JOB TITLE: Police Officer
Job Department: Police
JOB DESCRIPTION
Under the direction of a supervisor the employee will be responsible for performing general law enforcement duties including, but not limited to; patrolling assigned geographic areas, responding to calls for a variety of complaints, crimes traffic accidents, or requests for assistance from other agencies; serving warrants of arrest; conducting preliminary investigations; completing reports; preparing for court testimony and testifying before grand jury, municipal, circuit, district and juvenile courts; transporting prisoners; maintaining positive relationships with citizens; maintaining issued equipment; maintaining education and certification requirements; investigating major crime scenes; performing crime lab activities; fingerprinting and photographing inmates; and other law enforcement activities as assigned.
JOB TASK ANALYSIS
A police officer must have the skills, knowledge, abilities and attitudes to:
1. Conduct foot patrol
2. Safely drive a vehicle
3. Conduct vehicle patrol
4. Conduct random patrol
5. Investigate suspicious activity
6. Investigate suspicious persons
7. Conduct business security checks
8. Conduct residential security checks
9. Conduct bar checks
10. Conduct convenience store checks
11. Assist motorists
12. Remain alert for stolen vehicles, missing persons, wanted persons, and escaped criminals
13. Check the welfare of fellow officers
14. Maintain good community relations
15. Identify and tow abandoned vehicles
16. Provide traffic direction and control
17. Enforce local traffic laws and parking ordinances
18. Issue traffic citations
19. issue verbal warnings
20. Enforce DUI Laws
21. Perform drivers license checks
22. Operate radar
23. Identity and report hazardous road conditions, signs and signals
24. Work traffic accidents
25. Serve misdemeanor, felony and search warrants
26. Initiate warrantless misdemeanor and Felony arrests
27. Conduct surveillance
28. Patrol known drug areas
29. Remain alert for suspicious persons and activities
30. Check abandoned structures
31. Respond to calls
32. Handle various complaints including but not limited to, criminal mischief, animal disturbances, assault, harassment, shoplifting, suspicious person, domestic disturbance, rape, murder, traffic accident, theft ot property, court disturbances, tights, disorderly conduct, public intoxication, burglary, robbery, controlled substances, violations, shootings, stabbings, suicides, and the attempt of the above offences
33. Respond to business alarm
34. Respond to residential alarm
35. Provide support for rescue squad, fire department, traffic department and other law enforcement and public safety agencies
36. Perform crowd control
37. Take missing person report
38. Mediate disputes
39. Break up fights
40. Use reasonable force when necessary
41. Search buildings
42. Check buildings for entry points
43. Secure doors and windows
44. Render first aid
45. Make misdemeanor and Felony arrests
46. Identifv, locate, and interview complainants, witnesses, victims, and suspects
47. Collect information and determine if criminal activity has occurred
48. Analyze given facts and determine proper application of state and local laws
49. Secure crime scenes
50. Conduct preliminary investigations of, but not limited to, burglaries, thefts, deaths, missing persons, criminal mischief, various other crimes and the attempts of these crimes
51. Identity and interview victims and witnesses
52. Locate protect and process evidence and contraband
53. Follow up on leads
54. Document offense, evidence, victims, suspects, witnesses, and personal observations
55. Properly complete incident/offense reports, miscellaneous incident reports, traffic accident reports, private property accident reports, vehicle reposts, found property reports, and other various reports when necessary
56. Investigate traffic accidents to include notifying wrecker, fire department, rescue squad, secure scene, locate witnesses, determine fought, diagram accident, gather drivers’ information, prepare accident report, and directing traffic at the scene
57. Prepare evidence for trial
58. Obtain misdemeanor, felony and search warrants
59. Present case to District Attorney
60. Review case history
61. Prepare for court testimony
62. Testify at all phases of the trial process including probation hearings, probable cause hearings, preliminary hearings, grand jury municipal court, circuit court, district court, and juvenile court
63. Obtain warrants after warrantless arrest
64. Notify witnesses
65. Assist with courtroom security
66. Schedule criminal court cases
67. Schedule traffic court cases
68. Swear to tickets and warrants before a magistrate
69. Transport injured or ill prisoners to hospital or doctor
70. Transport prisoners to judicial proceedings
71. Serve misdemeanor and felony warrants
72. Locate individuals named in warrants
73. Locate recipients and serve other legal documents
74. Assist crime victims in obtaining warrants
75. Make positive contact with citizens in assigned area
76. Maintain professional image and appearance
77. Display courtesy and friendly, helpful attitude
78. Speak to schools and civic groups
79. Perform routine maintenance on equipment
80. Replace worn or damaged equipment as necessary
81. Participate and maintain proficiency in firearms ana defensive tactics
82. Remain current on court decisions and laws
83. Respond to major crime scenes including crimes against persons and crimes against property
84. Take taped statements
85. Coordinate with crime lab
86. Maintain evidence in property room
87. Maintain appropriate and complete evidence records
88. Present case facts to magistrate and district attorney
89. Develop and maintain casefiles
90. Prepare cases for District Attorney
91. Review pawn shop records
92. Prepare written narratives
93. Prepare photo line-ups
94. Maintain contact with victims and witnesses in open investigations
95. Establish possible links between current cases and other crimes suspect may have committed
96. Keep supervisor advised of case status
97. Perform criminal investigations
98. Investigate criminal leads
99. Intake criminal intelligence
100. Conduct surveillance of criminal offenders
101. Arrest criminal offenders
102. Transport evidence to laboratory
103. Destroy condemned evidence and contraband
104. Maintain evidence vault
105. Complete and maintain condemnation reports and files
106. Investigate crimes by, and against, juveniles
107. Investigate crime scenes
108. Obtain court orders to picture and fingerprint juvenile offenders
109. Transport juveniles for court appearances and orders
110. Prepare cases for family court
111. Coordinate juvenile cases with probation officers
112. Maintain gang files
113. Identity suspected gang members
114. Track gang activity
115. Maintain suspected gang list
116. Identity and evaluate evidence
117. Collect evidence
118. Photograph evidence
119. Package and preserve evidence
120. Process evidence using various dusts, chemicals and alternate light sources
121. Prepare crime scene sketches and scale diagrams
122. Fingerprint and photograph all arrested persons
123. Verify identification of all arrested persons
124. Prepare and distribute fingerprint cards to other federal and state agencies
125. Prepare and distribute court disposition cards
126. Maintain photograph file
127. Maintain photo fingerprint file on all persons released from prison
128. Forward documents to DA
129. Coordinate pre-trial conference with the D.A., victim and witnesses
130. Ensure evidence is in court and ready for use
131. Inform suspect of rights
132. Operate computer to input and retrieve related information
133. Extradite prisoners
134. Ensure warrants are certified by appropriate authority in holding county
135. Complete trip tickers
136. Completes appropriate paperwork for extradition
137. Learn and apply related state, federal, criminal civil, juvenile, and traffic laws and ordinances
138. Learn geography of the jurisdiction including streets and businesses
139. Maintain good public relations
140. Learn and apply officer safety skills
141. Learn and apply departmental policies and procedures
142. Communicate with dispatchers, complainants, victim, suspects and citizens
143. Learn and utilize radio procedures and codes
144. Communicate with dispatchers, complainants, victims, suspects and citizens
145. Give directions
146. Take and follow orders
147. Effectively communicate with persons from a variety of social and economic classes
148. Effectively communicate through writing skills
149. Calculate simple and intermediate math problems
150. Read and comprehend street signs, reports, papers, laws, court rulings, tags, signs, names, and driver’s license
151. Operate a radar and other specialized police equipment
152. Apply good judgment and common sense
153. Shoot accurately and quality with issued Firearms
154. Apprehend resisting subjects
155. Control stress and act reasonably in stressful situations
156. Make sound decisions
157. Read tags, signs, names, driver’s license
158. Identify colors
159. Observe and recognize crimes
160. Identify and describe suspects
161. Distinguish sounds, voices, and noises
162. Understand radio communications
163. Speak well enough for persons to understand their directions
164. Defend themselves and others with a reasonable amount of force
165. Pull themselves and other from danger
166. Assist injured persons
167. Apprehend and detain suspects
168. Meet physical requirements mandated by the APOSTC
169. Meet academic requirements mandated by APOSTC
170. Work nonstandard hours and overtime
171. Respond to work on short notice
JOB REQUIREMENTS:
Must be 21 years of age, must possess a high school diploma or G.E.D. equivalent, must be of good character and have no convictions for felony offenses or other crimes of moral turpitude, must be willing to work nonstandard hours, and must have the ability to be certified by the Alabama Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission.
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