Police Officer (Civil Service)

Salary: $66,437.49 – $103,066.29 Annually

Closing Date: 10/5/2026

Position Summary:

The Nationally Accredited Sioux City Police Department is seeking dedicated Police Officers driven to preserve law and order and emphasize our desire to work in partnership with the community through community policing, outreach efforts, and establishing strong partnerships with the citizens we serve.

Essential Functions:

• Patrols a designated area of the City on foot, bicycle, motorcycle, or in a patrol vehicle to preserve law and peace, to prevent and discover the commission of crime, and to enforce traffic and parking regulations.
• Checks buildings, parks, playgrounds, and neighborhoods for evidence of burglaries, vandalism, and suspicious activity.
• Answers calls and complaints involving accidents, thefts, public and domestic disturbances, intoxication, fires, and other misdemeanors and felonies, and provides a variety of other miscellaneous services.
• Evacuates people from dangerous areas.
• Drives a motor vehicle under emergency conditions.
• Controls, regulates, and directs vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
• Issues citations for traffic, non-traffic, and parking offenses.
• Conducts accident investigations providing first aid for the injured and requests emergency assistance and takes safeguards to prevent further accidents.
• Demonstrates the community policing philosophy of the department through participation and innovation.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of departmental technologies to include computers, software, mobile devices, recording devices, and equipment.
• Interviews principals and witnesses at accident scenes, secures scene, takes written statements, examines vehicles in roadway observing traffic control devices and obstructions to view, measures skid marks, takes street measurements, and prepares collision diagrams, collects physical evidence, clears accident scene of obstructions and wreckage and maintains traffic flow.
• Administers roadside sobriety tests using breathalyzers.
• Advises persons of constitutional rights and demonstrates an awareness of constitutional law and police policy.
• Identifies, apprehends offenders and seizes contraband.
• Handcuffs and transports prisoners.
• Subdues and arrests resisting or attacking individuals.
• Pursues suspects in motor vehicles and on foot.
• Demonstrate firearm proficiency and prepared to use deadly force when necessary.
• Collects and preserves evidence.
• Performs investigative work involving crimes, missing persons, child neglect, suspicious persons, or vehicles.
• Conducts surveillance of individuals or locations.
• Searches premises or property, recovers and inventories stolen property, and estimates its value.
• Locates witnesses to crime and interrogates suspects.
• Explains complaints to offenders, victims, and witnesses, and advises them of legal procedures.
• Conducts interviews, mediates family disputes, comforts emotionally upset persons, and refers to appropriate social service agencies.
• Makes public presentations.
• Testifies in and presents evidence in civil and criminal court cases and hearings.
• Prepares written, electronic and supplemental reports.
• Places children in protective custody.
• Determines whether incidents are criminal or civil matters.
• Serves subpoenas and search or arrest warrants.
• Represents department in meetings and acts as liaison with community groups.
• Expected to temporarily perform duties outside of normal classification in the event of a declared emergency. In the event that an employee is excused from work other than being sick, they will be required to report to work in a state of declared emergency.

Requirements:

1. Completion of High School or GED.
2. Must be 21 years or older by October 5th, 2026.
3. Must be a USA citizen
4. Candidates must pass a physical agility, written examination and oral interview before a conditional job offer. Upon conditional offer of employment, candidates must be able to pass a physical agility again, eye, back x-ray, physical, drug and alcohol screening, and psychological examinations. They must be of good moral character and never been convicted of a felony or have a misdemeanor conviction for domestic violence.
5. Must possess or be able to obtain a valid Driver’s License at the time of a conditional offer by the Police Chief.
6. Must be able to train, respond, and function as a member of a rapid response team; must maintain required State certifications; example: firearms, CPR, etc. Must be in good physical condition and able to train and perform all police functions, especially in emergency situations.
7. Must meet minimum qualifications as defined by Iowa Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) and the Sioux City Police Department Police Officer Applicant Elimination Factors.