Deputized Police Officer - Bureau of Operational Support

Crime Prevention and Investigation

• →Performs preventive patrol in assigned beat.
• →Continually observes for criminal activity, safety hazards, traffic violations, persons needing assistance, etc.
• →Becomes and remains familiar with patrol beats, geographic locations, known offenders, neighborhood routines, potential problem areas.
• →Conducts security inspections and surveys of buildings and businesses and makes recommendations regarding security, etc.
• →Makes presentations to groups and individuals on subjects related to the job's tasks and functions.
• →Handles complaints made by the public.
• →Observes, detects and investigates violations of laws ordinances and University policies and documents those actions for future use.
• →Conducts interviews and interrogations of victims, witnesses, suspects and offenders.
• →Conducts searches of person, vehicles, places and things.
• →Identifies and arrests offenders, including subduing resistive arrestees.
• →Seeks and serves arrest warrants, search warrants and other court documents.
• →Assists prosecutors in the preparation of cases for trial.
• →Appears and testifies in court, juvenile hearings, at deposition sessions and similar proceedings.
• →Enforces traffic and parking laws, including driving under the influence detection and apprehension.
• →Controls, regulates and directs vehicular and pedestrian traffic.
• →Investigates traffic accidents, including protecting the scene, aiding the injured, controlling traffic, clearing the scene, determining the cause, preparing reports and diagrams.
• →Assists disabled motorists.

Flexibility in schedule is required due to department staffing needs of 24x7x365 and holidays and weekends.

Motor Skills/Flexibility

The police officer position requires the employee to have and maintain the physical and mental ability needed to:

• React and move rapidly from a sedentary to active condition in response to environmental situations or events.
• Assume a variety of bodily positions and postures necessary to employ available “cover and concealment” during a deadly force encounter.
• Climb stairs and walk for extended periods of time.
• Operate a motor vehicle in a safe and prudent manner (possess a Missouri driver’s license with less than five chargeable points).
• Successfully complete certified bicycle operator training and operate a bicycle.
• Successfully complete training in a variety of motorized vehicles (T-3, etc.) and operator motorized vehicles.
• Operate and qualify with the Department-issued firearms, utilizing both hands, as well as each hand individually.
• Operate office equipment, such as telephones, audio/visual devices, computer or workstation keyboards, calculators and security locking systems.
• Operate all equipment necessary for performing routine daily assignments, apprehending and processing criminals and conducting both criminal and traffic-related investigations.
• Operate/utilize all Department vehicle mounted equipment whether in a mobile or stationary mode.
• Administer first aid, to include Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
• Perform required duties for extended periods of time while exposed to adverse conditions, to include time worked in excess of the normal daily duty shift and rotating shift work.
• Apprehend suspects to the extent of engaging in foot pursuits while summoning assistance and/or engaging in the necessary use of force.
• Adequately judge distances and estimate speed.
• Determine or estimate the point of origin of noise.
• Recognize/relate sound to situations based on frequencies or voice inflection within the normal range of human hearing.
• Employ the normal senses of touch and smell.
   

Communication Skills

The police officer position further requires the employee to have and maintain the physical and mental condition needed to:

• Reasonably identify and display basic non-verbal communications (body language).
• Effectively relate to or communicate with a variety of personality types during interpersonal contacts.
   

Emotional Psychological Stability

• The police officer position requires the employee to have the emotional and psychological stability required to:
• Cope with and perform day-to-day duties under the principles of discipline.
• Maintain self-control when receiving constructive criticism and/or being ridiculed.Continue performing all required tasks at a professional level when faced with unpleasant circumstances.

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