Corporal I

INTRODUCTION

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Creates, reviews and distributes reports.
• Monitors required reports needed from patrolmen for timely completion and accuracy.
• Attend department and team meetings to ensure effective communication.
• Responsible for responding to emergency calls.
• Completes special projects.
• Ensure control/protection of company assets.
• Available and willing to work, any changes in hours deemed necessary.
• Responsible for maintaining a consistent, regular good attendance record.
• May be required to be a panelist for the internal review hearings and testimony in Tribal, State and Federal Courts.
• Operate a two-way radio to receive and transmit messages.
• Ensures 24 hour/7day a week coverage schedule with available staff.
• Dispatch and direct emergency personnel consider call priority, availability and the number and types of personnel needed.
• Solicit informational responses, coordinate and communicate responses and monitor on-going activities to upgrade information received by field units as well as to enhance officer safety.
• Exercise discretion in a manner consistent with Departmental Policy and Procedures.
• Responsible to and accountable for compliance with departmental rules & regulations, policy and procedures, orders, and directives.
• Understand and operate within judicial processes and jurisdictional limitations.
• Ensure workplace safety.
• The incumbent must be able to perform transcription; ability to type, data entry; word processing; computer operation and other forms of modern department equipment.
• Coordinates police business with other city departments, law enforcement agencies, and courts and prosecutors.
• Perform duties in a professional manner.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Possess a valid Washington State driver's license.
• Associate’s degree (A.A.) or equivalent from two-year College or technical school; or two-year specialized experience and/or training in law enforcement; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge of Tribal Code, Washington state RCW and Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country.
• Direct experience in an organizational development role is strongly preferred.
• Ability to analyze and solve complex management problems having non-standard solutions.
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with public officials, department heads, associates and the public.
• Knowledge of a 24-hour, 7 day a week operation.
• Skill in effectively, communicating information through verbal and written correspondence to patrolman, managers, clients, customers, and the public, including writing reports, business correspondence and procedural manuals.
• Skill in solving practical problems and dealing with situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Excellent organizational, communication and leadership skills.
• Skills in assessing operation, program, staffing and fiscal needs.
• Skill in identifying and resolving administrative problems under pressure conditions.
• Work nights, weekends and holidays as required.
• Willingness to attend all additional training as required by supervisor
• Possess or ability to obtain certification from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and State of Washington Criminal Justice Training Programs. Attended or ability to attend within one-year Police First Line Supervision Training.
• *Indian Preference Applies – Indian Preference grants preference to any enrolled member of a federally recognized tribe.
• *Safety Sensitive Background – Requires a higher standard of performance and behavior.
• *FBI Background – Positions involving regular contact with, or control over, Indian Children in accordance with the Federal Indian Child Protection and Family Violence Prevention Act, Public Law 101-630