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Kansas Employer University Police Officer in Wichita, Kansas

This job was posted by https://www.kansasworks.com : For more information, please see: https://www.kansasworks.com/jobs/12739130

Job Responsibilities:

Provides public safety services including but not limited to; emergency response, asset protection, traffic control, community interaction, parking and/or traffic enforcement, preliminary field investigations, victim services, and interviewing victims, witnesses and/or suspects.

Essential Functions:

  • Patrols University grounds, buildings and streets by foot, bicycle, and vehicle to maintain public safety, prevent crime, enforce laws and traffic infractions, apprehend criminal offenders, and prevent and respond to violations of laws, policies and regulations.
  • Utilizes and employs the appropriate law enforcement response in all situations. Interacts with community members and others citizens in an appropriate manner to further efforts to provide public safety, prevent crime and ensure compliance with laws, policies and regulations.
  • Determines when to initiate criminal investigations and when to initiate lawful arrests. Prepares appropriate written documentation of investigative efforts.
  • Locks and unlocks interior and exterior doors on campus buildings as directed in order to provide security and asset protection.
  • Provides special customer service as requested which may include but are not limited to, jump starts, unlocks, limited assistance with disabled autos, and safety escorts for people on campus.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

  • Ability to successfully complete WSUPDField Training Program
  • Ability to acquire and maintain KS CPOSTCertification
  • Ability to successfully complete KS CPOSTTraining (as required)
  • Ability to acquire knowledge of modern police methods and procedures.
  • Ability to acquire knowledge of departmental rules and regulations and pertinent ordinances and laws.
  • Ability to acquire knowledge of physical location assigned, including buildings, streets, and areas where more than police attention may be required.
  • Ability to acquire knowledge of first aid and skill in its application.
  • Ability to acquire knowledge of the rights of the criminally accused.
  • Ability to acquire knowledge of criminal investigation techniques.
  • Ability to acquire knowledge of the laws governing search and seizure.
  • Ability to acquire knowledge of state and federal criminal law.
  • Ability to acquire knowledge of interviewing and interrogation techniques.
  • Ability to acquire knowledge of surveillance techniques.
  • Ability to acquire knowledge of the harmful effects and dangers of drug usage.
  • Ability to acquire knowledge of state and local motor vehicle laws.
  • Ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions, prepare clear and comprehensive reports, and express ones self orally or in writing.
  • Ability to enforce laws, ordinances, and regulations with firmness, tact, and impartiality.
  • Ability to deal firmly and tactfully with WSUfaculty, staff, students and visitors.
  • Ability to analyze situations promptly and accurately, and to quickly adopt prompt, effective, and reasonable courses of action with due regard to surrounding hazards and circumstances.
  • Ability to use and care for police equipment, including firearms and motor vehicles.
  • Ability to qualify with duty weapon(s) on a regular basis.
  • Ability to observe situations analytically, impartially, and objectively, and to record pertinent information accurately and completely.
  • Ability to work independently with or without detailed supervision.
  • Ability to interview and/or interrogate others to elicit pertinent information.
  • Ability to evaluate the relative importance of all information received.
  • Ability t remain calm under stressful conditions.
  • Ability to work long hours under difficult and arduous conditions.
  • Ability to safely operate a motor vehicle.

Applicants may be temporarily disqualified for the following:

Must not have used or possessed any felony level drug or controlled substance, i.e. cocaine, heroin, opium, methamphetamine, etc. within the past 10 years of date of application.

Convictions, diversions, expungements, or involvement in any misdemeanor crimes of violence, or use of physical force or threats within the past five years of date of application.

Convictions, diversions, expungements or involvement in misdemeanor crimes within the past three years of date of application.

Convictions, diversions, expungements or involvement in any misdemeanor crimes involving morals, or weapons charges within the past five years of date of application.

Must not have used, bought, or possessed marijuana,LSD, hashish, mushrooms, K 2, peyote, ecstasy, etc., within the past three years of date of\ application.

Must not have used, boug

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