Civil Service: Entry-Level Police

Cleveland Heights, OH
Cleveland Heights Police Department

Salary: $79,240.36 – $89,904.81 Annually

Closing Date: 5/9/2025

Essential Functions:

  • Patrols and observed assigned areas.
  • Promptly, quickly and safely responds to calls for service.
  • Familiarizes self with citizens, commercial establishments and residential areas of the city to prevent and detect criminal behavior and maintain order.
  • Makes periodic checks of businesses and residences within the assigned zone to determine if any unusual or hazardous conditions exist.
  • Observes and investigates suspicious persons or places.
  • Arrest violators of laws and ordinances.
  • Investigates crimes, provides traffic and crowd control, investigates traffic accidents.
  • Administers first-aid to injured persons.
  • Uses non-assigned time for self-initiated criminal and traffic enforcement.
  • Promptly prepares and submits reports that are intelligent, legible and complete.
  • Exercises independent initiative and judgment
  • Arrests violators of laws and ordinances.
  • Serves warrants on suspects and issues summons and citations.
  • Enforces laws, arrests, pursues, apprehends and prosecutes persons who violate federal, state and local laws, statutes and ordinances.
  • Makes arrests and uses reasonable and justifiable amount of force necessary to control a given situation.
  • Searches for weapons and/or evidence before transporting arrested person to the station.
  • Treats all persons within his/her scope of authority in a civil manner and takes such action to assure the protection of their civil rights.
  • Responsible for investigation of crimes, traffic accidents and suspicious activity
  • Investigates crimes, incidents, traffic accidents, alarms, suspicious circumstances and citizen complaints or concerns.
  • Conducts preliminary investigations, interviews victims, witnesses, and suspects
  • Conducts custodial interrogations of arrested persons safeguarding their constitutional rights.
  • Prepares criminal reports, testifies and presents evidence in court.
  • Responsible traffic control and enforcement of traffic laws
  • Enforces the laws relating to the operation and use of vehicles on the roadways.
  • Enforces traffic laws by stopping motorists and issuing citations or warning as appropriate; maintains acceptable levels of enforcement and relates traffic activities to the location, time, and causes of accidents.
  • Enforces the laws relating to registration and licensing of motor vehicles.
  • Arrests intoxicated and drug-influenced drivers.
  • Assists stranded motorists and others in need of assistance; give directions to lost motorists or pedestrians.
  • Gains effective and prompt control of an accident scene and properly utilizes necessary supporting resources.
  • Seeks to determine the needs of the community and to act upon those needs.
  • Provides information to citizens on new policies for improved delivery of services
  • Notifies businesses of potential security hazards.
  • Notifies appropriate agency or utility regarding public hazards.
  • Notifies and warns citizens of violations of laws or ordinances.
  • Utilizes excellent communication skills.

Requirements:

  • Applicants must be at least 21 years of age and not older than 36 years of age at the time of appointment.
  • This is subject to exceptions for Basic Patrol Officers in continued service since August 1, 1997, as per Civil Service Rule III, Sections 2(e).
  • Applicant must be a Citizen of the United States.