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Veterans Health Administration is Hiring a Lead Police Officer (Sergeant) Near Los Angeles, CA

Qualifications:

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 02/23/2024.

Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-08 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-07. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade.

Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.

GS-08
You may qualify based on your experience as described below:

• Specialized Experience: (In addition to meeting Time and Grade) You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-07 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to: Experience that provided knowledge of a body of basic laws and regulations, law enforcement operations, practices, and techniques and involved responsibility for maintaining order and protecting life and property. Creditable specialized experience may have been gained in work on a police force; through service as a military police officer; in work providing visitor protection and law enforcement in parks, forests, or other natural resource or recreational environments; in performing criminal investigative duties; or in other work that provided the required knowledge and skills. (must be in resume)

You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:

• Arrest
• Criminal Law
• Leadership
• Manages Human Resources
• Security
• Teaching Others

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

Physical Requirements: The work requires regular and recurring physical exertion such as long periods of standing, walking, driving, bending, stooping, reaching, crawling, and similar activities. Incumbent is required, on a regular and training basis, to use considerable and strenuous physical extension including frequent climbing of multiple flights of stairs (including an eleven (11) story tower building), lifting heavy objects over 50 lbs., crouching or crawling in restrictive areas during search or pursuit activities or defending oneself or others against physical attack. The work as instructor officer is usually done in an office setting. However, as a police officer patrolling may be on foot or by car. The police officer may be required to climb, lift, crawl, or be subjected to extended periods of walking

For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.

Responsibilities:

This is an open and continuous announcement. The announcement will remain open for the time period. We will be as many selections as needed. The certificates will be issued as the service needs or requests them.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Lead a team of Police Officers and other administrative staff.
• Direct day-to-day lead and non-lead policing assignments.
• Provide staff guidance on how to preserve what is needed for crime scenes.
• Lead and initiate investigative contact/stop.
• Assign, distributes, reviews, approves, and disapproves employees' assignments.
• Monitor the status/progress of the work and makes workload adjustments to ensure the workload is balanced.
• Provide information/feedback to the supervisor concerning promotions, reassignment, recognition of outstanding performance, and personnel needs.
• Resolve simple, informal complaints of employees and refers more complex complaints to the supervisor.
• Determine whether situations are criminal or civil and takes appropriate legal steps for each crime committed.
• Interview witnesses and other persons involved, determines whether facts warrant an arrest or lesser action.
• Keep abreast of policing best practices, the latest policing technology, and the latest criminal and/or policing laws, rules, regulations to provide advice and guidance as needed.
• Provide assistance to citizens in emergencies, including the protection of civil rights.
• Advise individuals of their Miranda, Weingarten, Garrity, etc. rights, protects the constitutional and civil rights of persons.
• Conduct investigations with a nexus to on organization, prisoner transport, patient search and recovery.
• Respond to calls for police assistance, irregularities, and unusual or suspicious circumstances.
• Detain witnesses and/or apprehends suspects, makes arrests and performs booking procedures.
• Seek, detect, seize, and/or protect evidence and witnesses at the scene of an incident.
• Intervene when necessary to deescalate situations and/or determines when and how much force must be applied.
• Provide emergency response coordination as needed.
• Make independent decisions and takes/coordinate immediate steps to preserve life and property.
• Intervene to deescalate active suicidal behavior and/or prevents suicides, when needed.
• Provide and/or coordinates staff training during shift briefing or designated training days.
• Ensure instruction on work sequence, procedures, methods, and deadlines are met.
• Provide on-the-job training in accordance with established procedures and practices.

Work Schedule: Will be required to work days/nights, weekends, and holidays. Will be required to work shift work to include 8-hour, 10-hour, and 12-hour shifts depending on the staffing needs and will rotate in a fair and equitable manner.
Telework: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Lead Police Officer (Sergeant)/PD99900-S and PD99900A
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required

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