Airport Police and Fire Officer II (24 hr)

Posting number: AP POL FIRE OFFCR 2

Department: Airport

Division: AP Administration

Job classification: Airport Police & Fire Officer II (24 hr schedule)

Posting type: Open & Promotional

Categories: Building & Safety, Law Enforcement, Airports, Fire & EMS, EMS

Summary

Examples of duties

• Answers calls and complaints received by radio, telephone, or in person involving emergency, disorder and crime.
• Interviews persons with complaints or inquiries, takes statements and tends to proper disposition of the information or directs them to proper authorities.
• Conducts preliminary investigations, gathers evidence and locates witnesses.
• Makes arrests and/or transports prisoners for booking and incarceration.
• Appears in court to present evidence and/or testify as required.
• Enforces traffic and parking ordinances.
• Enforces or causes to be enforced Federal Aviation Regulations relevant to airport operations and security.
• Responds to public disturbances or nuisance.
• Protects against unauthorized access to restricted security areas.
• Responds to commercial passenger screening area as required.
• Responds to aircraft and other related fire emergencies.
• Provides information and assistance in a courteous manner to airport tenants, operators and the public as needed.
• Advises appropriate authorities through established procedures of problems related to public safety and security of the airport(s).
• Inspects, records and reports through established procedures any discrepancies observed to airport facilities and property; including but not limited to runways, taxiways, ramps, lights, signs, parking lots, roadways and buildings.
• Operates computer controlled access and television systems.
• Performs radio and telephone dispatch duties.
• Receives and processes applications for airport security identification and access media.
• The examples of work performed are not intended to be all-inclusive.
• The City of Wichita and Airport Authority reserve the right to assign additional duties as needed.

Qualifications

• Must have successfully completed course work and examinations for Firefighter I and Firefighter II, or complete within not less than 12 calendar months of employment or promotion in accordance with NFPA 1001 Standard for Fire Fighter Professional Qualifications, 2013 editions or as may be amended.
• Must have successfully completed course work and examinations for Emergency Medical Responder (EMR), or complete within not less than 24 calendar months of employment or promotion.
• Ability to accurately and effectively discharge a rifle, shotgun, and handgun with both left and right hands, and maintain annual firearms proficiency certification as required by the Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center.
• Ability to successfully complete recertification law enforcement training programs.
• Ability to successfully complete recertification and advanced aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) and structural fire training programs.
• Ability to successfully complete initial, and recertification medical training programs; not less than First Responder certification.
• Ability to subdue a violent and/or uncooperative person by methods requiring physical force.
• Ability to run distances up to 1 1/2 miles over uneven terrain.
• Ability to distinguish colors accurately during day or night conditions.
• Visual acuity that can be corrected to at least 20/20 in both eyes, and uncorrected acuity at a level not to exceed 20/100 in either eye.
• Ability to hear with or without hearing enhancement devices at levels defined as follows: Pure-tone thresholds not worse than 20 db HL at 500Hz, 1000Hz, 2000Hz, and 3000Hz.
• Ability to