Largo Police Department-Officer

Salary: $65,520.00 Bi-Weekly.

Essential Functions:

• Demonstrates an understanding and reflection of the City’s mission, vision, and values and a commitment to achieve organizational goals aligned with the City’s strategic plan
• Champions a high performance work culture that encourages and embraces new ideas, develops individuals and welcomes and encourages diverse perspectives
• Articulates strategic and innovative thinking and provides clarity to deliver superior services
• Approaches the job with enthusiasm and curiosity to promote a solutions-oriented work culture
• Effectively manages assignments and priorities to ensure the fulfillment of projects, tasks, and responsibilities
• Follows suggested procedures to assure the highest standards of risk management, employee safety and risk avoidance
• Responds to assignments received as a result of calls for service from the public and from superior officers
• Patrols assigned areas on foot, bicycle, motorcycle or in police vehicles; enforces traffic and criminal laws, parking
• regulations, and domestic violence injunctions; performs investigations, provides service, and generally provides for the
• safety of the public
• Responds to the scene of crimes, traffic accidents, and incidents; interviews suspects, prisoners, complainants, and
• witnesses in order to gather information; takes enforcement action, and files official reports
• Attends training for the city when necessary
• Maintains radio contact with department personnel via two-way radio
• Searches for and apprehends suspects involved in criminal activity
• Transports prisoners to the police building, detention facility, or treatment facility as required
• Testifies and presents evidence in court regarding policing duties
• Interacts with diverse groups of people within the department and the community in order to detect, prevent, and investigate
• suspected criminal activity; monitors businesses for compliance with laws and ordinances, and develops and maintains
• sources of information about criminal activities
• Takes proper safety precautions, anticipates unsafe circumstances, and acts accordingly to prevent accidents; responsible for
• safety of self, others, materials, and equipment
• Assists medical personnel on site; assists other agencies as required
• May be assigned special law enforcement related duties.

Requirements:

• Hearing: Ability to hear alarm signals, radio transmissions, understand what others are saying in normal conversation, and detect specific noises or voices during group conversations.
• Speaking: Ability to communicate orally with others in person, via radio and telephone transmissions, and during formal presentations to groups.
• Seeing: Ability to operate a vehicle, read fine print and normal print, and observe numbers, license plates, and street signs at night.
• Requires frequent driving and possession of a valid Florida Class “E” Driver’s License and appropriate endorsements.
• Technology: The work requires ability to operate telephones, smart phones, tablets, photocopiers, printers, desktop and/or laptop computers, calculators and all associated software. The work also requires proficiency with computer hardware and software programs including word, spreadsheet and/or database applications, internet applications, and database management.
• The work also requires the ability to operate video recording devices.
• The work requires proficiency with standard police tools.