Position Summary:
Under general supervision, to perform law enforcement and crime prevention work for the protection of life and property; to maintain order, enforce laws and ordinances, protect life and property within the city by performing a combination of duties: suppressant crime patrol, directing traffic, enforcing State and Local Traffic laws, investigating traffic accidents, preparing and serving warrants, processing both juveniles and adults, protecting and processing crime scenes; and to perform general and specific assignments from superior officers in accordance with established rules and procedures. Follow court procedures for municipal, county and district courts.
Essential Functions:
• Effectively deal with unpleasant situations, irate or disturbed individuals or victims, or gruesome crime scenes.
• Ability to think quickly, maintain self-control, and adapt quickly and effectively to stressful situations.
• Operate basic police equipment (including but not limited to cameras, recorders, radar, personal computer, and laptop).
• Take command of scenes and restore the peace.
Requirements:
- Must be 21 years or older at the time of employment;
- Must possess, or be able to obtain by time of hire, a valid driver’s license without record of suspension or revocation in the State of Texas within 30 days.
- Felony convictions and disqualifying criminal histories within the past seven years are not allowed.
- U.S. citizen.
- Must be able to read and write the English language.
- Must be of good moral character and of temperate and industrious habits.
- At minimum hold a Basic Peace Officers License from Texas Commission on Law Enforcement.
- High school diploma.
