Law Enforcement Officer - Part-Time

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Hourly Rate: $40.00/hr
Hours: Varies

Our internationally accredited Durham Police Department is dedicated to hiring and training officers and staff who represent the best the law enforcement profession has to offer. We are a progressive agency committed to reducing crime by providing the best quality service. We work to foster public confidence and maintain the highest standards of excellence as a community partner for positive change. If you’re interested in delivering superior emergency response services and working collaboratively to serve our community, join our team in Durham!

An incumbent is responsible for budget coordination; basic analysis; logistical support for politically sensitive and high-visibility programs; basic research, compiling data and formulating preliminary recommendations; creating reports; coordinating workflow; and developing, proposing and implementing operational policies and procedures. Work involves outreach and collaboration with all levels of the organization as well as outside agencies, citizens and elected officials.

• Conducts basic research, maintains statistics, performs basic analysis and/or statistical calculations and formulates preliminary recommendations.
• As assigned, serves as a lead worker, assigning work and monitoring work completion or serves as a supervisor including conducting performance evaluations, coordinating training, and implementing hiring, discipline and termination procedures.
• Provides logistical support for politically sensitive and high-visibility programs and events, including programs and events involving the city council; serves as escalation point for resolving customer services issues/inquiries; ensures follow up communication and quality assurance.
• Gathers and compiles data; extracts information from data systems; drafts reports from others notes or own research; prepares documents, reports, presentations, confidential correspondence and policy/procedure manuals.
• Serves as lead user for specialized databases and software systems; participates in database and/or software testing; coordinates workflow and implements improvements to processes.
• Provides general administrative support to the city’s top executives including receiving and processing calls, visitors and correspondence; calendaring; records management; customer service; mail processing; quality assurance and follow-up.
• Performs other duties of a similar nature and level as assigned.

POSITION SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES MIGHT INCLUDE

Positions assigned to Desk Officer may be responsible for

• Answers non-emergency telephone calls and completes necessary police reports, makes appropriate referrals or provides needed police advice.
• Ensures messages are recorded properly and distributed to appropriate person or location.
• Distributes general information to appropriate location.
• Cordially greet and assist citizens who walk in.
• Make appropriate record of Police personnel reporting sick.
• Maintains control of license and drivers’ license that are to be turned into D.M.V.
• Monitor desk channel and provide the needed assistance when requested.
• Enters private tows into RMS.
• Control entry to restricted areas.
• Provides for the security of Police Headquarters after normal business hours.
• Monitors the alarm panel and security cameras for Police Headquarters.

Positions assigned to City Hall Officer may be responsible for

• The City Hall Officer primary duty is to provide security and law enforcement services to the City of Durham Administrative Offices and Departments located within City Hall, Annex building, and the areas immediately adjacent to City Hall.
• The Officer will act as a liaison between the District Five Commander and City Hall employees.
• The Officer will handle calls for service such as alarms, incident reports, trespassing, and police advice.
• The Officer will make periodic, floor by floor patrols of the common areas throughout the building.
• The Officer will attend the quarterly City Hall Safety Committee meetings and brief the District Commander on any concerns expressed in that meeting.
• The Officer will stay informed of any ongoing security matters concerning possible threats to the safety, security, and the disruption of City services, to the employees and patrons of City Hall.
• During fire alarms/drills, the Officer will assist to clear out the lobby of visitors and assure that no one re-enters the facility until the alarm/drill is complete.
• The Officer will keep the cell phone assigned with them during their tour of duty and is responsible for promptly answering of the cell phone. The immediate supervisor for this Officer will be the on duty District 5 Supervisor.
• The night time Officer relieves the day shift Officer at 1600 hours. Their duties are to provide security for the Water Payment area until 1700 hours. At 1700 hours if there are no meetings scheduled for that day the Officer is to lock the Handicap door and the revolving door, and wait for the Water Payment workers to count the money and leave. If there are no meetings scheduled for that day, the Officer can set the alarm and leave.
• Meeting Days:
• If there are meetings planned for the day the Officer needs to still provide security for the Water Payment area, but at 1700 hours the Officer should turn people away. The only people that are allowed in City Hall after 1700 hours are City Hall employees and people going to meetings. When all meetings are over for the day, the Officer is to lock up the front doors and set the alarm. While the meetings are going on the Officer provides security for the main lobby and makes random rounds within City Hall.

Positions assigned to the Training Division may be responsible for

• Teaching police officers in a lecture format within a classroom environment.
• Administering Physical F