Police Lieutenant

Essential Job Functions: Acts as watch commander and directs the operations and activities on an assigned shift. Supervises, supports, and instructs sworn officers and civilian personnel to work assignments and procedures in patrol, investigations, traffic, or other assigned areas; assists officers on calls for service. Receives and responds to inquiries, complaints, or reports of emergencies; determines need for action and directs officers in handling difficult problems. Assists with the recruitment and selection of division personnel; assigns, directs, supports, trains, and inspects the work of staff; rewards, disciplines, coaches, counsels, and evaluates staff performance; develops staff schedules; recommends transfers, promotions, suspensions, terminations, and demotions. Supervises the preparation of and reviews activity reports submitted by shift personnel. Provides in-service training and/or schedules training courses and schools for employees. Performs all officer duties; patrols streets; investigates traffic accidents; responds to calls for service; supervises activities at major crime scenes until investigative personnel arrive. Serves warrants; makes arrests; testifies in court. Manages property inventory and oversees the distribution of weapons, uniforms, and fixed assets to new and existing employees; issues uniforms, equipment, and vehicles to staff; ensures that proper equipment is available to each unit and in proper working condition. Inspects officers' uniform, vehicle, and equipment to ensure conformance with departmental policies, standards, and operational readiness. Inspects police vehicles for damage, equipment, operations, mechanical condition, and cleanliness. May be assigned specific collateral duties such as administrative, special response team, special operations, instructor, honor guard, etc. Performs work during emergency or disaster situations upon request and as assigned by management. Assists with providing updates to the Police department's social media pages and website. Assures clear lines of communication between executive leadership staff and line officers and that departmental policy, procedures and practices are clearly transmitted and understood. Regularly demonstrates the Town's core values of respect, engagement, supportive work environment, communication and service excellence. Holds others accountable to do the same.

Requirements: Associates/Technical degree with coursework in criminal justice, or related field. Extensive (6+ years) experience in law enforcement including considerable (3-5 years) supervisory experience. Possession of Basic Law Enforcement Training certification. Ability to obtain Advanced Law Enforcement Officer certificate within one year of hire. Possession of an appropriate driver's license valid in the State of North Carolina.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: Comprehensive knowledge of approved principles, practices, and procedures of law enforcement. Comprehensive knowledge of pertinent Federal and State laws and municipal ordinances. Ability to assign, direct, supervise, and evaluate the work of officers. Ability to analyze complex police problems and to adopt effective and reasonable courses of action with due regard to surrounding hazards and circumstances. Ability to communicate ideas effectively both orally and in writing. Ability to prepare and present detailed reports. Ability to operate personal computer including some knowledge of applicable software packages. Ability to perform work during emergency or disaster situations upon request and as assigned by management. Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates, victims, suspects, outside law enforcement agency representatives, and the public.

Physical Requirements: This work requires the regular exertion of up to 10 pounds of force and occasional exertion of over 100 pounds of force; work regularly requires speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or feel and reaching with hands and arms and occasionally requires standing, walking, sitting, climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, tasting or smelling, pushing or pulling, lifting and repetitive motions; work requires close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception, color perception, night vision and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and to convey detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, using of measuring devices, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities; work regularly requires working near moving mechanical parts, frequently requires exposure to outdoor weather conditions and occasionally requires wet, humid conditions (non-weather), working in high, precarious places, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to toxic or caustic chemicals, exposure to the risk of electrical shock, working with explosives, exposure to vibration and exposure to bloodborne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).

Note: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as assigned to meet the ongoing needs of the organization. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions.