Supervisory Police Officer

Full Job Description

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position: As Chief, Police/Provost Marshal Division, the incumbent is technically and administratively responsible for the law enforcement operations at a small garrison within the Installation Management Command (IMCOM).

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized 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 and includes planning law enforcement operations to maintain order and protect life, property, and/or civil matters; recommend solutions to correct police department deficiencies and to amend policy, procedure, staffing, and/or funding problems; train subordinate police officers to ensure police administration is conducted in accordance with applicable policy, regulation and law; provide law enforcement updates to senior leadership and advise the Director of Emergency Services on all police matters to influence informed organization decisions.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.

For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone -- no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

Additional Conditions of Employment: In accordance with AR 690-11, this position has been designated as "Key" and shall not be vacated during a national emergency or mobilization as doing so would seriously impair the capability of the organization to function effectively.

The incumbent must be exempted from recall to active duty. This is a Testing Designated Position (TDP) and is covered by the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Program.

IAW AR 600-85, a DA 5019R Condition of Employment must be signed for mandatory drug testing. NOTE: Federal law requires removal of federal law enforcement officers convicted of felonies.

The Omnibus Federal Budget Bill for Fiscal Year 2001 (Public Law 106-554) includes a provision that imposes requirements on federal agencies, including DoD installations, that employ law enforcement officers.

The provision, which is in Section 639 of PL 106-554, requires agencies to remove law enforcement officers from employment as law enforcement officers if they are convicted of a felony after the law takes effect.

Felony convictions that occurred before the new law takes effect are not included in this requirement; only new convictions will trigger the requirement. The law went into effect on January 20, 2001.

Major Duties:

• You will develop law enforcement programs and operating plans for the installation with responsibility for planning, supervising, and managing the operations of the division.
• You will formulate long-range operating plans based on assigned mission and functions; and regulatory guidance, facilities, equipment, funding, and staffing requirements necessary for mission accomplishment.
• You will advise top-level installation managers on police department issues and develop acceptable solutions to problems.
• You will manage and supervise the law enforcement staff directly.