Police Officer - Non-Certified

Posting number: 1104286

Department: Police

Job classification: Police Officer - Non-Certified

Posting type: Open

Categories: Public Safety

Summary

This position is considered a Safety-Sensitive position. Applicants who pass the interview process will be subject to drug and alcohol testing.

Examples of duties

Essential Functions:

• Must be able to communicate with others in spoken and written English to ensure the safe and efficient operations of the business.
• Patrols assigned zone and interacts with citizens.
• Responds to call for service.
• Prevents, detects, and investigates criminal activity.
• Enforces state and federal laws, city ordinances, and issues citations.
• Assists other officers in active investigations.
• Investigates crash and crime scenes, document calls, files reports, and prepares case files for judicial proceedings.
• Interviews victims, witnesses, and suspects.
• Issues search warrants and conducts searches of persons and property.
• Prepares court cases, communicates with district attorney’s office, and appears in court to testify.
• Inspects and maintains assigned equipment.
• Attends training sessions.
• Provides security at community events.
• Reads and understands technical instructions, procedures manuals and charts to solve practical problems, and methods and procedures for investigations and in drawing and layout work; composes routine reports and specialized reports, forms, and business letters, with proper format; speaks compound sentences using normal grammar and word form.
• Understands and validly enforces federal and state laws and local ordinances while exercising good judgment and reasonable discretion.
• Possess the temperament and good judgment to effectively and diplomatically deal with all members of the public, including those who are irate and unreasonable.
• Performs other work as assigned.
   

Physical and Sensory Demands:

• Possess the physical ability to run and the strength to apprehend law violators.
• Sits, stands, bends, stoops, reaches, pushes and pulls, frequently lifts objects and persons, climbs stairs, walks, and runs intermittently.

• Applicants must pass a physical agility test that consists of job-related bodily condition, muscular strength, agility, and physical coordination. The test consists of various elements such as running, pushing/pulling and carrying of weight, and climbing stairs.

• Operate law enforcement equipment including, but not limited to, police vehicles with all emergency equipment, mobile radios, hand-held radios, recorders, fingerprint equipment, cameras, video camera, copy machine, facsimile machine, personal computer and peripheral equipment, radar equipment, and both lethal and non-lethal weapons such as pistols, rifles, shotguns, ASP batons and OC spray.
• Involves routine and frequent exposure to toxic/caustic chemicals; explosives; violence; bloodborne pathogens.
• Involves being exposed to all types of weather conditions, some of which will be inclement.
• Work will involve exposure to dangerous conditions and situations and frequent exposure to violence.

Qualifications

Minimum Education and Experience Requirements:

• Requires High School diploma or GED equivalent.
• Must be a citizen of the United States of America or a permanent legal resident of the United States who is an honorably discharged veteran of the United States armed forces. As required by T.C.A.§38-8-105(d), an officer who is permanent legal resident as of the officer’s employment start date must apply for or obtain U.S. citizenship within six years of the officer’s employment start date; failure to obtain U.S. citizenship within six (6) years of the officer’s employment start date shall constitute grounds for termination of the officer’s employment.
• Must meet minimum visual requirement of 20/30 each eye corrected and have enough visual acuity to act to protect self and others in emergency situations uncorrected.
• Meet all lawful qualifications established by Tennessee law to be certified by the Tennessee Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission (“P.O.S.T.”), T.C.A. Section 38-8-106and regulations as same may be amended.