Police Officer (Cadet)
Salary
$18.28 Hourly
Job Objectives:
- Investigate complaints, crimes, and traffic crashes.
- Ensure appropriate use of division facilities and equipment.
- Enforce City Ordinances, state and federal laws, and other regulations.
- Write reports for input to the division records system.
- Engage in public relations activities.
- Maintain relationships with external agencies.
- Continuously maintain personal and professional competence and awareness.
Job Standards
- Eyesight correctable to 20-20.
- Hearing correctable to normal range and adequate for use on standard telephone.
- Capable of speaking to individuals or large groups of English-speaking persons and being understood.
- Capable of climbing tall ladder, fence, earthen bank; running at average speed for a reasonable distance of two or three city blocks; lifting weights of eighty pounds or more to the waist.
- Demonstrated ability to safely drive an automobile with automatic transmission.
- Capable of reading, understanding, and remembering information from printed or handwritten materials.
- Capable of performing calculations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, percentages, fractions, and other algebraic formulae) and properly counting U.S. currency and change.
- Capable of writing, spelling, printing, and typing English to a high degree of grammatical correctness to convey the correct idea or intention to the reader.