Salary: $57,636.80 – $92,393.60 Annually
Position Summary:
Actively support and uphold the stated mission and values of the City of Mesquite and the Police Department. Provide emergency aid, security, and protection of life and property for the citizens by patrolling business, rural, and residential areas, responding to requests for information and assistance, investigating criminal activity, subduing combative suspects, making arrests, working with people to solve problems associated with crime and ensuring proper enforcement of laws and regulations.
Essential Functions:
- Serve as a representative of the City of Mesquite, demonstrating a positive attitude and progressive actions through the display of professionalism, courtesy, and appropriate tact and discretion in all interactions with other employees and with the public.
- Patrol the community to aid in preventing crime and to enforce Federal, State, and City laws and regulations.
- Monitor traffic and maintains traffic safety.
- Detect and deter possible criminal activities.
- Conduct criminal investigations.
- Identify and arrest criminals.
- Respond to emergency calls; determine the nature of a call, investigates the circumstances, and takes any necessary and prudent action. May call for assistance or superior officers if necessary.
- Take command at scene of crime or accident; administers first aid and request medical service as necessary; takes statements and interviews victims and witnesses; examines situation; records vital information regarding causes and circumstances.
- Guard and supervise prisoners.
- Ensure that patrol activities are conducted in conformance with departmental rules and regulations.
- Conduct investigation assignments of suspected illegal activity or follow-up investigations of criminal cases and in the collection and preservation of evidence at the crime scene.
- Be dependable and meet acceptable attendance requirements at all times.
- Follow all applicable safety rules and regulations.
Requirements:
- Graduation from high school or GED.
- Associates degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in police science preferred.
- Speak and write Spanish fluently preferred.
- Must possess a Nevada POST Category I certificate or possession of a P.O.S.T. certificate from the list of Reciprocity States that Nevada P.O.S.T. has qualified for Category I Basic Lateral Entry certification.
- Must possess at the time of employment and continuously throughout employment a valid Nevada or “border state” driver’s license, as defined by NRS 483.
- Must be 21 years of age at time of appointment.
- Must be a United States citizen at the time of appointment.
- Applicants who currently possess certification from a state other than Nevada will be required to pass the Nevada P.O.S.T. equivalency examination within one (1) year of appointment.
- Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a medical examination (including drug screen) with an agency selected by the City, a thorough background investigation including completion of a background packet as directed by the Mesquite Police Department and any other appropriate measures deemed necessary.
