Entry Level Police Officer

Essential Duties

• Patrols assigned area primarily by car, occasionally on foot, bicycle, and motorcycle.
• Responds to a wide variety of calls and complaints involving automobile accidents, burglaries, theft, robberies, domestic disturbances, assaults, and other misdemeanors and felonies.
• Conducts preliminary and follow-up investigations, contacts and interviews witnesses and victims of a crime, photographs crime scenes, dusts for latent fingerprints, collects evidence, and preserves the chain of evidence.
• Prepares criminal investigation reports and testifies in court.
• Performs traffic and parking enforcement functions, observes traffic movement, operates radar speed detection units, directs traffic, and issues traffic citations.
• Conducts accident investigations to determine the cause of the accident (driver error or mechanical failure).
• Apprehends violators of City laws and ordinances by arresting suspects, following a complete booking procedure, and using physical force up to and including the use of a firearm.
• Gives talks, maintains a high degree of visibility, and identifies unusual or abnormal activities to prevent crime.
• Performs various other duties as assigned, including transporting prisoners to county jails, serving misdemeanor and felony warrants for arrest, crime scene and accident investigation follow-up, parking enforcement, providing information to citizens, and serving special assignments.

Peripheral Duties

• Covers crime scene and accident investigation follow-up.
• Engages in parking enforcement, giving talks, providing information to citizens, and serving warrants.
• Works at a desk, works at a computer terminal, performs special assignments, serves as a detective, crime prevention officer, SWAT team member, or gang unit member.

Qualifications

• Good working knowledge of City of Mukilteo laws.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to deal with the public in a fair and equal manner.
• Ability to operate motor vehicle and exit quickly to affect an arrest.
• Ability to participate in the use of physical force and training for such on a continuing basis.

Minimum Educational And Experience Qualifications

• Any equivalent combination of education and experience which provides the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the job.
• United States citizen or lawfully permanent resident.
• At least 21 years of age.
• High school diploma or GED.
• Current and valid Washington State driver's license within 30 days of hire.
• Read and write the English language at a skill level commensurate with general law enforcement duties and responsibilities.
• Pass job-related performance aptitude and physical ability tests.
• Satisfy psychological and truth detection examinations.
• Satisfy examinations by licensed healthcare providers to ensure no physical, emotional, sensory, or mental conditions exist which could adversely affect performance of duties, including a drug screen.
• Driving history free of violations that show a disregard for safe and effective operation of motor vehicles.
• Criminal record free of convictions which relate to fitness to perform the job of Police Officer.
• No felony convictions.
• Other requirements identified by the Mukilteo Civil Service Commission Rules and Regulations.

License Or Certification

• Washington State Driver License and record acceptable to the City.
• Successfully pass examinations as required by the Mukilteo Civil Service Commission Rules and Regulations.

Working Conditions

• Sitting for eight to ten hours a day while operating a patrol vehicle.
• Contact with irate and combative citizens.
• Lift and move objects weighing up to 100 pounds.
• Occasional physical and verbal response to combative citizens.
• Physical ability and willingness to affect an arrest or restrain a hostile prisoner.

Additional Compensation

• Premium Pay - 5% for duty as Corporal, Investigative Officer (Detective), Field Training Officer, Crime Prevention Officer, Youth/Dare Officer, or Administrative Assistant.
• Education Pay - 2% for AA, 4% for BA/BS.
• Merit Pay (Longevity Pay) - 2%, 4%, 6%, 8%.
• Extra Duty Pay.
• Insurance:
• Medical Insurance provided through LEOFF Trust. Employer pays 100% of employee premiums and 90% of dependent premiums.
• Dental and Vision Insurance provided through LEOFF Trust. Employer pays 100% of employee and dependent premiums.
• Life Insurance value equal to annual salary.

Supplemental Information

• Working Conditions: Physical demands, noise level, and work environment.
• Additional Compensation: Premium Pay, Education Pay, Merit Pay, Extra Duty Pay, Insurance, and Leave.
• Investment and Retirement Programs: Three 457 Deferred Compensation Plans to choose from.