Police Officer

Full Job Description

The FBI is looking for Police Officers and seeking qualified candidates from a variety of backgrounds and professional disciplines who are committed to combating crime and terrorism while protecting the American public.

All New Police Officers will be offered their working location based on the needs of the Bureau and must sign a two-year service agreement agreeing to stay in the Police Officer Program and their office of assignment location for a period two years.

GS-7: Applicants must possess at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-5 grade level.

SE is defined as: Independently performing routine, recurring kinds of fixed post and patrol assignments to include: commonly accepted installation traffic laws and rules; regulating access to Federal buildings and conduct of visitors and employees.

OR Have successfully completed a full 4 year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree.

Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirement if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.

All degrees must be from an accredited college or university. GS-9: applicants must possess at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 grade level.

SE (in addition to the above) is defined as: Experience that provided knowledge of a body of basic laws and regulations, law enforcement operations, practices, and techniques and involved responsibility for maintaining order and protecting life and property.

Creditable specialized experience may have been gained in work on a police force; through service as a military police officer; in work providing visitor protection and law enforcement in parks, forests, or other natural resource or recreational environments; in performing criminal investigative duties; or in other work that provided the required knowledge and skills.

Experience in writing incident and investigative reports and issue citations. GS-10: applicants must possess at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-9 grade level.

SE (in addition to the above) is defined as: Experience performing law enforcement work in the protection of life, property and the civil rights of individuals; with secondary mission being the protection of Government property and national security information from acts sabotage, espionage, terrorism, trespass, theft, fire, and accidental and/or willful damage and destruction.

Experience responding to a wide variety of calls concerning very serious and sensitive situations involving disorderly conduct, deranged persons, and similar occurrences.

Experience maintaining law and order and provides a variety of protective services for employees and visitors on Federal property.

GS-11: applicants must possess at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-10 grade level.

SE (in addition to the above) is defined as: Experience with operations and techniques used in preventing or resolving offenses.

Well-versed in the methods and procedures used in conducting preliminary investigations of a wide array of offenses, ranging from the most minor to felony and capital crimes.

Experience in patrolling operations, tactics, and optimal strategies for handling unruly persons, violent unruly crowds involved in planned or impromptu demonstrations or riots, detection of explosives, presence of illegal drugs, hostage situations, counterterrorist operations, vehicular and pedestrian accidents, safety violations, and other serious accidents.

Major Duties:

Provide public safety by maintaining order, respond to emergencies, protect people and property, enforce motor vehicle and criminal laws, and promote good community relations.

Monitor, note, report, and investigate suspicious persons and situations, safety hazards, and unusual or illegal activity in patrol area.

Identify, pursue, and arrest suspects and perpetrators of criminal acts. Investigate traffic accidents and other accidents to determine causes and to determine if a crime has been committed.

Record facts to prepare reports that document incidents and activities. Check for proper identification of pedestrian and vehicular traffic prior to admittance to secure space at Stationary posts.

Provide screening of vehicles for the detection of explosive devices.

Respond to a variety of alarm situations, protect and safeguard information and material affecting national security and defense and protects people and their civil rights from a wide variety of dangerous and hostile situations.

For more information regarding the FBI Police Officer position, please review FBI Police Officers: An Inside Look.