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Are you interested in joining an honorable and noble profession? How would you like to make a positive difference in the lives of those who live, work, attend school or visit our community? If you answered yes, we encourage you to consider a career with our agency. The Deer Park Police Department is actively recruiting men and women for the position of Police Cadet/Police Officer.
Depending on qualifications the bi-weekly salary for those selected to join our ranks ranges from $2550.40 (Cadets) - $2843.20 (Lateral Entry licensed officers).
GENERAL PURPOSE
Performs police patrol, investigation, traffic regulation, community services and related law enforcement activities.
SUPERVISION RECEIVED
Works under the general supervision of the Community Services Lieutenant and the direct supervision of a Community Services Sergeant.
SUPERVISION EXERCISED
None
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide the highest quality of police service in order to improve the quality of life for the Citizens of Deer Park, with the highest regard for these values. Accountable to the highest standards of professionalism and ethics. Develop relationships with the community and together identifying and resolving issues affecting public safety. Committed to hard work and purposeful activity. Dedicated to Professional Law Enforcement.
The patrol officer is charged with keeping the peace and enforcing the law, while conducting themselves in a professional manner and the highest principles of police service. Patrol officers are sworn to safeguard the lives and property of all persons and act within their bounds of authority and the realm of legality.
Patrol officers are assigned an Interactive Patrol Beat and are responsible for problem solving and pro-active policing of that geographic area. Patrol officers problem solve by developing meaningful information exchanges within the department and with neighborhood residents. Patrol officers are expected to create an action plan to address neighborhood needs and expectations by incorporating data sources, developing short-term and long-term strategies, and evaluating implementing them.
OTHER DUTIES
Uniform, vehicles and equipment accountability and maintenance.
Make periodic checks of their Interactive Patrol Beat's businesses and residences to report and take action on deficiencies and problems. Investigate all suspicious incidents and activities.
Answer calls for service from telecommunications dispatcher by resolving safety and promptly to calls such as accident investigations, criminal investigations, and emergency medical service-first responder calls. These calls may require the collection and preservation of pertinent evidence at any crime or accident scene.
Respond to on view incidents that require police action as if assigned the call by dispatch.
Promptly document and submit required reports as a part of any investigation or assignment.
Utilize non-assigned time for self initiated field activities, traffic prevention patrol, or beat familiarization and problem solving.
Execute warrants, issue warnings, summons, and citations and testify in court.
Remain alert of conditions affecting safety and use of roadways.
Deter and detect potential law violators and take appropriate enforcement action.
Take necessary follow-up action regarding investigations, complaints of traffic, and complete the reports.
Patrol Officers are assigned to the Community Services Division and are assigned to 8-hour patrol shifts (1st Shift 6:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.; 2nd Shift 2:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. or 3rd Shift 10:00 p.m. – 6:00 a.m.) and days off are based on departmental seniority. Officer's arrival and departure times for their shift assignments are staggered so that continuous, twenty-four hour coverage is provided.
Perform duties assigned to them by the Community Services Lieutenant and/or Sergeant.
PERIPHERAL DUTIES
Special Assignments include: Patrol; Detective; Warrant Officer; Crime Scene Investigator/Crime Lab Officer; School Resource Officer; Crime Prevention Officer; Recruiting Officer; SWAT; Hostage Negotiations; Honor Guard; Drug Recognition Expert; Accident Re-constructionist.
DESIRED MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Necessary Knowledge Skills and Abilities:
Some knowledge of modern law enforcement principles, procedures, techniques, and equipment; Some skill in operating the tools and equipment listed below; Ability to learn the applicable laws, ordinances, and department rules and regulations; Ability to perform work requiring good physical condition; Ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing; Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with peers, supervisors and subordinates; Ability to exercise sound judgment in evaluating situations and in making decisions; Ability to follow verbal and written instructions; Ability to meet the special requirements listed below; Ability to learn the City's geography.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
ALL Candidates will have to complete a Physical Agility Test which will include:
* 1.5 Mile Run in 17 Minutes
* 29 Sit-ups in 1 Minute
* 22 Push-ups in 1 Minute ("Modified" form acceptable for females)
* 300 Meter Run in 71 Seconds
TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
Police Car, police radio, radar gun, handgun and other weapons as required asp baton, hand cuffs, PC and laptop computers and there peripheral equipment.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch; or crawl; and taste or smell.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works in outside weather conditions.
The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts; in high precarious places; and with explosives and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, extreme heat, and vibration. The work environment is usually moderate.
Other
Public Administration
$59k-78k (estimate)
11/23/2023
06/30/2024
deerpark-oh.gov
CINCINNATI, OH
50 - 100
1912
DAVID COLLINS
<$5M
Public Administration
Chief Financial Officer of City. Oversees Accounting, Budgeting, Payroll, Internal & External Reporting, and Accounts Payable & Receivable.
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