Police Officer (Lateral)

About the role

The El Mirage Police Department is hiring Lateral Police Officers. We are looking for proactive, community-minded individuals who want to gain experience and make a difference in our family-friendly environment.

Responsibilities

• Responds to service and assistance calls.
• Conducts investigations by locating physical evidence, victims, witnesses and suspects.
• Gathers information and completes interviews.
• Documents facts and elements of a crime.
• Makes arrest when necessary.
• Writes reports.
• Operates a motor vehicle and patrols assigned areas.
• Testifies in court.
• Holds and participates in training sessions, as assigned.
• Serves as a detention/booking officer.
• Serves warrants.
• Provides for traffic control.
• Operates and maintains devices, equipment and weapons associated with law enforcement activities.
• Secures crime scenes.
• Administers first aid.

Requirements

• Must be at least 21 years of age and a United States citizen.
• A high school diploma or equivalent.
• A valid Arizona Class D Driver’s License.
• AZPOST certification.

Qualifications

• Understanding and interpreting laws, regulations, policies and procedures.
• Applying police methods and procedures, including patrol, crime prevention, traffic control, investigation and identification techniques, equipment, police records and reports, and first aid techniques.
• Interviewing victims and witnesses to obtain facts.
• Accurately remembering faces, numbers, incidents and places.
• Thinking and acting quickly in emergencies and to judge situations and people accurately.
• Rendering credible testimony in a court of law.
• Using standard broadcasting procedures of a police radio system.
• Operating computerized law enforcement information systems.
• Exercising judgment and making decisions as to appropriate action under pressure in accordance with rules, regulations and policies.
• Working cooperatively, courteously, but firmly with the public.
• Properly caring for firearms and related law enforcement equipment.
• Calculating measurements and performing addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and percentages.
• Correctly identifying elements of a crime and accurately recording them in a police report for purposes of prosecution.
• Operating a motor vehicle safely.
• Maintaining morale standards and integrity.

Skills

• Understanding and interpreting laws, regulations, policies and procedures.
• Applying police methods and procedures, including patrol, crime prevention, traffic control, investigation and identification techniques, equipment, police records and reports, and first aid techniques.
• Interviewing victims and witnesses to obtain facts.
• Accurately remembering faces, numbers, incidents and places.
• Thinking and acting quickly in emergencies and to judge situations and people accurately.
• Rendering credible testimony in a court of law.
• Using standard broadcasting procedures of a police radio system.
• Operating computerized law enforcement information systems.
• Exercising judgment and making decisions as to appropriate action under pressure in accordance with rules, regulations and policies.
• Working cooperatively, courteously, but firmly with the public.
• Properly caring for firearms and related law enforcement equipment.
• Calculating measurements and performing addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and percentages.
• Correctly identifying elements of a crime and accurately recording them in a police report for purposes of prosecution.
• Operating a motor vehicle safely.
• Maintaining morale standards and integrity.

Benefits

• Field Training Officer (FTO): 5% to the base hourly rate.
• Specialty Assignment Pay: 5% to the base hourly rate for assignments in the gang task force, neighborhood enforcement team, canine unit, traffic motor unit, or special weapons and tactics (SWAT).
• Deferred Compensation: $100.00 employer contribution per pay period.
• Uniform Allowance: $700 at academy graduation or upon start, and up to $1,400 per year.
• Bilingual Pay: $0.75 per hour.
• Shift Pay: $0.50 to $1.00 per hour.
• On-call Pay: $3.00 per hour.
• Call Back: 4 hours at the overtime rate.
• Health and Dental Insurance: City pays 100% of employee-only health and dental premiums for base health and dental plans.
• Tuition Assistance: 100% reimbursement per credit hour up to $5,250 per calendar year.
• Vacation Leave: Up to 80 hours the first year, and 10 additional hours for each year of service thereafter, up to 180 hours per year.
• Sick Leave: Up to 96 hours per year.
• Service Award Leave: Up to 40 hours per year.
• Holiday Pay: 10 hours holiday pay for 10 holidays.
• Sick Leave Conversion at Retirement Eligibility: Employees with a minimum of 1000 hours of accrued and unused sick leave at the time of separation are eligible for pay of an amount of compensation equal to 40%. Employees with a minimum of 1400 hours, eligible for compensation equal to 60%.

Pay

Pay starts up to $51.81 per hour ($107,764.80 annually), depending on qualifications.

Schedule

Details on schedule will be provided during the interview process.