Public Service Officer

Description: Essential Job Functions/Public Service Officer: Communicate effectively over law-enforcement radio channels while initiating and responding to radio communications, often under adverse conditions. Communicate verbally and effectively by listening to people and by giving information, directions and commands. Conduct visual and audio monitoring of jail for extended periods of time. Gather information in criminal investigations by interviewing and obtaining the statements of victims, witnesses, suspects and confidential informants. Manage interpersonal conflicts to maintain order. Operate an emergency vehicle during both the day and night, while exercising due care and caution in congested traffic and in unsafe road conditions and environmental conditions such as fog, smoke, rain, ice and snow. Perform law-enforcement functions while working rotating shifts and unanticipated overtime. Perform tasks that require lifting, carrying or dragging people or heavy objects while performing limited law-enforcement functions. Perform searches of persons that involve touching and feeling to detect potential weapons and contraband. Prepare investigative and other reports, including sketches, using appropriate grammar, symbols and mathematical computations. Read and comprehend rules, regulations, policies, procedures and the law for purposes of ensuring appropriate PSO behavior/response and performing activities involving the public. Subdue resisting subjects using hands and feet while employing defensive tactics maneuvers of approved nonlethal weapons.