Largo Police Department-Officer

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

All employees share components of leadership, management, technical, and team skills to assist in making the City of Largo the community of choice in Tampa Bay.

Leadership

• Demonstrates an understanding and reflection of the City’s mission, vision, and values and a commitment to achieve organizational goals aligned with the City’s strategic plan
• Champions a high performance work culture that encourages and embraces new ideas, develops individuals and welcomes and encourages diverse perspectives
• Articulates strategic and innovative thinking and provides clarity to deliver superior services
• Approaches the job with enthusiasm and curiosity to promote a solutions-oriented work culture

Management

• Effectively manages assignments and priorities to ensure the fulfillment of projects, tasks, and responsibilities
• Follows suggested procedures to assure the highest standards of risk management, employee safety and risk avoidance

Technical

• Responds to assignments received as a result of calls for service from the public and from superior officers
• Patrols assigned areas on foot, bicycle, motorcycle or in police vehicles; enforces traffic and criminal laws, parking
• regulations, and domestic violence injunctions; performs investigations, provides service, and generally provides for the
• safety of the public
• Responds to the scene of crimes, traffic accidents, and incidents; interviews suspects, prisoners, complainants, and
• witnesses in order to gather information; takes enforcement action, and files official reports
• Attends training for the city when necessary
• Maintains radio contact with department personnel via two-way radio
• Searches for and apprehends suspects involved in criminal activity
• Transports prisoners to the police building, detention facility, or treatment facility as required
• Testifies and presents evidence in court regarding policing duties
• Interacts with diverse groups of people within the department and the community in order to detect, prevent, and investigate
• suspected criminal activity; monitors businesses for compliance with laws and ordinances, and develops and maintains
• sources of information about criminal activities
• Takes proper safety precautions, anticipates unsafe circumstances, and acts accordingly to prevent accidents; responsible for
• safety of self, others, materials, and equipment
• Assists medical personnel on site; assists other agencies as required
• May be assigned special law enforcement related duties

Team Skills

• Supports honest and transparent decision-making
• Collaborates with all team members in a way that builds upon ideas and takes personal accountability and ownership of projects, roles, and assignments
• Openly exhibits a positive attitude, in word and action, and encourages others to do the same
• Performs related work as required.

EMERGENCY RESPONSE STATUS: As a condition of employment, City of Largo employees will be required to work as directed during an undeclared and/or a declared emergency. All employees are subject to recall around the clock for emergency response operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the normal work location, and may include duties other than those specified in the official job description.

Largo Police Department

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