School Resource Officer

Aubrey, TX
Aubrey Police Department

Salary: $71,676.80 Annually

Position Summary:

Perform a variety of law enforcement and crime prevention tasks, investigative work, special assignments, technical and administrative tasks in support of the Police Department.

Essential Functions:

  • Counsels students and mediates hostile situations.
  • Investigates offenses that occur on campus/school property.
  • Arrests for offenses violating laws and ordinances.
  • Questions suspects, witnesses and takes statements, serves warrants.
  • Gathers intelligence, forwards to criminal investigations for potential problems.
  • Conducts classroom instruction on laws and enforcement.
  • Consults with school counselors regarding problems with students; make referrals when professional counseling, treatment, legal assistance and aid is necessary or needed.
  • Counsels and advises students on responsibilities and procedures concerning criminal matters, abuse or child abuse.
  • Provides security for outside school activities or events when needed.
  • Meets with school personnel, students, and parents to discuss truancy problems.
  • Teaches classes; prepares class outline for instruction.
  • Responds to calls for service and complaints on campus/school property.
  • Conducts routine preventive patrol in designated residential and business areas, and initiates contacts with both business operators and residents to establish open communications, gather and dispense information, and establish the presence of law enforcement within the community.
  • Responds to calls for police service and takes action upon observing a circumstance or situation requiring police attention, i.e., responding to domestic disputes and disturbances, disputes among neighbors, juveniles, on-going criminal investigations.
  • Interviews witnesses, victims, suspects, arrested persons, and informants to obtain pertinent information concerning accidents/crimes.
  • Provides information to the public, victims, witnesses, and relatives concerning available services in the community.
  • Provides assistance and service to the public, i.e., changing tires, directing traffic, unlocking vehicles, jump-starting batteries.
  • Responds to burglary and fire alarms, and robbery in progress calls, and performs initial building searches
  • Performs CPR at scenes, and performs critical emergency care, such as stopping excessive bleeding, during the interim when emergency medical personnel are en route.
  • Conducts initial crime scene investigations, i.e., identifies and collects crucial evidence to be secured for processing, labels evidence with data for crime scene reconstruction, packages and stores evidence in a manner to protect chain of custody.
  • Enforces State and local traffic laws to ensure safety, investigates motor vehicle accidents, and protects lives and property at all motor vehicle accident scenes.
  • Identifies and issues municipal citations to violators of misdemeanor offenses.
  • Enforces laws and apprehends misdemeanor and felony violators and fugitives; arrests and transports persons found to have committed a criminal act.
  • Testifies in civil, traffic, and criminal court proceedings, ALR and Evidentiary hearings, and gives depositions.
  • Performs considerable report and record maintenance duties, i.e., initial investigations, crime reports, felony reports, statements, arrest reports, warrant forms, inventory and search, property receipts and dispositions, misdemeanors
  • Attends in-service training as directed to maintain current knowledge of changes in laws, new methods of enforcement, and other trends and developments in law enforcement.
  • Assists fire personnel at the scene as directed.

Requirements:

  • High School Diploma or equivalency.
  • Must be eligible for basic certification as a Peace Officer by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE)
  • Valid Texas Class C Driver’s License

Preferred Requirements:

  • Priority will be given to TCOLE certified applicants.