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PATROL OFFICER\ Department: Police Salary: \$65,000.00 - \$87,929.98 per year\ Affiliation: FOP, Lodge #1 FLSA: Non-Exempt\ Announcement #: 7010007 Posted: 08/14/2024 End: 10/11/2024 at 4:30 P.M.

PRIMARY FUNCTION: The Police Officer with the Wilmington Police Department performs general police work duties as authorized by law to protect life and property; prevents violations of statutes and laws; investigates and suppresses disturbances; investigates complaints; makes arrests and issues summonses when appropriate; does related work as required. The description is illustrative only and is not intended to represent the actual job description of the position or to imply that all duties and required knowledge, skills, and abilities are listed.\ PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The Police Officer with the Wilmington Police Department performs the following duties of patrol, investigation, police duties, maintenance activities, and special assignments. Enforces State law and City code violations. Patrols an assigned area during a specified period in a police car or on foot. Investigates suspicious conditions and complaints and makes arrests of persons who violate law and ordinances. Inspects and safeguards property, responds to alarms, chase violators on foot, and checks buildings. Accompanies prisoners to headquarters, jail, or court and appears in court as arresting officer. Directs traffic, assists stranded motorists, handles accidents and crime scenes, and enforces traffic laws. Maintains order in crowd situations and participates in community public relations programs. Looks for stolen cars and wanted or missing persons. Conducts criminal investigations, interviews, and interrogates concerned parties. Gives advice on laws and ordinances and general information to the public. The duties of a Police Officer may become unpredictably hazardous and can require acute use of the senses to discern various stimuli of danger. Officers are required to run distances, traverse rough terrain quickly, climb obstacles, and remove injured or unconscious persons from harm\'s way. Engages in physical confrontations using offensive and defensive tactics to subdue assaultive persons, and to effect a forceful arrest. Performs all related work as required.

WORKING CONDITIONS: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to fingers, handle or feel objects, tools or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works in outside weather conditions. The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts, in high, precarious places, and with explosives, and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, extreme heat, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.