LAW ENFORCEMENT - PATROL DEPUTY

We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include boilerplate like EEO, legal, etc. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Let's extract sections: - Intro: "Welcome to La Crosse County — Where Your Work Truly Matters Every day, our unique teams contribute to our vision of a community that is vibrant, safe, and resilient. Whether you're supporting families, safeguarding natural resources, maintaining infrastructure, or delivering essential services, your work here creates real impact for the people who live, work, and visit our county." This is about the organization, could be "About the role"? Actually "About the role" is more about the job. But we have "What You’ll Gain By Joining Us" which is benefits. Then "A Place Where Everyone Belongs" is culture. Then "Overview" includes FLSA, entry-level law enforcement position, etc. Then "Essential Leadership Functions" (list of leadership competencies). Then "Essential Job Functions" (detailed duties). Then "Related Job Functions". Then "Knowledge, Skills And Abilities". Then "Training, Experience And Other Requirements". Then "Other Requirements". Then "Equal Opportunity Employer" (boilerplate to drop). Then "Need an Accommodation?" (boilerplate). So we need to map to headings. We need sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to decide what content goes where. - About the role: Could be the overview description: "Overview FLSA: Non-Exempt. This is an entry-level law enforcement position..." plus maybe the intro about county mission. But we must not repeat job title. Use

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... overview paragraph(s). Could combine intro and overview. - Responsibilities: Essential Job Functions (list of duties). Also maybe "Related Job Functions" but that's similar. We'll put essential job functions as a list (

• ). Also maybe "Essential Leadership Functions" could be considered responsibilities? But they are leadership competencies; maybe they go under Skills or Qualifications. We'll decide. - Requirements: Could be "Training, Experience And Other Requirements" (certification, education, background, etc). Also "Other Requirements" (citizenship, residency, driving experience, license, physical/psych exam, drug screening). Combine. - Qualifications: Could be "Knowledge, Skills And Abilities". That includes knowledge, skills, abilities. Could be split into Skills and Qualifications. But we have separate headings for Skills and Qualifications. We need to decide distribution. We have headings: Skills, Qualifications. Usually Qualifications includes education, experience, certifications. Skills includes specific abilities. But we already have Requirements for experience etc. Might be overlapping. Better approach: Use sections as they appear in posting: About the role (overview), Responsibilities (essential job functions), Requirements (training, experience, other requirements), Qualifications (knowledge, skills, abilities), Skills (maybe leadership functions?), Benefits (what you gain), Pay (none), Schedule (none). Since Pay and Schedule not mentioned, we should NOT include those sections. We must not create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Benefits are stated: "What You’ll Gain By Joining Us" includes Wisconsin Retirement System, insurance, time off, vacation/sick accrual. So we include Benefits. Pay: not mentioned. So omit. Schedule: not mentioned (though mentions works various shifts, but not specific schedule). The posting says "Works various shifts." That could be considered schedule info. But it's vague. The rule: never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them. "Works various shifts" is somewhat specific? It states they work various shifts. That is a statement about schedule. Could be considered schedule content. However it's not a detailed schedule; but it's still a statement. The rule says avoid filler like "varies". "Works various shifts" is similar to "varies". Might be considered filler. Safer to omit Schedule section. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits. Now we need to extract content for each. About the role: Combine intro paragraph and overview. Intro: "Welcome to La Crosse County — Where Your Work Truly Matters Every day, our unique teams contribute to our vision of a community that is vibrant, safe, and resilient. Whether you're supporting families, safeguarding natural resources, maintaining infrastructure, or delivering essential services, your work here creates real impact for the people who live, work, and visit our county." Overview: "FLSA: Non-Exempt. This is an entry-level law enforcement position to which employees are selected by the Sheriff pursuant to County merit system procedures. Employees in this class work under close to moderate supervision in performing general duty police work connected with public safety through enforcement of applicable County, State and federal laws and ordinances. Employees in this class often exercise independent judgement in the field within State, local and Federal laws and departmental guidelines, upon receiving appropriate training and experience." We can combine into a paragraph. Responsibilities: Essential Job Functions (list). Also maybe "Related Job Functions" but we can incorporate as part of responsibilities. We'll list each duty as
• . Need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to include each bullet from Essential Job Functions. That's a long list. We'll need to copy them as list items. Essential Job Functions text: It's a paragraph with many sentences separated by semicolons. We need to split into list items. Each duty separated by semicolon. Let's extract: - Patrols highways and designated areas to detect, apprehend and arrest violators of motor vehicle laws and criminal laws; operates traffic enforcement equipment and issues citations. - Operates law enforcement vehicle for long periods of time during both day and night; in emergency situations involving speeds in excess of posted limits, in congested traffic and in unsafe road conditions caused by factors such as fog, smoke, rain, ice and snow. - Performs rescue functions at accidents and emergency situations; lifts, drags and carries people away from dangerous situations; provides first aid, orders wreckers and ambulances and aids accident victims, stranded motorists and disabled vehicles. - Directs and escorts traffic when necessary; escorts emergency and other vehicles such as oversize loads, etc. - Observes and checks business and other property for unlocked doors or signs of criminal activity. - Investigates accidents or criminal complaints received concerning violations of the law within guidelines of the department; investigates citizen complaints including suspected criminal activity, animal complaints, domestic disturbances, noise; prepares reports and handles related paperwork. - Performs searches of people, vehicles, building and large outdoor areas which may involve feeling and detecting objects, walking for long periods of time, detaining people and stopping suspicious vehicles and people. - Makes arrests and apprehends suspects, effecting the arrest, forcibly if necessary, using handcuffs and other restraints, subdue resisting suspects using maneuvers and weapons and resort to the use of hands and feet and other approved weapons in self-defense. - Puts on and operates a gas mask in situations where chemical munitions are used. - Protects scenes of crimes and collects and preserves evidence for investigative units; prepares evidence for court hearings and trials pursuant to established procedures; attends court whenever necessary to provide testimony and other evidence. - Conducts video and audio surveillance for extended periods of time. - Extinguishes small fires by using a fire extinguisher and other appropriate means. - Assists all Law Enforcement agencies as needed. - Serves civil and criminal processes, including sales upon executions, lawful seizures of goods, garnishments, etc.; makes proper return of all processes served and reports the service made. - Maintains and checks police and personal equipment such as radios, cameras, firearms, handcuffs, uniforms, squad cars and related equipment. - Prepares reports, including sketches, using appropriate grammar, symbols and mathematical computations. - Exercises independent judgment in determining when there is reasonable suspicion to detain, when probable cause exists to search and arrest and when force may be used and to what degree. - Effectively communicates with people, including juveniles, by giving information and directions, mediating disputes and advising of rights and processes. - Communicates clearly while testifying in courts or other formal settings. - Loads, unloads, aims and fires from a variety of body positions handguns, rifles and other agency firearms under conditions of stress that justify use of deadly force and at levels of proficiency prescribed in certification standards. - Reads and comprehends legal and non-legal documents, including the preparation and processing of such documents as citations, affidavits and warrants. - In this public service position, employee is required to be courteous, cooperative and respectful at all times, with the public and clients. Also establishes and maintains a courteous, cooperative and respectful working relationship with other employees, supervisors and public officials. - Follows policies and procedures as established by the Sheriff's Office. - Physical demands: Large percentage of time is driving squad car using near and far vision, color identification, talking, hearing, judgment, while operating police speed detection equipment and radios effectively and coherently. Frequently reads and writes. Walks, stands and bends intermittently throughout the day. A lesser amount of time is spent moving about other sites either walking, running or traversing rough terrain. When pursuing fleeing suspects or assisting at accidents or rescues, involves quickly entering and exiting law enforcement patrol vehicle; lifting, carrying and dragging injured person (weighing up to 160 lbs.); climbing over and pulling up oneself over obstacles; jumping down from elevated surfaces; climbing through openings; jumping over obstacles, ditches and streams; crawling in confined areas; balancing on uneven and narrow surfaces and using body force to gain entrance through barriers; stoops, kneels, crouches, crawls, runs, climbs; restrains and controls recalcitrant prisoners. - Works various shifts. - Occasionally uses judgment while under physical and/or mental stress. - There is potential exposure to blood borne pathogens. We need to keep all these as list items. Some are long sentences; we can keep as is. Responsibilities section:

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  Now Requirements: Training, Experience And Other Requirements + Other Requirements. Let's extract: Training, Experience And Other Requirements: - Certification: Must have completed the Basic Police Certification Training in Wisconsin within the last three years or already be certified as a Law Enforcement Officer in the State of Wisconsin by the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Standards Board. - Education: Requires a minimum of 60 fully accredited college-level credits. Preference for Bachelor's Degree or Associate Degree or Bachelor's Degree in Police Science or Criminal Justice. - Background: Must pass criminal background check suitable for working in law enforcement, which includes no felony convictions and no convictions for domestic abuse. Must pass character background investigation as required by the Wis. Law Enforcement Standards Board which "attests to the applicant's fitness to discharge assigned duties and responsibilities of a law enforcement officer." - Other Requirements: All candidates for this position must pass the oral interviews as established under the County Administrative Code or other County requirements. Must be a citizen of the United States, be a resident of the State of Wisconsin on the date employment is commenced and maintain that residency, have five years of previous driving experience, have and maintain a valid Wisconsin driver's license, and a good driving record. Successful candidates for the position must pass a physical and psychological examination and drug screening. We can combine into a list. Requirements section:

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  Now Qualifications: Knowledge, Skills And Abilities. Extract: - General knowledge of: Federal, State, County and, when applicable, municipal laws, rules and regulations; courtroom procedures