Public Safety Officer (PSO) – *CERTIFIED PROCESS ONLY* (67A)

Kalamazoo, MI
Kalamazoo Police Department

Salary: $59,426.64 – $92,907.36 Annually.

Essential Functions:

  • Responds to calls for service that require police, fire, or medically trained professionals.
  • Police: Patrols an assigned zone, responds to calls for service to include high risk situations and those involving mental health crisis, enforces traffic laws, conducts criminal investigations, and makes lawful arrests.
  • Fire: Responds to working fires, investigates fire alarms and smoke, provides vehicle extrication, conducts traffic control during vehicle crash investigations, and mitigates hazardous material incidents.
  • Medical: Responds to medical calls for service including heart attacks and trauma, assists advanced life support services in rendering medical care, renders CPR and other lifesaving medical interventions as needed, and monitors patient status during the course of care.
  • Collaborates with the community to solve problems and build trust.
  • Performs any other duty assigned by command or required by policy to further the organizational needs of KDPS.

Requirements:

  • Applicants must be 21 years old,
  • Possess Character Fitness (good moral character),
  • Have a valid driver’s license, be a U.S. citizen
  • Minimum of High School Diploma; Associate or higher preferred, or any combination of education, training, and experience which provides the essential knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the functions of the job.