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LEAD POLICE OFFICER

Commander, Navy Installations Command

Department of the Navy

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$58,240 - $75,710

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GS-7 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $41,966 - $54,557

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-6. Bachelor's degree with superior academic achievement or 1 year graduate study.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This role involves leading a team of police officers at a Navy installation in Virginia, overseeing daily operations, providing training, and responding to security threats like terrorism or unauthorized access.

It requires quick decision-making in high-pressure situations, conducting investigations, and ensuring the safety of military personnel and property.

A good fit would be someone with prior law enforcement experience who thrives in team leadership and emergency response environments.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-07 level or equivalent in law enforcement, antiterrorism, and force protection
  • Ability to direct and make immediate decisions in LE, AT, and FP provisions
  • Experience performing full range of duties in preventing terrorist activities, resolving offenses, and conducting investigations
  • Skills in documenting law enforcement events, issuing citations, and implementing FPCON measures and RAM
  • Proficiency in distributing workload, providing on-the-job training, and maintaining knowledge of procedures and policies
  • Capability to respond to critical incidents, perform force protection and sentry duties, and serve as primary investigator for offenses

Full Job Description

You will serve as a LEAD POLICE OFFICER in the OPERATIONS DEPARTMENT of JEB LCFS SECURITY DETACHMENT.

In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered.

Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position.

Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of Specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-07 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following:1) Directing and making immediate decisions in the provisions of law enforcement (LE), antiterrorism (AT), and Force Protection (FP); 2) performing a full range of duties and responsibilities in preventing terrorist activities, resolving offenses, conducting preliminary and ongoing investigations of incidents; 3) Documenting law enforcement and security events and the issuance of citations; and, 4) Implementing FPCON measures and RAM in the response to command direction and terrorist threats Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0000/police-series-0083/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:

  • You will distribute and balance the workload among employees in accordance with established workflow or job specialization, assure timely accomplishment of the assigned workload, and assure that each employee has enough work to keep busy.
  • You will give on-the job training to new employees in accordance with established procedures and practices
  • You will maintain current knowledge and answer questions of other employees on procedures, policies, directives, etc., and obtain needed information or decisions from supervisor on problems that come up
  • You will respond immediately, assess and report situations, and conduct mitigating actions and preliminary investigations relating to a full spectrum of critical incidents.
  • You will perform a full range of force protection, anti-terrorism and sentry duties at installations or activities with significant operational assets, unrestricted access points, large populations onboard and around the installation/activity.
  • You will utilize a higher level of awareness and comprehension in order to deter, detect, delay and deny unauthorized access at CNIC installations, internal compounds, enclaves, critical infrastructure, and incident established cordons
  • You will serve as a primary investigator of offenses committed by or against military and civilian personnel.
  • You will serve as a primary investigator of offenses against government and private property located on Navy installations OR provides investigative support on segments of more extensive investigations to Detectives.
  • You will conduct investigations that are below the current Defense Criminal Investigative Organization or dedicated Investigator/Detective threshold.
  • You will train and participate in exercises, demonstrations, mock situations, and other practical scenarios where potential critical situations are performed to assure adequate preparation and resources are available to meet emergency requirements.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 4/13/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 4/13/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12931288-26-TAF