School Resource Officer

About the role

Perform a variety of law enforcement and crime prevention tasks, investigative work, special assignments, technical and administrative tasks in support of the Police Department.

Responsibilities

• Counsels students and mediates hostile situations.
• Investigates offenses that occur on campus/school property.
• Ars arrest for offenses violating laws and ordinances.
• Questions suspects, witnesses and takes statements, serves warrants.
• Gathers intelligence, forwards to criminal investigations for potential problems.
• Conducts classroom instruction on laws and enforcement.
• Counsels and advises students on responsibilities and procedures concerning criminal matters, abuse or child abuse.
• Provides security for outside school activities or events when needed.
• Mets with school personnel, students, and parents to discuss truancy problems.
• Teaches classes; prepares class outline for instruction.
• Responds to calls for service and complaints on campus/school property.
• Responds to calls for police service and takes action upon observing a circumstance or situation requiring police attention, i.e., responding to domestic disputes and disturbances, disputes among neighbors, juveniles, on-going criminal investigations.
• Interviews witnesses, victims, suspects, arrested persons, and informants to obtain pertinent information concerning accidents/crimes.
• Provides information to the public, victims, witnesses, and relatives concerning available services in the community.
• Provides assistance and service to the public, i.e., changing tires, directing traffic, unlocking vehicles, jump-starting batteries.
• Responds to burglary and fire alarms, and robbery in progress calls, and performs initial building searches.
• Performs CPR at scenes, and performs critical emergency care, such as stopping excessive bleeding, during the interim when emergency medical personnel are en route.
• Conducts initial crime scene investigations, i.e., identifies and collects crucial evidence to be secured for processing, labels evidence with data for crime scene reconstruction, packages and stores evidence in a manner to protect chain of custody.
• Enforces State and local traffic laws to ensure safety, investigates motor vehicle accidents, and protects lives and property at all motor vehicle accident scenes.
• Identifies and issues municipal citations to violators of misdemeanor offenses.
• Enforces laws and apprehends misdemeanor and felony violators and fugitives; arrests and transports persons found to have committed a criminal act.
• Testsifies in civil, traffic, and criminal court proceedings, ALR and Evidentiary hearings, and gives depositions.
• Performs considerable report and record maintenance duties, i.e., initial investigations, crime reports, felony reports, statements, arrest reports, warrant forms, inventory and search, property receipts and dispositions.
• Attends in-service training as directed to maintain current knowledge of changes in laws, new methods of enforcement, and other trends and developments in law enforcement.
• Assists fire personnel at the scene as directed.

  Requirements

  • High School Diploma or equivalency.
  • Must be eligible for basic certification as a Peace Officer by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE).
  • Valid Texas Class C Driver’s License.

  Qualifications

  • Knowledge of operational characteristics, services and activities of a comprehensive law enforcement program.
  • Knowledge of administrative directives, policies and procedures of both the City of Aubrey and the Police Department.
  • Knowledge of pertinent Federal, State, and local laws, codes and regulations.
  • Knowledge of technical aspects of crime prevention and law enforcement including investigation and identification, patrol, traffic control, records management, and care and custody of persons and property.
  • Knowledge of the geography of the city and the surrounding vicinity.
  • Knowledge of the safe use of firearms and other modern police equipment.
  • Knowledge of advanced law enforcement principles and the criminal justice system.
  • Knowledge of operational characteristics, services, and activities of various police operations and programs.
  • Skill in communicating clearly and concisely, both oral and written.
  • Skill in planning, organizing, and managing time effectively.
  • Skill in resolving a variety of situations characterized by conflict or danger.

  Skills

  • Ability to work independently in the absence of supervision.

  Benefits

  We Offer a Complete Benefits Package
  Take Home Car Program$2,600 retention pay
  Certification Pay (Intermediate $1,500 / Advanced $2,100 / Master $2,700)
  Medical, Dental, and Vision Benefits (100% of basic employee-only coverage paid for by the City)
  City-provided HSA contribution (if enrolled in the HDHP)
  Flexible spending accounts
  City-provided disability benefits
  City-provided life insurance
  Texas Municipal Retirement System (TMRS) pension (8% with a 2:1 city match)
  Mission Square 457 Plan with pre-tax 88 hours paid holidays
  Paid vacation and sick leave
  Longevity Pay