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Police Officer

4 months ago

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Job DescriptionJob DescriptionDescription:

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION YOU MUST SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION AT:

Careers | Morgantown Police Department

www.morgantownpd.com/careers


Employment Status: Permanent- Full Time - Non-Exempt

Schedule: Currently working on a 4 day 12-hour shift with one 8-hour shift

Compensation:

Starting: $24.29/hour | Once certification is completed $26.16/hour

POSITION SUMMARY

The police officer works under the direct supervision of the Police Officers Supervisors and under the general direction of the Police Captain, Deputy Police Chief, and Chief of Police. The patrol officer participates in law enforcement efforts that include police patrol duties, crime prevention and investigation, emergency response, public assistance, and protection of life and property.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES - KNOWLEDGE – SKILLS - ABILITIES

Note: The list of essential duties is not intended to be all-inclusive. There may be other duties that are essential to particular assignments. Officers are expected to perform other duties as assigned.

· Work post, assignments, or shifts to support the 24 – hour per day, 7 – day a week operation. This includes nights, weekends, and holidays; and when the need arises, adjust their schedule to accomplish operational needs.

· Effectively performs duties on a routine basis where at any time the incumbent may need to respond to calls involving stressful, traumatic, dangerous, and unpredictable situations.

· Detect, deter, investigate, and stop criminal activity. This may include:

- Patrolling assigned area via vehicle, motorcycle, or on foot.

- Using verbal persuasion to encourage compliance.

- Perform crowd/riot control.

- Conducting surveillance.

- Interviewing victims, witnesses, and suspects.

- Identifying and collecting/seizing evidence, property, and contraband.

- Detaining, searching, arresting, and transporting potentially violent suspects.

- Applying sound judgement to respond with a level of force appropriate to the situation at hand.

- Potentially using lethal and non-lethal equipment.

· Protect, serve, and earn the trust and respect of the community. This includes:

- Maintaining a professional appearance and attitude at all times.

- Resolving disputes and disturbances.

- Working with the community and different community groups to help reduce crime.

· Make arrests, including the ability to physically handcuff a suspect.

· Monitor and enforce traffic activity. This includes:

- Observing traffic.

- Identifying, citing, arresting, and booking violators.

- Conducting traffic stops and roadside sobriety tests.

- Directing traffic.

- Securing, managing, and investigating traffic accident scenes and hazardous roadway conditions.

· Maintain job readiness, including attending periodic training, practicing with firearms and other service weapons.

· Other duties as assigned.

· Thorough knowledge of modern police methods, practices, and techniques.

· Thorough knowledge of applicable federal and state laws and department regulations.

· Knowledge of the functions and objectives of other state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies.

· Ability to deal with the public firmly and courteously under stressful conditions and to establish effective working relationships with the public and others contacted in the course of work.

· Ability to exercise command under the most difficult of conditions.

· Ability to analyze complex police problems.

· Ability to write and speak effectively.

· Position requires an above average ability to analyze data and develop departmental plans, including plans where a number of difficult, technical and/or administrative problems must be addressed.

WORKING CONDITIONS & PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Employees spend a large portion of the workday working in an office environment but as necessary be subject to walking, riding in or on a police vehicle, bending, crouching or stooping. Although typically assigned administrative duties, the employee is still a sworn police officer and may be required to perform activities requiring: fine eye-hand coordination; running, chasing, jumping and physically grappling with others; climbing ladders or scaffolding if necessary; lifting or carrying light objects weighing as much as twenty (20) pounds with occasional physical activities requiring handling of one-hundred (100) pounds or more (when grappling).

Potential for encountering such conditions are numerous and range from hazards associated with operating a motor vehicle to: lethal force direct at the employee by a variety of weapons; apprehending and handling armed suspects, being exposed to potentially fatal bodily fluids which transmit communicable disease (AIDS, Hepatitis, etc.) being subjected to stressful situations involving abusive behavior (verbal, mental and physical) when dealing with the public and dealing with mentally disturbed persons; unpredictable and sometimes violent behavior of alcohol and drug abusers; exposure to hazard materials at accident scenes.

This position has critical safety and security responsibilities and has been designated as a Testing Designated Position (TDP). As a condition of employment, the employee is subject to a random drug test that occurs without suspicion that a particular individual is using illegal drugs.

USE OF TECHNOLOGY & EQUIPMENT

Equipment and tools used on a regular basis include: Police vehicles, radios (Multi-channel mobile and portable), traffic radar, traffic signal controls, measuring devices, computers, cameras, noise meter, voice recorders, calculators, firearms, copier intoximeter, evidence processing equipment/material

CONTACT & SUPERVISION

Employee encounter contact with both individuals and organizations. Most frequent contacts are with: crime victims, criminal suspects, traffic law violators, witnesses, attorneys, judges and law abiding members of the community. Organizations encountered include other criminal justice agencies, interest groups, neighborhood associations and City Departments and units of government.

The City of Morgantown is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.



TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS POSITION YOU MUST APPLY AT:

Careers | Morgantown Police Department

www.morgantownpd.com/careers


Requirements:

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

Education:

· High School Diploma or GED

· Completion of Police Academy training.

Certification/License:

· Requires the ability to meet all requirements for law enforcement employment as defined in West Virginia State Law.

· Valid Driver’s License

Experience:

· One (1) to three (3) years of law enforcement experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Associate or bachelor’s in criminal justice.

· Military experience

· Completion of Police Academy