Police Officer Entry Level

JOB SUMMARY

Work involves performing a variety of duties in the area of law enforcement and crime prevention, including patrol, traffic enforcement, criminal investigations, administration, and support services, under general supervision.

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Note:

The duties and responsibilities enumerated in this job description are for the purpose of determining a common set of minimum qualifications and salary level for all positions in this class. They are not intended to include all the job duties of all positions in the job classification. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described.)

• Operates a motor vehicle at all hours and in all types of weather while simultaneously conducting surveillance, serving people, places, and things, and using a police radio to communicate. Operates motorcycle, patrol car, van or other types of police vehicles as required;
  Directs traffic and enforces traffic laws;
  Escorts funerals, parades, and other public processions, maintains order in crowds and attends parades, funerals or other public gatherings and quells rioters or other unruly disturbances; issues citations when appropriate.
• Conducts overt and covert observation and monitoring of people and places, day, and night and in all types of weather, while patrolling on foot or in a vehicle, bicycle or other conveyance to observe details, watch for stolen vehicles and missing persons, investigate suspicious conditions, and takes proper measures to react and respond to audio and visual information.
• Patrols and responds to a variety of criminal activities requiring law enforcement, such as, homicides, sexual assaults, robberies, property crimes, domestic violence, vice and narcotics crimes, and crimes by and against juveniles; evaluates situations and determines the most appropriate course of action.
• Responds to calls for service in all types of weather and environments under unpredictable conditions. Responds to the scene of fires, traffic accidents, or hazards gives all possible assistance including rescue functions, first aid, directs traffic, collaborates with the community, conducts interviews, prepares necessary reports.
• Performs investigations and undercover or plainclothes investigative and serves on multi-jurisdictional task forces when required. Conducts arrests of persons who violate laws and ordinances, transports arrestees, develops all necessary reports, and appears and testifies in court.
• Pursuing and subduing prisoners; controlling uncooperative individuals both orally and, when necessary through physical restraint; physical confrontations using the minimum force necessary to affect arrest.
• Responds to the scene of land or water accidents; performs proper and necessary rescue functions; administers first aid; directs traffic; and performs other activities, during day and night hours and in all types of weather and environments under unpredictable conditions.
• Work requires overtime, shift work, and standby when necessary.
• Serves as crime scene processor, collecting and evaluating evidence, submitting evidence to the property section, taking, and processing photographs, lifting latent prints, DNA etc.
• Hear and recognize sounds and voices associated with emergencies and take proper measures to react and respond to audio information.
• Responds to calls for service from citizens, meets and interviews citizens in their homes, places of business, on the street, or wherever required.
• Performs administrative duties, including preparing and presenting court testimony, maintaining case files, classifying incident reports, answering phones, dispatching patrol vehicles, preparing and completing forms, narrative reports, and correspondence as well as other clerical and administrative duties.

• Knowledge and understanding of law enforcement work, federal, state, and local laws, ordinances, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Knowledge of the City boundaries, jurisdiction, geography, and streets.
• Knowledge of common safety rules, regulations, procedures, and practices, including effective restraint techniques, basic first aid, and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) procedures.
• Skilled in observation and memory.
• Ability, after training, to operate motor vehicles and police issued equipment; and ability to learn and apply police/law enforcement principles, practices, methods, techniques, and equipment in daily work situations.
• Ability to operate small office equipment and computer data for entry, word processing and/or recordkeeping purposes.
• Ability to operate highly technical computer applications, such as GIS or Computer Aided Dispatch.
• Ability to operate small/light and medium equipment and machinery.
• Ability to evaluate and respond to…