Police Officer
Essential Functions:
- Respond to calls for service; handles citizen complaints, problem solving, making custodial arrests, and issuing summons;
- Knowledge of state law and local ordinance;
- Ability to drive and operate emergency vehicles;
- Ability to handle volatile persons, defend self and others, and testify;
- Investigate reports of crime, interview victims, suspects and others involved, collect evidence, package cases for prosecution;
- Complete paperwork, reports and case management, and training;
- Patrol city streets, neighborhoods, businesses, parks, and conducts traffic enforcement and issue citations;
- Knowledge of city geography.
Requirements:
- The successful candidate will have an Associate’s Degree.
- Have completed law enforcement skills program, and be licensed, or eligible to be POST licensed by early 2024.