Police Chief
Salary: $76,671.00 – $115,006.00 Annually.
Position Summary:
Performs administrative, managerial, and specialized law enforcement work in planning, organizing, and directing the activities of the Police Department; performs related work as required.
Essential Functions:
- Performs all administrative functions to include strategically planning departmental goals and objectives for a long/short term period; projects and develops budgetary needs for the department and provides recommendations to management; monitors monthly budget and supervises and monitors grants; oversees effective and efficient stewardship of vehicles, equipment, staff time management and prioritization of departmental work plans.
- Establishes and communicates standards of performance and a philosophy of law enforcement for the department; develops joint vision and clear direction with staff; develops staff capacities; creates a high performance work team provides leadership, motivation, conflict resolution, performance coaching, and evaluation programs for staff.
- Participates in recruitment and selection of personnel for the department.
- Oversees career development and training of personnel for the department; advises, directs, and consults with subordinate officers on matters of training, work assignments, scheduling, and discipline; develops teamwork and staff leadership skills.
- Establishes credibility and trust with the community through various community education and outreach programs; receives and acts upon inquiries or complaints from the public concerning police activities and services.
- Supervises internal personnel investigations; establishes policies, procedures and operations; sets priorities; and evaluates the department and its personnel.
- Supervises the preparation of periodic reports of crime and accident activity and police department activities; and analyzes data for trends.
- Works with the public and staff on difficult or unusual crime situations; and cooperates with other law enforcement agencies in crime prevention, detection, and investigative activities.
- Represents the Police Department and the Town in presentations to civic and volunteer organizations; and makes press releases and conducts media briefings.
- Performs sworn law enforcement duties when necessary.
- Performs related duties as required.
Requirements:
- Master’s degree in criminal justice or public administration preferred.
- Graduation from an accredited college or university with a degree in criminal justice or public administration, and considerable supervisory experience of a progressive responsible nature in law enforcement work; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Must be able to perform the basic life operational skills of climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, reaching, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, lifting, grasping, fingering, feeling, talking, hearing, and perform repetitive motions.
- Must be able to perform light work exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects.
- Must possess the visual acuity to perform extensive reading, administrative, and computer work.