Exceptional Entry Police Officer

Lynnwood, WA
Lynnwood Police Department

Salary: $49.18 – $59.58 Hourly.

Essential Functions:

  • Provide service to the citizens of the City of Lynnwood to safeguard and protect their lives, property, and constitutional rights.
  • Acquire and maintain thorough knowledge of all state, county, and city laws and ensure equal and impartial enforcement.
  • Acquire and maintain familiarity with administrative policy and execute service programs within assigned area of responsibility.
  • Secure all information pertinent to the proper conduct of business prior to the tour of duty.
  • Inspect and maintain all equipment used.
  • Ensure civil treatment and protection of all rights of all persons coming within the scope of police authority.
  • Maintain firearm proficiency.
  • Comply with all safety standards and regulations.
  • Work toward the achievement of departmental and divisional objectives within assigned area of responsibility.
  • Gather, submit, and maintain intelligence information and provide information to other units that may be useful to their investigations.
  • Maintain awareness of newly enacted laws and recent court decisions and their effect on police duties and responsibilities.
  • Respond to crime and/or traffic accident scenes and ensure the protection of the scene and all physical evidence and witnesses until relieved by higher authority.
  • Conduct preliminary investigation at crime scenes until either relieved by a detective or to a point where a lapse in the investigation would not hamper or jeopardize the outcome of the case.
  • Discern crime, public disorder, attractive nuisances, and other crime generating conditions and develop corrective strategies.
  • Resolve neighborhood crime and/or disorder problems.
  • Maintain radio communication during tour of duty, including mealtimes, and maintain a response time conducive to the needs of the citizens served, promptly responding to all calls assigned and to those calls assigned other units where their closer proximity and the nature of the call demands immediate response.
  • Maintain familiarity with the city and specific areas of assignment.
  • Provide first aid and rescue services at crime scenes, accidents, disasters, and other emergency situations.
  • Engage in a wide variety of traffic direction and crowd control activities, particularly in connection with traffic accidents, demonstrations, riots, and disasters.
  • Promote and preserve order, defend persons from imminent physical harm, respond to requests for protective service, resolve conflicts between individuals and groups and protect individual constitutional guarantees.
  • Maintain records of daily activities and present testimony at judicial proceedings and other formal hearings.
  • Serve as an interpreter of the law to exercise discretion in determining whether to take no action, to advise, to warn, or to arrest.
  • Enforce all moving violations and parking regulations according to city ordinances to ensure the smooth flow of traffic throughout the City of Lynnwood.
  • Make recommendations to improve operational effectiveness.
  • Encourage voluntary compliance with the law and reduce the opportunity for criminal activity.
  • Give special speeches and presentations to civic and other groups to promote the police image as assigned.
  • Evaluate officer performance and complete necessary report forms while assigned to the Field Officer Training and Evaluation Program.

Requirements:

  • Must have been employed as a full-time paid law enforcement officer with a municipal, county or state law enforcement agency 12 months or less continually and be currently employed or separated less than 24 months at time of application and;
  • Must have satisfactorily completed the Washington State Basic Law Enforcement Officer course or meet the standards prescribed by the Washington State Training Agency Commission for Equivalency.