Police Officer
Competency-based
ONET: 33-3051.00
4
Years
41
Skills
640h
Related instructions
Classroom instruction topics
- Basic Law Enforcement BLET
On-the-job training
- Apprehend criminal suspects
- Identify, pursue, and arrest suspects and perpetrators of criminal acts.
- Execute arrest warrants, locating and taking persons into custody.
- Respond to emergencies to provide assistance
- Provide for public safety by maintaining order, responding to emergencies, protecting people and property, enforcing motor vehicle and criminal laws, and promoting good community relations.
- Patrol specific area on foot, horseback, or motorized conveyance, responding promptly to calls for assistance.
- Maintain public order or security
- Provide for public safety by maintaining order, responding to emergencies, protecting people and property, enforcing motor vehicle and criminal laws, and promoting good community relations.
- Prepare investigation or incident reports
- Record facts to prepare reports that document incidents and activities
- Administer first aid
- Render aid to accident victims and other persons requiring first aid for physical injuries.
- Investigate accidents to determine causes
- Review facts of incidents to determine if criminal act or statute violations were involved.
- Investigate traffic accidents and other accidents to determine causes and to determine if a crime has been committed.
- Investigate illegal or suspicious activities
- Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.
- Monitor, note, report, and investigate suspicious persons and situations, safety hazards, and unusual or illegal activity in patrol area
- Communicate situation details to appropriate personnel
- Monitor, note, report, and investigate suspicious persons and situations, safety hazards, and unusual or illegal activity in patrol area.
- Notify patrol units to take violators into custody or to provide needed assistance or medical aid.
- Maintain surveillance of individuals or establishments
- Monitor, note, report, and investigate suspicious persons and situations, safety hazards, and unusual or illegal activity in patrol area.
- Testify at legal or legislative proceedings
- Testify in court to present evidence or act as witness in traffic and criminal cases.
- Maintain operational records
- Process prisoners and prepare and maintain records of prisoner bookings and prisoner status during booking and pre-trial process.
- Record information about suspects or criminals
- Process prisoners and prepare and maintain records of prisoner bookings and prisoner status during booking and pre-trial process.
- Monitor access or flow of people to prevent problems
- Monitor traffic to ensure motorists observe traffic regulations and exhibit safe driving procedures.
- Question individuals entering secured areas to determine their business, directing and rerouting individuals as necessary.
- Relay information about incidents or emergencies to personnel using phones or two-way radios
- Relay complaint and emergency-request information to appropriate agency dispatchers.
- Patrol properties to maintain safety
- Drive vehicles or patrol specific areas to detect law violators, issue citations, and make arrests.
- Patrol and guard courthouses, grand jury rooms, or assigned areas to provide security, enforce laws, maintain order, and arrest violators.
- Patrol specific area on foot, horseback, or motorized conveyance, responding promptly to calls for assistance.
- Determine operational procedures
- Evaluate complaint and emergency-request information to determine response requirements.
- Guard facilities
- Patrol and guard courthouses, grand jury rooms, or assigned areas to provide security, enforce laws, maintain order, and arrest violators.
- Interview people to gather information about criminal activities
- Photograph or draw diagrams of crime or accident scenes and interview principals and eyewitnesses.
- Record crime or accident scene evidence with video or still cameras
- Photograph or draw diagrams of crime or accident scenes and interview principals and eyewitnesses.
- Investigate legal issues
- Verify that the proper legal charges have been made against law offenders.
- Direct law enforcement activities
- Supervise law enforcement staff, such as jail staff, officers, and deputy sheriffs.
- Escort prisoners to courtrooms, prisons, or other facilities
- Transport or escort prisoners and defendants en route to courtrooms, prisons or jails, attorneys' offices, or medical facilities.
- Direct vehicle traffic
- Direct traffic flow and reroute traffic in case of emergencies.
- Interview people to obtain information about actions or status of individuals
- Question individuals entering secured areas to determine their business, directing and rerouting individuals as necessary.
- Detain suspects or witnesses
- Place people in protective custody.
- Inform the public about policies, services or procedures
- Inform citizens of community services and recommend options to facilitate longer-term problem resolution.
- Recommend improvements to increase safety or reduce risks
- Inform citizens of community services and recommend options to facilitate longer-term problem resolution.
- Serve court ordered documents
- Serve statements of claims, subpoenas, summonses, jury summonses, orders to pay alimony, and other court orders.
- Confiscate prohibited or dangerous items
- Locate and confiscate real or personal property, as directed by court order.
- Locate suspicious objects or vehicles
- Locate and confiscate real or personal property, as directed by court order.
- Assist motorists or pedestrians
- Provide road information to assist motorists.
- Communicate health and wellness information to the public
- Conduct community programs for all ages concerning topics such as drugs and violence.
- Present social services program information to the public
- Conduct community programs for all ages concerning topics such as drugs and violence.
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