Job opening: Police Officer
Salary: $59 172 - 88 926 per year
Published at: May 22 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
The FBI is looking for Police Officers to apply their skills to the world's premier law enforcement agency. We're seeking candidates from a variety of personal backgrounds and professional disciplines who are committed to combating crime and terrorism while protecting the American public. FBI Police Officers protect public safety by maintaining order, responding to emergencies, protecting people and property, enforcing motor vehicle and criminal laws and promoting good community relations.
Duties
Provide public safety by maintaining order, respond to emergencies, protect people and property, enforce motor vehicle and criminal laws, and promote good community relations.
Monitor, note, report, and investigate suspicious persons and situations, safety hazards, and unusual or illegal activity in patrol area.
Identify, pursue, and arrest suspects and perpetrators of criminal acts.
Investigate traffic accidents and other accidents to determine causes and to determine if a crime has been committed.
Record facts to prepare reports that document incidents and activities.
Check for proper identification of pedestrian and vehicular traffic prior to admittance to secure space at Stationary posts. Provide screening of vehicles for the detection of explosive devices.
Respond to a variety of alarm situations, protect and safeguard information and material affecting national security and defense and protects people and their civil rights from a wide variety of dangerous and hostile situations
For more information regarding the FBI Police Officer position, please review FBI Police Officers: An Inside Look.
Qualifications
To qualify for a GS-7: Applicants must possess at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-6 grade level. SE is defined as:
Independently performing routine, recurring kinds of fixed post and patrol assignments to include: commonly accepted installation traffic laws and rules; regulating access to Federal buildings and conduct of visitors and employees.
OR
Have successfully completed a full 4 year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree. Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirement if you can show that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. All degrees must be from an accredited college or university.
To qualify for a GS-8, applicants must possess at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-7 grade level. SE (in addition to the above) is defined as:
Experience demonstrating safe and effective use of a variety of firearms and weapons.
Experience in utilizing protective devices, methods and procedures involving the utilization of CCTV, radios, alarm terminals, security monitors and Security Access System.
To qualify for a GS-9, applicants must possess at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-8 grade level. SE (in addition to the above) is defined as:
Experience that provided knowledge of a body of basic laws and regulations, law enforcement operations, practices, and techniques and involved responsibility for maintaining order and protecting life and property.
Creditable specialized experience may have been gained in work on a police force; through service as a military police officer; in work providing visitor protection and law enforcement in parks, forests, or other natural resource or recreational environments; in performing criminal investigative duties; or in other work that provided the required knowledge and skills.
Experience in writing incident and investigative reports and issue citations.
Successful completion of a Federal, State, county, or municipal police academy or comparable training course that included at least 40 classroom hours of instruction in police department procedures and methods, and local law and regulation, may be substituted for a maximum of 3 months of specialized experience or 6 months of general experience.
When completing the online questionnaire, you will be asked a series of questions related to the competencies listed below:
Communication - Concentration & Vigilance - Problem Solving/Judgment
In addition to answering the questionnaire, please ensure that we can see some evidence of the required experience in your resume. In most cases, when you describe your work, school, or volunteer experience, you will give an example of the kind of tasks you handled, the experience you had, or the problem(s) you solved.
If you are deemed qualified for this job, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses to the online assessment questionnaire. If you rate yourself higher in the questionnaire than what is supported by your application materials and items listed in your resume, you may be excluded from consideration for the FBI Police position.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Contacts
- Address Federal Bureau of Investigation
935 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20535
US
- Name: Kathleen Pope
- Email: [email protected]
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