Salary: $61,577.32 – $81,085.58
Position Summary:
Police sergeants perform a broad range of law enforcement duties such as conducting investigations, enforcing laws, preventing crime, responding to emergency and non-emergency calls for service, performing high visibility patrols, making arrests, and rendering assistance to members of the public. Police sergeants are responsible for overseeing designated patrol squads, units, or divisions. This position involves significant decision making and independent judgement in conformity with agency objectives, standards, policies, procedures, and the law.
Essential Functions:
• Patrols assigned geographical areas by car, motorcycle, bike, or on foot.
• Utilizes two-way radios and performs queries of computer databases.
• Responds to emergency and non-emergency calls for service.
• Enforces traffic laws, impounds vehicles, and investigates traffic collisions.
• Operates speed detection equipment, computers, and preliminary breath test devices.
• Responds to roadway hazards, directs motorist, and restores traffic flow.
• Apprehends, transports, processes, and files charges against offenders.
• Prepares organized case files and testifies in judicial proceedings.
• Formulates solutions and takes action to address community concerns.
• Interviews and interrogates witnesses, victims, and suspects.
• Documents facts, statements, observations, actions, and dispositions.
• Participates in youth programs and public engagement events.
• Renders first aid and performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
• Safeguards crime scenes; identifies, collects, packages, preserves, and labels evidence.
• Maintains security of closed businesses; searches commercial, residential, and other structures.
• Remains alert for suspicious persons, vehicles, conditions, potential hazards, and illegal activities.
• Conducts preliminary investigations using tact and high degree of proficiency and professionalism.
• Coaches, mentors, and supervises subordinate employees, reviews performance and quality of work output.
• Completes reports and forms that are legible, accurate, factual, clear, concise, and in the prescribed format.
• Willingly performs other duties as assigned by superiors.
Requirements:
- High School Diploma, twenty-one years of age or older, basic computer and internet literacy, excellent written and verbal communication skills, keen observation skills, good moral character, strong passion for public service, acceptable personal grooming and hygiene habits, dedication to community-oriented policing, willingness to work rotating shifts and adjust duty schedule with little to no advance notice, four years of sworn law enforcement work, and at least two years of supervisory experience at the rank of corporal or above.
- Associates degree, six years of sworn law enforcement experience at the rank of corporal or above, and completion of first line supervisor training.
- Must possess a valid drivers license and satisfy the requirements set forth by the
- Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission. Must maintain a valid law enforcement certification.
