Police Officer II

REPORTS TO: Chief of Police

Job Overview: Performs comprehensive criminal investigation work; law enforcement and crime prevention work; to enforce state and local laws and ordinances.

Essential Duties:
• Functioning as a patrol officer, with an emphasis on fulfilling basic and complex investigative functions that are necessary in providing good customer service to the public / victims.
• Advanced evidence collection for cases of homicide, suicide, sexual assault, computer crimes, etc.
• Act as Evidence Custodian and is responsible for ensuring that all items entered into property and evidence for criminal cases, lost property and property held for safekeeping, are properly documented, maintained, and returned or destroyed in compliance with municipal ordinance, state law, rules of evidence, and statutes of limitation on evidence.
• Act as a Victim Liaison for victims that need further assistance after crimes have occurred and ensure the department is providing statutorily mandated victim’s services such as:
• Ensuring that the Department affords victims and witnesses the rights described in CRS §24-4.1-302.5.
• Facilitating the return of property to victims (CRS § 24-4.1-303).
• Ensure child victims and child witnesses are provided appropriate services commensurate with their age and needs (CRS § 24-4.1-304).
• Forward copies of crime reports requested by personnel at the local victim centers.
• Ensuring the Records Release and Security Policy regarding the release of reports is followed in all cases.
• Act as a Liaison with the District Attorney’s Office, being a point of contact as it relates to a multitude of investigative topics.
• Communicating regularly with neighboring local, state and federal judications being a liaison to coordinate cooperative investigative efforts.
• Attend regularly scheduled Detective Meetings to discuss patterns of criminal activity that are taking place throughout the county. These meetings provide a means for all the county law enforcement agencies, including the DA’s office, to compare notes on crimes and disseminate the information to all the agencies.
• Act as a liaison to regulated businesses, providing regulatory checks for compliance with local and state regulations.

Minimum Qualifications:
• High school graduate or GED.
• The candidate must be in good standing with Colorado POST.
• Minimum 3 years as a patrol officer.

Preferred Qualifications:
• Associate’s degree in criminal justice, public administration or related field
• Any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience, which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job, may be substituted for evaluation at the discretion of the police department.

Special Requirements:
• Eighty (80) hours every two (2) weeks minimum, shift work as assigned; which may require irregular working assignments, including nights, weekends, holidays, and rotating shifts as needed to fulfil 24 hour schedule of Patrol Officer requirements.
• Be available on call during your assigned work week to answer questions or respond to complex investigative scenes.
• Designated as an “essential employee,” incumbent may be required to remain on duty without advance notice due to emergencies

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Principles and practices of basic criminal investigations.
• United States and Colorado Constitutions, Federal, State and Town criminal and traffic laws and ordinances, and related court decisions.
• General social problems and cultural diversity of citizenry.
• Modern police methods, practices, and procedures.
• Knowledge of town geography, community service organizations, location of facilities and buildings, Town of Dillon Policies, Rules and Procedures, property and evidence.

Ability to:
• Perform a broad range of investigatory responsibilities and manage a case load with little supervision or oversite.
• Communicate and comprehend information in the English language by phone, police radio, or in person in a group or one-to-one setting.
• Evaluate a situation, make effective decisions under pressure, and take appropriate action.
• Produce written documents in the English language with clearly organized thoughts using proper sentence construction, punctuation and grammar.
• Use and properly care for firearms and related police emergency equipment.
• Work cooperatively, courteously, but firmly with all segments of the public.
• Observe and monitor people’s behavior to determine compliance with laws, regulations, and recall details.
• Apply first aid principles and practices.
• Maintain a level of physical fitness to meet job requirements.
• Maintain moral integrity.
• Work in a variety of weather conditions with exposure to the elements.
• Work safely without presenting a direct threat to self or others.
• Other duties may be required, assigned, and expected to commensurate with the administrative and operational needs of the department.

Performance Aptitudes:
Case Management: Tasks require the ability to schedule, coordinate, and manage various projects of varying degrees of difficulty, size and complexity, to include manging a case load of investigations for criminal prosecution.

Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials: Tasks require the ability to operate, maneuverer, and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials, commensurate with duties of the position.

Social and Interpersonal Communication Skills: Position requires professional, social and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to function in a major organizational unit requiring significant internal and external interaction.

Reasoning: Position requires functional reasoning skills enabling the analysis of major problems that necessitate complex planning for interrelated activities that can span one or several work units. Position requires situational reasoning skills allowing for the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and innovation in situations involving broader aspects of the organization.

Supplemental Information:
• 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 regularly works in outside weather conditions. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, or airborne particles.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand or sit; walk, use hands to finger, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Employee must be able to talk and hear.
• Must be able to fluently speak and understand the English language.
• The noise level in the field is moderate to loud.

Selection Guidelines:
• Formal application, rating of education and experience; oral interview and reference check; job related tests may be required.
• Applicants will undergo a testing process, which may include oral boards, written exams, and other various means of assessment.
• The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.
• The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.

The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change.

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt.