Police Officer
Position Summary:
Under direction, police officers enforce and promote awareness of University policy and procedures, local, state, and federal laws. Officers patrol and writes complex criminal and civil reports. They maintain a high degree of independence, initiative, and interaction with all factions of the campus community. This position will be assigned to evening or overnight depending on shift needs.
Essential Functions:
- Enforce University policies, municipal, state, and federal laws and statues
- Provide emergency response
- Enforce University policies, municipal, state, and federal laws and statues
- Protect the lives and property of citizens
- Assist in the investigation of cases
- Performs traffic and parking enforcement
- Patrol throughout University owned property
- Building checks on foot
- Assist in the investigation of ongoing cases and daily cases reported to UPD
- Assist in the protection and security at University events
- Provides information and assistance to the public
- Communicates legibly and clearly
- Ability to analyze stressful situations under minimal supervision
- Provide community policing models and perform public presentations
- All other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Education: High School Diploma
- Experience: Two years’ experience in a customer oriented field
- Skills: Ability to receive an maintain a Missouri Driver’s License and successfully complete a criminal background check, Attention to detail, Communication skills, including oral, written, and/or nonverbal, Human
- Relations/Interpersonal skills, Leadership skills: organization/meeting facilitation/project leadership, Maintain confidentiality.
Preferred Requirements:
- Education: 2 years college/university
- Certification/License: Missouri Peace Officer Certification or a Peace officers.
- Certification from a compact state
- Experience: 1 years’ experience as a Peace Officer
- Location: Live within 20 minutes response time of the main campus
- Skill: Knowledge of a University environment preferred, specifically Northwest Missouri State University campus.