Police Officer – TCOLE Certified Only
Salary: $73,944 annually
Position Summary:
Police Officers are visible in the community where they serve. The primary purpose is to protect residents and property by striving to promote voluntary compliance to laws and ordinances through being visible, the use of enforcement, problem-solving, and public education.
Essential Functions:
- Duties for officers include patrols assigned geographical area to prevent crimes; enforces laws and ordinances; responds to calls via Dispatch
- Responds to emergency and non-emergency calls for service; takes necessary action
- Identifies problems and crime trends within geographically assigned area
- Questions witnesses, complainants, victims and suspects; takes statements and affidavits
- Completes reports; processes arrest reports and affidavits
- Conducts investigations of traffic accidents and criminal offenses; makes arrests
- Directs traffic, escorts traffic, operates traffic radar monitoring equipment, issues traffic citations
- Records facts to prepare reports that document incidents and activities
- Reviews facts of incidents to determine if criminal act or statute violations have occurred
- Appears/testifies in court to present evidence or act as witness in traffic and criminal cases
- Provides security at special events throughout the community, schools, and city functions
- Performs other law enforcement, investigative, technical and educational duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Hold a valid TCOLE Peace Officer certification
- Be at least twenty-one (21) years of age at the time of hire
- Be a graduate of an accredited high school or have an equivalency certificate (GED)
- Have a valid Texas driver’s license at the date of hire
- Be a citizen of the United States by birth or naturalization
- Be able to read, write, and speak the English language
- Be of good moral character
- Shall not be prohibited from carrying a firearm or possessing ammunition.