Police Officer – Lateral Officers/Academy Graduates

Job Description

Police Officer | City of La Verne Police Department

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at the City of La Verne Police Department, located in La Verne, CA. The department seeks dedicated individuals to join its ranks, upholding core values of professionalism, responsibility, innovation, dedication, and excellence. This position is vital for maintaining the safety and well-being of the community through law enforcement, crime prevention, and traffic control. Successful candidates will contribute to a close-knit city that values a safe, desirable, and engaged place to live.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, La Verne, CA

• Team: Reports to a Police Sergeant
• Mission: To perform law enforcement and crime prevention work, control traffic, enforce regulations, and conduct investigative work.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Patrol: Patrolling the City in a radio-equipped car, responding to calls for the protection of life and property, and enforcing City, County, and State laws.
• Investigations: Conducting preliminary and follow-up investigations of disturbances, criminal incidents, accidents, and other events.
• Traffic Management: Responding to traffic incidents, observing and controlling traffic conditions, assisting motorists, and enforcing traffic safety laws.
• Law Enforcement: Making arrests, interviewing victims, witnesses, and suspects, gathering and preserving evidence, and providing testimony in court.
• Reporting: Preparing detailed reports of arrests, activities performed, and any unusual incidents observed during duty.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Education equivalent to the completion of twelfth grade. Applicants must possess either a certificate of completion from a Police Academy or meet the criteria for a Lateral Entry Police Officer.
• Experience: For Lateral Entry Police Officers, completion of probation as a Police Officer with a California law enforcement agency, possession of a Basic P.O.S.T. Certificate, and actively worked as a full-time peace officer within California for at least 24 of the past 36 months.
• Skills: Ability to observe accurately and remember faces, numbers, incidents, and places; think and act quickly in emergencies and judge situations and people accurately; learn, understand, and interpret laws and regulations; prepare accurate and grammatically correct written reports; use and care for firearms.