Police Officer

Salary: $65,059.49 Annually

Closing Date: 3/24/2025

Position Summary:

An ideal candidate possesses a high degree of personal integrity, values human dignity, demonstrates excellent communication skills and is a self-motivated, open-minded, service-oriented individual who is ready for a challenging yet rewarding career.

Essential Functions:

• Takes action and enforces city ordinances, state statutes, and federal laws through the appropriate application of arrest, search, and seizure.
• Provides public safety through multiple proactive approaches.
• Conducts preliminary investigations by protecting the crime scene, processing for evidence, and interviewing victims, witnesses, and suspects.
• Engages in positive, clear, and concise verbal communications with individuals when providing directions, collecting information, advising of rights and processes, or mediating disputes.
• Communicates in writing by preparing reports and records of activity with strong skills in organization, grammar, and spelling.
• Reviews/analyzes police-related reports and other relevant data in order to maintain a high degree of knowledge in criminal activity and/or other social concerns of interest to the police department.
• Makes necessary referrals and provides testimony when required.
• Provides first-responder emergency medical services through the use and application of first aid, CPR, and other trained medical skills.
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisors which require the knowledge, skills, and abilities of a police officer. These duties may include, but not limited to; traffic enforcement, training in various police tactics and procedures, and desk officer duties.

Requirements:

• Possess a high school diploma or equivalent.
• Possess an Associate Degree at the time of appointment from a post-secondary educational institution or a minimum of 60 college level credits from an accredited institution acknowledged by the United States Secretary of Education. https://ope.ed.gov/accreditation
• Ability to become certifiable as a Wisconsin law enforcement officer.
• Possess an acceptable personal and professional history of good character as determined through a complete background investigation.
• Meet the minimum requirements as established by the Law Enforcement Standards Board.
• Be a citizen of the United States at the time of appointment.
• Be at least 18 years of age at the time of appointment.
• Possess a valid Wisconsin Driver’s License or other such valid operator’s permit recognized by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation authorizing operation of a motor vehicle in Wisconsin.
• Must not have been convicted of any federal felony or any offense which if committed in Wisconsin could be punished as a felony unless the applicant has been granted an absolute and unconditional pardon.
• Must not have been convicted of any misdemeanor crime of domestic violence unless the applicant has been granted an absolute and unconditional pardon.
• Be able to speak, read, comprehend and write using the English language.