Police Officer Recruit (non-POST certified)
Salary: $33 per hour
Essential Functions:
- Learn state and federal law and case law. Performing well on academic exams and quizzes
- Learn and perform skills related to arrest control, law enforcement driving, and firearms
- Pass the Colorado POST exam and being granted POST certification
- Determines on a daily basis, with the supervisor, activities which will be performed during shift.
- Patrols defined area within the city.
- Investigates unusual or suspicious individuals, events, or situations, and calls for assistance or guidance when necessary; detains and interviews suspicious individuals and makes arrests where appropriate.
- Meets with citizens as necessary, to answer questions, provide information, or to advise on crime prevention issues.
- Responds to various medical emergencies.
- Responds to calls from citizens for assistance, including alarms, reports of crimes or incidents, etc.
- Responds to calls from other officers requiring assistance in investigating or dealing with situations.
- Responds to criminal complaints and in-progress-calls which may require physical exertion in the form of running, jumping, or physically controlling a criminal suspect.
- Assists with crime scene investigations, including collecting evidence, fingerprints, or related activities.
Requirements:
- Must be at least twenty-one (21) years of age.
- Equivalent to an Associate of Arts degree or completion of 60 semester hours or 90 quarter hours from an accredited community college with major course work in criminal justice, police science, or a related field, is preferred.
- Possession of, or ability to obtain, an appropriate, valid Colorado driver’s license and a driving record satisfactory to obtain coverage by the City’s insurance carrier.
- Ability to obtain an appropriate, valid POST certificate from the State of Colorado.
- Possession of, or ability to obtain, CPR and First Aid certificates.