SUPERVISORY POLICE OFFICER (TITLE 5)

Full Job Description

This a National Guard Title 5 Excepted Service Position. This is a Permanent GS-0083-09 SUPERVISORY POLICE OFFICER (TITLE 5), Position Description Number T0085000 and is part of the MO 131st Bomb Wing.

This is a non-bargaining unit position.

GS-09 SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-08 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector that demonstrates your ability to coordinate, implement, and provide training for a police officer force at a military installation; perform and enforce a full range of police officer duties such as apprehension and detention, conducting preliminary and final short-term investigations of a broad range of alleged and actual crimes, investigating crimes and suspected criminal activities; interviewing witnesses; securing crime scenes, and compiling and preserving evidence.

The specialized experience must also demonstrate your ability to respond to calls for emergency assistance and makes apprehensions and arrests; perform full range of installation perimeter access control duties; provide a safe and secure by ensuring that commercial vehicles and visiting personnel requesting entry into the Installation are properly screened and searched; and defend Protection Level Resources by patrolling restricted/controlled areas, responding to security incidents and performing immediate visual assessments.

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.

LAUTENBERG AGREEMENT: This position authorizes the incumbent to carry a firearm.

Any person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence cannot lawfully possess a firearm or ammunition (Title 18, U.S.C., Section 922(g) (91)).

Candidates who have been convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence are not qualified for this position.

Candidates under consideration will be required to certify whether they have ever been convicted of such an offense.

False or fraudulent information provided by candidates is criminally punishable by fine or imprisonment (Title 18, U.S.C., Section 1001).

INVESTIGATION OF FITNESS: A character investigation will be conducted on applicants selected for employment.

The purpose of such an investigation is to secure evidence of the candidate's honesty, integrity, general character, and loyalty to the U.S. Government.

Such investigations will be conducted under the security requirements of the hiring agency.

MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS: The duties of this position requires moderate to arduous physical exertion and/or duties of a hazardous nature.

The following medical requirements apply to all applicants: good near and distant vision, ability to distinguish basic colors, and ability to hear the conversational voice.

Agencies may establish additional, job-related physical or medical requirements provided that the specific position(s) involves the arduous or hazardous duties to which the physical requirements relate.

Applicants and employees must have the capacity to perform the essential functions of the position without risk to themselves or others.

Applicants and employees must possess emotional and mental stability. In most instances, a specific medical condition or impairment will not automatically disqualify an applicant or employee.

A medical condition or impairment is disqualifying only if the condition, for good medical reason, precludes assignment to or warrants restriction from the duties of the specific position.

For some positions, the loss or impairment of a specific function may be compensated for by the satisfactory use of a prosthesis or mechanical aid.

Reasonable accommodation shall also be considered in determining an applicant's ability to perform the duties of a position.

Reasonable accommodation may include but is not limited to the use of assistive devices, job modification or restructuring, provision of readers and interpreters, or adjusted work schedules.

Additional Conditions of Employment: Must pass an initial pre-employment medical examination, periodic medical examinations, required physical fitness/physical agility tests, meet established hearing standards, and discern colors, contrast, and depth.

The incumbent must immediately report to his supervisor any significant medical threshold shifts in health status and/or medication requirements.

Incumbent must be qualified in the use of required weapons, as the incumbent will be required to use firearms in performing duties.

Employee is required to obtain and maintain required security clearance. Subject to annual duty position evaluation on a pass/fail standard.

Must undergo initial and periodic job compatibility assessment.

May be required to wear protective clothing such as coats, boots, and vests and/or chemical protective equipment, (e.g., respirator mask).

Must be able to operate all Security Forces Vehicles and installed equipment. An appropriate, valid driver's license is required for the position.

Work may occasionally require travel away from the normal duty station on military or commercial aircraft. Must pass formal law enforcement training school as outlined upon selection.

Incumbent will be exposed to the day-to-day dangers associated with law enforcement and security duties.

Must obtain and maintain first responder training/certifications required in CPR techniques, self-aid buddy care and/or Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), and first aid on the job and maintain annually.

Recurring training is required to keep the incumbent knowledgeable on the updated specialized tactics, techniques, and procedures necessary for preparation and response to catastrophic events, terrorist attacks and related threats to installations.

The work requires regular and recurring physical exertion such as running in pursuits or emergency responses, long periods of standing, walking, bending, stooping, reaching, crawling, and similar activities.

Employees engage in such exertions when responding to alarms and walking foot patrols in and around buildings.

This position may require common physical characteristics and abilities and dexterity and the strength to pursue and detain uncooperative suspects.

Ability to employ 'infantry/SWAT' small unit tactics involving fire and maneuver, with rapid advancing movement between defensive positions, while wearing protective gear for extended periods of time, (e.g., Employing "Active Shooter" response tactics and techniques as a member of a small team is required).

Applicants who meet one of the DoD Priority Placement Program categories below are eligible to apply with this preference.

(See Required Documents section) Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible" Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Major Duties:

• Plans, organizes, and directs flight operational activities, ensuring security and law enforcement functions comply with legal/regulatory requirements and meet customer needs.
• Reviews and structures organization to optimize use of resources and maximize efficiency and effectiveness of the organization.
• Balances workload and provides overall direction and vision on a wide range of crime protection, prevention, and administrative issues.
• Performs and enforces the full range of police officer duties within the military installation.
• Pursues and apprehends or directs apprehension of person(s) fleeing a crime scene or attempting to resist arrest; carries a firearm as required.
• Mirandizes suspects, preserves evidence, and testifies in court as it pertains to enforcing laws and regulations on a military installation.
• Exercises supervisory management responsibilities.
• Establishes, develops, and maintains effective working relationships with personnel, manpower, other staff officials, and municipal and other law enforcement departments.
• Meets with security forces branch/section chiefs and supervisors to explain resources and training organizational policy and procedures, resolve problems that arise, and gather program feedback.
• Performs the full range of installation perimeter access control duties.
• Ensures reasonable equity among units of performance standards developed, modified, and/or interpreted and rating techniques.
• Hears and resolves group grievances and employee complaints referred by employees.
• Hears and resolves group grievances and employee complaints referred by employees.
• Researches and determines or recommends appropriate actions or interpretation of issues that impact organization, installation, command, or agency.
• Researches and determines or recommends appropriate actions or interpretation of issues that impact organization, installation, command, or agency.
• Identifies need for change in organization priorities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.