Applicants must possess a Missouri Class A Peace Officer License. New hires shall be hired at a rate of pay in the pay matrix that recognizes a year of service for every year of service having previously worked in a law enforcement agency and possessed said license, up to a maximum of Fifteen (15) years. Must meet and maintain the minimum qualifications and licensing requirements while employed by the City of St. Louis. Must pass working test period to obtain permanent status. Working test period is six (6) months, however employees can be rated after ninety (90) days or extended for an additional five (5) months.
License: Applicants must possess and maintain a valid Missouri driver’s license while employed by the City of St. Louis.
Preferences:
- Previous law enforcement or military experience.
- Associate’s degree or higher or completion of college course work toward a degree.
Scoring Components and Their Weights Experience and Training: 100% Background Investigation: Pass/Fail Medical Examination: Pass/Fail
Character Investigation: Each applicant will be required to complete a background questionnaire and will be subject to an extensive background investigation. Applicants with unsatisfactory backgrounds will be eliminated from consideration for this position. Applicants must meet eligibility standards for licensing as a peace officer, as determined by the Missouri Department of Public Safety, Peace Officer Standards & Training (POST) Program. Applicants who have criminal histories as outlined in Section 590.080.1 and Section 590.100.1 of the Missouri Revised Statues are not eligible for POST licensing. Applicants with unsatisfactory criminal histories will be eliminated from consideration for this position.
Medical Examination: Upon acceptance of a conditional job offer, candidates will be required to pass an oral swab Drug Screen Test and Physical Examination and successfully complete a Psychological Examination as part of the Medical examination procedure. Police Officers are subject to random Drug Screen and Alcohol Tests without advance notice as a condition of their employment.
This is a Police Officer position with the City of St. Louis Department of Public Safety Police Division (SLMPD). Incumbents perform duties to patrol a specific area to protect life and property and enforce laws and ordinances using tactful and courteous treatment of the public and conscientious and efficient performance of duties.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Patrols a district or assigned area.
- Investigates offenses and any suspicious conditions, makes arrests, recovers property, transports prisoners to appropriate facilities, and prepares proper reports.
- Testifies in court as required.
- Enforces traffic and parking regulations, directs traffic, investigates and prepares reports of traffic accidents and incidents.
- Issues tickets to traffic violators.
- Disburses unruly crowds; providing assistance to sick, injured or destitute persons, reports suspicious activity or persons or hazards that endanger public safety to superior.
- Administers first aid as required.
- Reacts to situations utilizing appropriate levels of force as required within the Department’s level of force options.
- Inspects business places after normal working hours to determine if establishment is secure, including but not limited to public and licensed places, enforcing laws, ordinances and regulations concerning their operations.
- Warns or arrests persons violating ordinances.
- Inspects vacant houses and buildings in order to identify potential trouble spots; ensuring civil treatment and observance or rights of all persons contacted.
- Secures, receipts and properly transports all evidence and property coming into his/her custody; completing reports and performing desk duties as assigned.
- Maintains files and operates appropriate office equipment, attending daily roll call and receiving orders and instructions.
- Inspects vehicle and equipment at the beginning of each tour of duty.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to persuade, convince, influence, train and monitor suspects, victims and witnesses, in favor of a desired outcome.
- Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, calibrate, tune and synchronize, and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a motor vehicle, computer terminal, firearm, radio, baton, mace, and/or related materials used in performing essential functions.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as log books, property receipts, lists, zoning maps, special orders, blueprints, police and canine manuals and other non-routine correspondence.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages and decimals.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objective.
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in critical and/or unexpected situations involving moderate risk to the organization.
- Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.
- Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to constantly demonstrate eye/hand coordination, eye/hand/foot coordination, gripping and grasping, fine motor skills, talking or hearing (radio). Requires the ability to frequently walk, sit, climb, jump, balance, stoop, bend, kneel, squat, crouch and crawl. Requires the ability to occasionally lift or carry objects weighing up to fifty (50) pounds, such as tools or machinery. Requires the ability to occasionally push and pull objects weighing up to seventy-five (75) pounds, such as what would be required to restrain a violator and/or subject or handling a dog. Requires the ability to occasionally drag objects weighing up to one hundred fifty (150) pounds (over this amount/two person drag), such as unconscious victim and/or suspect, for a distance of fifty (50) feet. Requires the ability to occasionally run after suspects, for as much distance as able or as required. Requires the ability to occasionally taste or smell.
- Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes, sounds, odors and textures associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks, such as perceiving danger.
Other Requirements:
- The Police Division is a 24-hour per day, seven days a week service; therefore, work involves shift, weekend, holiday, and overtime assignments.