Police Officer-Lateral

Taylor, MI
City of Taylor

Salary: $52,020.00 – $74,607.00 Salary/year.

Essential Functions:

  • Affect an arrest, forcibly if necessary, using handcuffs and other restraints.
  • Climb over obstacles; climb through openings; jump down from elevated surfaces; jump over obstacles, ditches and streams; and crawl in confined areas to pursue, search, investigate and/or rescue.
  • Communicate effectively over law enforcement radio channels while initiating and responding to radio communications, often under adverse conditions.
  • Communicate verbally and effectively by listening to people and by giving information, directions and commands.
  • Conduct searches of buildings and large outdoor areas which may involve walking and/or standing for long periods of time and which requires the ability to distinguish color and perceive shapes.
  • Conduct visual and audio monitoring of jail for extended periods of time.
  • Enter and exit vehicles quickly to perform rescue operations, pursue a suspect or answer an emergency call.
  • Exercise independent judgment within legal guidelines, to determine when there is reasonable suspicion to detain, when probable cause exists to search and arrest and when force may be used and to what degree.
  • Gather information in criminal investigations by interviewing and obtaining the statements of victims, witnesses, suspects and confidential informants.
  • Load, unload, aim and fire handguns, shotguns and other agency fire arms from a variety of body positions in situations that justify the use of deadly force while maintaining emotional control under extreme stress.
  • Manage interpersonal conflicts to maintain order.
  • Operate an emergency vehicle during both the day and night; while exercising due care and caution in congested traffic and in unsafe road conditions and environmental conditions such as fog, smoke, rain, ice and snow.
  • Perform law enforcement functions while working rotating shifts and unanticipated overtime.
  • Perform tasks which require lifting, carrying, or dragging people or heavy objects while performing limited law enforcement functions.
  • Perform searches of persons which involve touching and feeling to detect potential weapons and contraband.
  • Pursue fleeing suspects on foot both day and night in unfamiliar terrain.
  • Prepare investigative and other reports, including sketches, using appropriate grammar, symbols and mathematical computations.
  • Read and comprehend rules, regulations, policies, procedures and the law for purposes of ensuring appropriate employee behavior/response and performing activities involving the public.
  • Subdue resisting subjects using hands and feet while employing defensive tactics maneuvers of approved nonlethal weapons.
  • Use body force to gain entrance through barriers to search, seize, investigate and/or rescue.
  • Perform other essential tasks as identified by the MCOLES Job-task analysis.

Requirements:

  • U.S. Citizen.
  • Age at least 21 years.
  • High School graduate or equivalent (G. E. D.)
  • Minimum of 60 college credit hours completed unless candidate is currently a certified police officer
  • Completion of Police Academy.
  • A valid driver’s license.
  • Good moral character – traffic and criminal records will be examined.
  • No Felony Convictions.
  • Be certified or certifiable as a police officer in the State of Michigan (i.e., a graduate of Michigan Commission on Law Enforcement Standards (MCOLES) certified academy); or certifiable within the first year of the eligibility list.
  • Must have a current passing test score (at least 70%) on record with Empco.
  • Physically and mentally able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to perform all the established duties and responsibilities related to the position.
  • Ability to pass a fingerprint, background check, and psychological exam and any other investigation deemed necessary by the Police and Fire Civil Service Commission.
  • Ability to successfully complete the basic training curriculum as determined by the Taylor police department.