Police Officer

Position

Police Officer

Police

Patrol

KP&F

Non-Exempt

September 1, 2022

Police Officers are entry-level law enforcement positions within the Leavenworth Police Department. Officers must be capable of performing all essential job functions, unassisted, and at a pace and level of performance consistent with the actual job performance requirements.

• Operate a law enforcement vehicle during hours of darkness or daylight for extended periods of time, in routine and emergency situations involving speeds in excess of posted limits, in congested traffic and on unsafe road conditions caused by factors such as fog, smoke, rain, ice and snow.
• Perform rescue functions at accidents, emergencies, disasters, to include directing traffic for long periods of time, administrating emergency medical aid, lifting, dragging and carrying people away from dangerous situations, and securing and evacuating people from particular areas.
• Perform law enforcement patrol functions either on foot or in a vehicle, which include such things as working rotating shifts, physically checking doors and windows of businesses, identifying suspicious activities, violations of criminal or traffic laws, and initiating enforcement or corrective action.
• Make arrests, forcibly if necessary, using handcuffs and other restraints. Subdue resisting suspects using maneuvers and weapons, and resort to the use of hands and feet and other approved weapons and self-defense.
• Pursue fleeing suspects and perform rescue operations which may involve quickly entering and exiting law enforcement patrol vehicles; lifting, carrying, and dragging heavy objects; climbing over and pulling oneself up over obstacles; jumping down from elevated surfaces; climbing through openings; jumping over obstacles, ditches, and streams; crawling in confined areas; balancing on uneven or narrow surfaces; and using body force to gain entrance through barriers.
• Load and unload, aim and fire, from a variety of body positions handguns, shotguns, and other departmental firearms, under conditions of stress that justify the use of deadly force at levels of proficiency prescribed by the department.
• Respond to the scene of crimes, accidents and calls for service; search for, preserve, and collect evidence; investigate and interview victims, witnesses, and potential suspects; conduct appropriate investigative functions such as photographing, fingerprinting, field sobriety tests, and other investigative functions at the crime scene, as necessary.
• Prepare investigative and other reports, summonses, and sketches necessary for documenting an incident using the appropriate grammar, symbols and mathematical computations.
• Exercise independent judgement in determining when there is reasonable suspicion to detain, whether or not probable cause exists to search and arrest, and when force may be used and to what degree.
• Communicate effectively and coherently over law enforcement radio channels, telephones, public address systems, or by direct conversation.
• The ability to read, write, and comprehend legal and non-legal documents written in the English language, including the preparation and processing of such documents as citations, affidavits, and warrants.
• Perform searches of people, arrestees, vehicles, buildings, and large outdoor areas, which may involve detecting objects or substances through feeling, sight, hearing, and smell.
• Must have the ability to respond and assess situations regarding the well being of the public, department or fellow employees. Must possess the physical capabilities to implement and communicate decisions with tact and diplomacy while confronted with stressful, hostile, or irrational situations or persons.

• Officers will be exposed to working for long periods of time in unpleasant weather and other hazardous situations which will require continuous attention to safe working and operating procedures.
• Officers will periodically be exposed to the possibility of physical injury, pursuant to arrest, traffic hazards, exposure to biological and chemical substances, and other…