Job opening: Supervisory Police Officer
Salary: $69 107 - 89 835 per year
Published at: Aug 16 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
The incumbent serves as a supervisory Police Officer (Major) ensuring a safe and secure environment across all VA administrations within various settings, including a variety of jurisdictional environments, such as VHA Medical Centers and facilities, Inpatient Clinics, Outpatient Clinics, domiciliary and administrative sites throughout the United States.
Duties
This position serves as a vital part of the VA Police Services often serving as the face of the VA and as the first person a Veteran or visitor encounters when entering a VA facility. The incumbent coordinates, oversees and/or provides security and assistance to Veterans, patients, employees, contractors, volunteers, affiliates, visitors, and others who frequent VA facilities daily. The incumbent is also responsible for the protection of high value assets from theft, intentional damage and unauthorized removal of government property. The incumbent is expected to empathize, engage, and communicate with all individuals they encounter to ensure a positive outcome and the safety of the facility and all its occupants. The incumbent provides advice and guidance to PS management officials and staff. Additional duties include but is not limited to the following:
Directs and supervises a variety of police/law enforcement assignments and projects.
Leads, prioritizes, assigns, reviews, approves and/or disapproves employee's assignments.
Identifies the development and training needs for police staff supervised.
Develops strategic priorities, goals, objectives and establishes criteria to determine the effectiveness and efficiency of a police department.
Maintains professional relationships with law enforcement representatives, judges, attorneys and other organizations.
Identifies, collects and preserves physical evidence, prepares reports and testifies in court when needed.
Provides direct authority over police personnel and detectives as they conduct investigations and searches, identifies and evaluates physical evidence.
Ensures staff collects, preserves and maintains integrity of evidence.
Ensures res staff properly packages, stores, secures evidence and maintains chain of custody.
Guides and advises in the case preparation for court proceedings.
Conducts and oversees the preliminary and supplemental investigation of crimes, interviewing victims, complainants, witnesses and suspects.
Directs and oversees full investigations over prolonged periods of time.
Applies all required rules for search and seizure and obtains search arrest warrants.
Questions and takes statements from victims, witnesses, and complainants, and clarifies conflicting statements, and interrogates suspects.
Adjusts department workloads and assignments as needed to meet unexpected emergency conditions.
Prepares, conducts and reviews performance evaluations.
Takes disciplinary actions when needed.
Supervises and assigns subordinate Captains, Lieutenants, Sergeants, Police Officers, Detectives and staff to investigate specific problems and cases.
Determines and directs corrective action of discrepancies identified.
Makes independent decisions to take/direct immediate steps when responding to highly dangerous criminal activity in progress.
Supports incident command functions during serious occurrences impacting an organizations operation.
Prepares, conducts and reviews performance evaluations.
Takes disciplinary actions when needed.
Adjusts department workloads and assignments as needed to meet unexpected emergency conditions.
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. - May include rotating 8, or 12-hour shifts, to include weekends and Holidays as needed to meet the needs of the medical center
Compressed/Flexible: Not Available
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Police Officer/PD91145O
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not required
Physical Requirements: The work requires, on a regular and recurring basis, considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as running, frequent climbing of multiple flights of stairs, and carrying items weighing over 50 pounds. It requires stamina, physical agility, dexterity, and the strength to pursue, apprehend or detain persons who are often uncooperative, assaultive, and/or armed.
Working Conditions: The work involves both moderate and high risks and possible endangerment of life or serious injury that requires the exercise of safety precautions and use of personal protective equipment The work is performed in settings in which there is regular and recurring exposure to moderate to severe discomforts and unpleasantness, such as high temperatures in confined spaces, high temperatures due to mandatory protective personal equipment, or adverse weather conditions during extended periods of traffic and patrol duties. The work involves moderate risk requiring exercise of safety precautions when working around hazardous materials such as toxic gases, explosives, infectious biological materials, and others that pose a moderate risk of exposure.
Qualifications
To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 09/05/2023.
Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-10. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.
Selective Placement Factor: Arrest Authority
Specialized Experience: You must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade GS-9 in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Examples of specialized experience would typically include, but are not limited to:
Knowledge of the principles of supervision, training and performance evaluation to supervise a law enforcement staff engaged in protecting and safeguarding the public.
Knowledge of an extensive body of standardized, optional, and innovative investigative procedures, techniques, and methods to detect, investigate, and resolve crimes and other incidents that are beyond the scope or requirements to oversee law enforcement criminal activities, including patrol conducting stakeout operations, and executing investigative techniques, resulting in arrests of suspects and, in some instances, in changes in patrol operating methods.
Skills to detect inconsistencies in facts and information being reviewed and guide Police Officers as needed during the investigation of complaints.
Detailed knowledge of federal, state, county, and local laws, legal codes, court procedures, and law enforcement regulations, methods and procedures and law enforcement requirements that apply to facilities depending upon their geographical location and the type of jurisdiction to ensure policing compliance and to prevent and resolve offenses.
Thorough knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, and government regulations, to apply common safety and security rules, regulations, procedures and practices, including effective restraint techniques, basic first aid, and CPR.
Effective Leadership skills, techniques, principles and procedures to assign, schedule, supervise, train and evaluate the work of PS law enforcement staff supervised and to carry out Captain responsibilities.
Written communication skills to prepare a variety of policing related reports, logs and documents for immediate supervisor's review and approval and to listen and understand directions, information and ideas presented verbally and in writing.
Effective skills of policing procedures to properly conduct search and seizure of evidence/contraband, pursue and apprehend persons fleeing a crime scene or attempting to resist arrest; to identify and arrest violators based on eyewitness accounts; to serve warrants and subpoenas to individuals on the property and to support dignitaries and activities specifically designated by the facility Director.
Skills of firearms and tactics for deployment in emergency situations to carry out policing emergency services and procedures, such as weapons and chemical agents, negotiations, building layouts, terrorist threats and counterterrorism methods, search and rescue techniques, and crowd and demonstration control.
Skills overseeing reports generated by staff using various automated systems and equipment, including National Crime Information Center (NCIC) terminal, internal Closed- Circuit Television (CCTV) surveillance system, National Incident Management System (NIMS) and Incident Command System (ICS) to provide guidance of operations to dispatch personnel and to properly enter and retrieve information on individuals and vehicles.
You will be rated on the following Competencies for this position:
Criminal InvestigationDecision MakingForensicsLeadershipManages and Organizes InformationManaging Human Resources
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religions; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
Note: A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.
Physical Requirements: The work requires, on a regular and recurring basis, considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as running, frequent climbing of multiple flights of stairs, and carrying items weighing over 50 pounds. It requires stamina, physical agility, dexterity, and the strength to pursue, apprehend or detain persons who are often uncooperative, assaultive, and/or armed.
Working Conditions: The work involves both moderate and high risks and possible endangerment of life or serious injury that requires the exercise of safety precautions and use of personal protective equipment The work is performed in settings in which there is regular and recurring exposure to moderate to severe discomforts and unpleasantness, such as high temperatures in confined spaces, high temperatures due to mandatory protective personal equipment, or adverse weather conditions during extended periods of traffic and patrol duties. The work involves moderate risk requiring exercise of safety precautions when working around hazardous materials such as toxic gases, explosives, infectious biological materials, and others that pose a moderate risk of exposure.
For more information on these qualification standards, please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/.
Education
There is no educational substitution at this grade level.
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here:
http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit:
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html.
Contacts
- Address Battle Creek VA Medical Center
5500 Armstrong Road
Battle Creek, MI 49037
US
- Name: Jamie Cole
- Phone: (269) 832-1641
- Email: [email protected]
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