Position Overview: Performs intermediate protective service work enforcing laws, investigating criminal activity, ensuring safety of public, collecting evidence, testifying in court, maintaining files and records, preparing reports, and related work as apparent or assigned. This position is designated as essential during emergency or disaster situations.

Essential Job Functions

• Operate a patrol vehicle or walks on an assigned shift, to observe for violations of traffic laws, suspicious activities or persons, and disturbances of law and order.
• Enforces all State and local laws pertaining to criminal, civil and traffic offenses and ensures the health, safety, and welfare of the public.
• Interviews victims and witnesses to obtain additional necessary information regarding crimes, accidents, violations, etc.; helps investigate crimes and collect evidence; conducts searches; investigates traffic accidents, etc.
• Responds to radio dispatches and answers calls and complaints; directs traffic, issues traffic citations; serves warrants, summons, etc.

• Assists the public with services including education on crime prevention, provision of general information, general complaints, residential and commercial checks, funerals, etc.
• Makes arrests, completes arrest records and testifies in court; writes clear, concise reports to ensure legal procedures are followed, court testimony is complete and accurate, and evidence is collected and maintained with exact details.
• Conducts initial and follow-up investigations on assigned cases.
• Assists other law enforcement agencies when requested or assigned.
• Performs basic maintenance of all issued equipment.
• Participates in various in-service and special training programs.
• May be assigned specific collateral duties such as support services, special operations, narcotics, investigations, etc.
• May be required to work outside normal work hours in on-call and emergency situations.

• Performs work during emergency or disaster situations upon request and as assigned by management.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED and 3+ years law enforcement experience.
• Possession of Basic Law Enforcement Training certification.
• Possession of Intermediate certification.
• Possession of an appropriate driver's license valid in the State of North Carolina.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of police methods, practices, and procedures.
• Knowledge of the rules and regulations of the Police Department.
• Skill in using firearms and operating a motor vehicle.
• Ability to communicate ideas effectively in both oral and written formats.
• Ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions and to prepare clear reports.
• Ability to deal courteously, but firmly with the public.
• Ability to analyze situations and to adopt quick, effective, and reasonable courses of action with due regard to surrounding hazards and circumstances.
• Ability to perform work during emergency or disaster situations upon request and as assigned by management.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, medical personnel, court personnel and the public.

Physical Requirements

This work requires the regular exertion of up to 10 pounds of force and occasional exertion of up to 100 pounds of force; work regularly requires speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or feel, reaching with hands and arms and repetitive motions, frequently requires standing and sitting and occasionally requires walking, climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, smelling, pushing or pulling and lifting; work requires close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception, night vision and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, using of measuring devices, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities; work regularly requires exposure to outdoor weather conditions, frequently requires exposure to bloodborne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment and occasionally requires exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, exposure to the risk of electrical shock and working with explosives; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as assigned to meet the ongoing needs of the organization. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.