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SUPERVISORY POLICE OFFICER

Commander, Navy Installations Command

Department of the Navy

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Salary

$61,722 - $80,243

per year

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GS-8 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $46,479 - $60,424

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-7. Graduate study or significant experience.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job is for a lead police officer at a Navy base in Tennessee, where you'll supervise a team handling security, investigations, and law enforcement to keep people and property safe.

It involves guiding officers on policies, investigating incidents, and managing daily operations like patrols and access control.

A good fit would be someone with strong leadership skills, hands-on police experience, and the ability to stay calm in high-pressure situations.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-08 level or equivalent in law enforcement or security
  • Expertise in anti-terrorism, physical security, law enforcement, and reaction force operations
  • Ability to supervise staff, including assigning tasks, evaluating performance, and recommending actions
  • Skills in investigating crimes, interviewing witnesses, conducting searches, and compiling evidence
  • Certification and qualification in traffic enforcement tools like radar and breathalyzer
  • Proficiency in preparing reports, documents, and protecting personal identifying information
  • Experience in apprehending individuals and verifying credentials for access control

Full Job Description

This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer.

Interested applicants must follow the directions in the "How to Apply" section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer.

Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.

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-08 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) Providing guidance on law enforcement and security policies and procedures; 2) Interviewing witnesses to crimes, accidents, or security breaches to determine facts, warrant apprehension, detention, or lesser action; 3) Resolving law enforcement issues; 4) Conducting searches to compile evidence of crime/accident scenes; 5) Reviewing reports for accuracy, discrepancies, and areas of concern.

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 provide advanced Anti-Terrorism (AT), Physical Security (PS), Law Enforcement (LE) and Reaction Force (RF) expertise/support.
  • You will oversee the operations of the Security Department operating under pre-prescribed guidelines and procedures espoused by leadership
  • You will protect operations, personnel, and assets.
  • You will make assignments based upon the capabilities of employees, review work, evaluate performance, recommend awards, effect or recommend administrative action, assess training required and institute requests.
  • You will apprehend personnel, both combative and noncombative members of the public.
  • You will perform traffic law enforcement using specialized equipment such as radar, breathalyzer, and must be qualified/certified in these specialized areas and on the necessary equipment.
  • You will prepare documents, correspondence, memoranda, reports, papers, charts, statistical tables, and messages, ensuring personal identifying information is protected.
  • You will verify credentials to ensure only authorized personnel, vehicles, and equipment having a valid need are permitted to enter the area.
  • You will serve as a primary investigator of offenses committed by or against military and civilian personnel, or against government and private property located on Navy installations or provide investigative support to Detectives.
  • You will perform other duties as assigned.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 4/1/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 4/2/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DE-12927151-26-ESM