Police Officer (Recruits/Trainees)
Education and Experience:
- A high school diploma or General Educational Development (GED) equivalent.
- Must be at least 20 years and 8 months of age at the time of application.
- Must be a United States Citizen.
Essential Functions:
Performs duties and responsibilities commensurate with assigned functional area within a department(s) which may include, but are not limited to, any combination of the following tasks:
- Performs law enforcement patrol activities.
- Operates a motor vehicle and observes and monitors the public to determine compliance/noncompliance with prescribed operating or safety standards and laws. Pursues and stops offenders, subdues resisting offenders using necessary force where appropriate, including deadly force.
- Issues citations and makes arrests; searches persons, places, and things; seizes and impounds property and evidence; transports arrested persons and property.
- Mediates disputes; performs crowd and riot control activities.
- Conducts law enforcement investigations.
- Protects crime and traffic accident scenes; conducts face to face and phone interviews; observes, gathers, records, processes, and preserves evidence; measures and diagrams crime and traffic accident scenes; prepares detailed written reports of investigative findings; performs data entry of various police activity into computerized records management system, seizes and processes evidence; presents testimony and evidence in court.
- Responds to citizen requests for assistance to fires, accidents, and crime scenes; administers first aid to sick and injured citizens for a wide variety of illnesses and injuries; assists distressed motorists and crime scene individuals; direct traffic; moves persons, vehicles, and other property.