Lieutenant

Essential Functions:

• Implements orders and procedures received from command staff and explains to the staff the contents of new orders that affect their responsibilities.
• Reviews the performance of officers and supervisors regularly and determines if they are properly, effectively, and consistently carrying out their assigned duties.
• Develops training programs to instruct officers and sergeants on various police issues and courses to improve officers’ knowledge and skill level and to meet local and state regulations and standards.
• Coordinates functions within the department’s other divisions such as criminal investigations where patrol division and detective division coordinate activities in follow-up investigations of reported crimes.
• Supervises police and civilian personnel under their command.
• Responds to major emergencies, incidents and dispatches that require their presence as a commanding officer.