not been contacted within three (3) months after the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful.

• The South African Police Service is under no obligation to fill a post after the advertisement thereof.
• Application may be hand delivered or couriered  to the following addresses:

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