Tribal Police Officer

**GENERAL REQUIREMENTS**:
Under the direction of the Director of the Police Lieutenant. The Tribal Deputy will become a partner with the Bowler and Gresham Schools to provide an opportunity for a full-time professional deputy to better understand the actions and problems of the youths in our communities. to assist the Crime Prevention Officer with programs on pro-active approach to community policing. Based on the concept that police officers with private citizens working together in creative ways can help solve community problems as they relate to crime, fear of crime, and neighborhood decay. The Tribal Deputy shall be required to maintain the peace, welfare and safety of all within his or her jurisdiction. The Tribal Deputy shall function under the terms of the current Shawano County Stockbridge-Munsee Law Enforcement Agreement. Tribal supervision will be from the Police Lieutenant and may receive direction from Shawano County Sheriff Department.

**DUTIES**:
1. Diligently patrol the assigned areas.
- Aid in the prevention of crimes, or breach of peace and order, or any other offense.
- Must be alert for any suspicious activity and make documented observations as to the

activity, persons, place or things in a neat, accurate and chronological series.
- Enforce all laws and ordinances of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community, Shawano County and the State of Wisconsin and any contracted villages, currently Gresham.
- Maintain radio and/or telephone contact with Sheriff Department dispatch staff, other officers of the SMPD and the Chief of Police.
- Familiarization of all local roads, highways, streets, towns, villages, in the immediate area of operation.
- Properly document all evidence as required by the rules of evidence and to properly protect any crime scene or chain of evidence that may be used for prosecution of a crime at a later time.
- Accurately report in writing all required administrative data as required by the Police Lieutenant and Shawano County Sheriff Department (SCSD) if deputized.
- Must maintain an acceptable departmental attendance record.
- Must be reliable and prompt when reporting to work.
- Required to attend job related, in-service, meetings, and training to maintain professional and technical knowledge.
- Must adhere to tribal law and other applicable laws as well as tribal personnel policies and procedures.
- May be required to satisfactorily complete an exam or other testing requirement(s) to determine skill proficiency.
- Work with Bowler and Gresham schools to establish an opportunity for the students and faculty to get acquainted with law enforcement officers in an informal, nonauthoritarian-type setting.
- Work with the schools to provide educational assistance in the area of chemical abuse.
- To provide the school with a readily available deputy sheriff to give them a better understanding of the law. Not to be used as an arm of school discipline.
- To encourage student, faculty, and administrative input in establishing guidelines relative to handling of student law enforcement issues that may come up in their respective schools.
- To provide preventive patrol in the school areas in order to reduce loitering on school premises; drug and alcohol traffic; assaults; and other anti-social behavior.
- To assist persons or businesses, living or operating next to schools, that are having problems with students attending that particular school.
- To be available to the community as a public speaker, who is a professional deputy sheriff, with a personal understanding of the youths and the problems they encounter in the community.
- Work with Crime Prevention Officer in anticipating, recognizing and appraisal of crime risks. To initiate action to remove or reduce such risks.
- To assist Crime Prevention Officer with public educational programs in the areas of child safety; check fraud; elderly crime prevention; auto theft protection; etc.