Patrol Officer

Augusta, ME
Augusta Police Department

Salary: $25.79 to $34.43 per hour.

Closing Date: 12-31-2024

Essential Functions:

  • Patrol City streets, parks, and commercial and residential areas to preserve the peace and enforce the law, control vehicular traffic prevent or detect and investigate misconduct involving City ordinance violations, misdemeanors, felonies, and other law violations, and to otherwise serve and protect.
  • Respond to emergency and non-emergency radio calls or other transmissions and investigate accidents, robberies, civil disturbances, domestic disputes, fights, drunkenness, missing children, prowlers, abuse of drugs, etc. Takes appropriate law enforcement action.
  • Interrogates suspects, witnesses, and drivers. Preserves evidence. Arrests violators. Investigate and render assistance at the scene of vehicular accidents. Summons ambulances and other law enforcement vehicles. Takes measurements and draws diagrams of scenes.
  • Conducts follow-up investigations of crimes committed or reported during assigned shifts. Seeks out and questions victims, witnesses, and suspects. Develops leads and tips. Searches scenes of crimes for clues. Analyzes and evaluates evidence and arrests offenders.
  • Prepares a variety of reports and records including investigation reports, field interrogation reports, OUI reports, bad check reports, vehicle impoundment/inventory forms, etc.
  • Participates in investigating criminal law violations occurring within the city limits, obtaining evidence and compiling information regarding these crimes, preparing cases for filing of charges, testifying in court, and related activities.
  • Conduct patrol activities including directing traffic, investigation of reported or observed violations of law, and conducting patrol activities.

Requirements:

  • Possess a high school diploma or equivalent college.
  • A Maine Driver’s License is required with no O.U.I. conviction.
  • Passed the Maine Criminal Justice Academy Alert test.
  • Maine Criminal Justice Academy physical fitness test.
  • 200-hour Pre-Service Certification is preferred.
  • Physical fitness tests, oral interviews, in-depth criminal and personal background investigations, polygraph tests, psychological exam, and physical are required of selected applicants.