Police Officer

Salary: $23.31-$25.11

Essential Functions:

1. Patrol the city in a radio-equipped vehicle to preserve law and order, including checkin businesses/residences, discovering and preventing the commission of crimes, enforcing municipal ordinances and federal and state laws.
2. Respond to calls involving automobile accidents, robberies, assaults, fights, domestic disturbances, other criminal activities, and civil complaints
3. Secure crime scenes, identify witnesses, conduct preliminary investigations, and Generally, law and order should be re-established at the scene.
4. Enforce traffic laws and ordinances by checking vehicle speed and issuing warnings and/or citations.
5. Prepare reports to document the facts of an incident and facilitate the apprehension, prosecution, and conviction of the perpetrator.
6. Appear in court to present evidence and sworn testimony.
7. Implement community-oriented policing practices, including enhancing the national curriculum for drug education for elementary students.
8. Arrest, question, and transport suspects and/or persons with outstanding arrest warrants to jail facilities.
9. Ensures arrested persons are processed (booked) into a detention facility in accordance with police department policy/procedures.
10. Answers citizen questions regarding Ozark’s Code/ordinances and state or Federal laws.
11. Operates police department vehicles (emergency and non-emergency operations).
12. Qualify twice annually with duty weapons and other tools/weapons within timeframes designated by the department.
13. Monitor and direct traffic and crowd control activities and intervene as necessary to preserve the peace.
14. Personally, I participate in investigating criminal law violations occurring within the city limits, obtaining evidence and compiling information regarding these crimes, preparing cases for filing charges, testifying in court, and performing related activities.
15. Work a uniformed shift or plain clothes assignment in performing security patrols, traffic control, investigation, and first aid at accidents, detection, investigation, and arrest of persons involved in crimes or misconduct.
16. Maintain normal availability by radio or telephone for consultation on major emergencies or precedent.
17. Carry out duties conforming to Federal, State, County, and City laws and ordinances.
18. Patrol City streets, parks, and commercial and residential areas to preserve the peace and enforce laws, control vehicular traffic, prevent or detect and investigate misconduct involving misdemeanors, felonies, and other law violations, and otherwise serve and protect.
19. Respond to emergency radio calls and investigate accidents, robberies, civil disturbances, domestic disputes, fights, drunkenness, missing children, prowlers, abuse of drugs, etc. Takes appropriate law enforcement action.
20. Interrogate suspects; question witnesses and drivers; preserve evidence; arrest violators; investigate and render assistance at scene of the vehicular accident; summon ambulances and other law enforcement vehicles; take measurements and draw diagrams of the scene; conduct follow-up investigations of crimes committed during assigned shift; 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;
21. Prepares cases for giving testimony and testifies in court proceedings.
22. Prepare various reports and records, including the officer’s daily roster, shift report, reports of investigation, field interrogation report, alcohol, influence reports, bad check form, vehicle impoundment form, traffic hazard report, etc.
23. They assist citizens with matters such as locked or stalled vehicles, crime prevention, drug resistance, traffic safety, etc.
24. Coordinates activities with supervisors or other city departments, exchanges information with officers in other law enforcement agencies, and obtains advice from the City Attorney, Court Administrator, and County Prosecutor’s Office regarding cases, laws, and/or case laws, policies, and procedures.
25. Required to perform shift work on days, evenings, and nights, as well as weekends and holidays.
26. Use excellent customer service skills and establish and maintain effective working relationships with other employees, officials, and all members of the general public.

Requirements:

• Must be Missouri P.O.S.T. Certified Police Officer.
• Must possess a valid Missouri operator’s license.
• Must be a high school graduate (or possess GED).
• Must successfully pass a background investigation, polygraph, psychological evaluation, physical, and drug screening as required.
• Physical Requirements: Requires high levels of sitting, standing, walking, running, squatting, lifting, bending, twisting, and kneeling; It requires manual dexterity sufficient to operate essential job-related equipment, and it must be sighted, hearing, and mobile to such a degree as not to compromise safety rules or the safety of self and others while working.
• Reaching both ground level and overhead is required for tasks such as retrieving files; lifting and carrying up to 10 pounds; pushing and pulls up to 25 lbs; holding and grips objects;
• Must possess the manual dexterity necessary to operate a computer keyboard;
• Must possess strength and skill needed to control combative persons;
• Must be able to maintain and demonstrate the ability to use a firearm and other Department issued weapons effectively.