Police Officer

• Performs preventive patrol in assigned beat;
• Continually observes for criminal activity, safety hazards, traffic violations, persons needing assistance, etc;
• Becomes and remains familiar with patrol beats, geographic locations, known offenders, neighborhood routines, potential problem areas;
• Conducts security inspections and surveys of buildings and businesses and makes recommendations regarding security, etc;
• Makes presentations to groups and individuals on subjects related to the job’s tasks and functions;
• Handles complaints made by the public;
• Observes for, detects and investigates violations of laws and ordinances and documents those actions for future use;
• Conducts interviews and interrogations of victims, witnesses, suspects and offenders;
• Conducts searches of person, vehicles, places and things;
• Identifies and arrests offenders, including subduing resistive arrestees;
• Seeks and serves arrest warrants, search warrants and other court documents;
• Assists prosecutors in the preparation of cases for trial;
• Appears and testifies in court, juvenile hearings, at deposition sessions and similar proceedings;
• Enforces traffic and parking laws, including driving under the influence detection and apprehension;
• Controls, regulates and directs vehicular and pedestrian traffic;
• Investigates traffic accidents, including protecting the scene, aiding the injured, controlling traffic, clearing the scene, determining the cause, preparing reports and diagrams;
• Assists disabled motorists;
• Deals with children of all ages in a variety of situations, such as delinquents, minors requiring authoritative intervention, neglected, abused, runaways, lost, found, victims of crimes, public relations and instructional functions and informants.

• Deals with domestic disputes and other interpersonal and business contacts;
• Recognizes and corrects or reports public hazards and inconveniences, as gas leaks, traffic signals out of service, traffic obstructions and other safety hazards;
• Responds to specific requests for ambulance/fire service and assists as needed;
• Administers first aid, including CPR, to sick and injured persons;
• Investigates incidents involving dead persons resulting from criminal, accidental, suicidal and natural causes, including determination of the circumstances and handling/removal of the body and dealing with the family, relatives, friends, witnesses, etc;
• Investigates reports of lost and found property;
• Investigates reports of missing and found persons;
• Investigates animal complaints, including the humane disposition of severely injured animals;
• Directs and/or supervises civilian employees and the public at the scenes of crimes, accidents, disasters, assemblies, etc; 
• Generally assists persons in distress.

• May perform desk duties, including telecommunications (telephone, computer terminal, radio), assisting persons at the counters at the station, processing reports;
• Conducts background investigations for prospective police applicants;
• Attends training as assigned;
• Develops and maintains required skills and licenses/permits/certifications associated with area of special instruction, expertise, etc. (Firearms qualification, evidence technician, juvenile law, criminal investigations);
• Trains new officers, cadets and community service aids in areas of special skills or expertise;
• Prepares clear, accurate and complete reports on any and all activities engaged in;
• Work effectively as a member of a team;
• Inspire trust;
• Guard confidentiality of information.

• Graduation from High School or completion of a GED is required.

• Possession of a valid Pennsylvania State Driver’s License is required.

• React and move rapidly from a sedentary to active condition in response to environmental situations or events;
• Assume a variety of bodily position and postures necessary to employ available “cover and concealment” during a deadly force encounter;
• Respond to a physical attack and possess the ability to escape the attacker and/or summon aid;
• Climb by ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms;
• Balance by maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouch on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces;
• Lift by raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position;
• Operate a motor vehicle in a safe and prudent manner (possess and maintain a valid Pennsylvania driver’s license);
• Operate and qualify with the Department-issued firearms, utilizing both hands, as well as each hand individually;
• Operate office equipment, such as telephones, audio/visual devices, computer and workstation keyboards;
• Operate all equipment necessary for performing routine daily assignments, apprehending and processing criminals and conducting both criminal and traffic-related investigations;
• Operate/utilize all Department interior vehicle equipment such as computer, camera, microphone, radio, lights, siren, speed timing device;
• Administer first aid, to include Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR);
• Perform required duties for extended periods of time while exposed to adverse conditions, to include time worked in excess of the normal daily duty shift and rotating shift work;
• Apprehend suspects to the extent of engaging in foot pursuits while summoning assistance and/or engaging in the necessary use of force;
• Discern colors as they are applied in traffic safety situations (electric signals, signing, hazardous materials placards, vehicle and clothing descriptions, etc.);
• Adequately judge distances and estimate speed;
• See, read and recognize obstacles in a variety of normal and/or emergency environments. Have vision that is correctable to “Department vision” standards;
• Determine or estimate the point of origin of noise;
• Receive detailed information through oral communication;
• Recognize/relate sound to situations based on frequencies or voice inflection within the normal range of human hearing;
• Employ the normal senses of touch and smell

• Speak, read and write the English language in a clear, understandable fashion;
• Reasonably identify and display basic non-verbal communications (body language);
• Effectively relate to or communicate with a variety of personality types during interpersonal contacts;
• Express or exchange detailed or important spoken instructions by means of spoken word, conveying to others accurately, loudly or quickly.

• Comprehend and implement verbal and written instructions;
• Apply reasoning skills when confronted with circumstances requiring discretionary decisions;
• Establish priorities and construct subsequent plans when investigating incidents or events;
• Formulate and carry out an appropriate course of action for a given situation for which no specific rule or procedure has been established;
• Apply theory based instruction or training to actual incidents/situations;
• Handle situations firmly, courteously, tactfully and impartially;
• Retain and retrieve information furnished in the form of memos, emails, verbal reports, training points, etc;
• Be capable of receiving and giving instructions.

• Cope with and perform day-to-day duties under the principles of discipline;
• Maintain self-control when receiving constructive criticism and/or being ridiculed;
• Continue performing all required tasks at a professional level when faced with unpleasant circumstances;
• Perform police duties without dependence on alcohol/narcotics;
• Deal effectively with the morbid, the macabre, the repugnant, the abnormal, the morose, the psychotic, the neurotic and the otherwise unpleasant or unusual facets or results of human behavior.

Salary : $63,341 - $90,488