PATROLMAN

Job description

Job DetailsJob Location: MANCHESTER, TN 37355 SUMMARY: Performs intermediate protective service work involving a variety of general or support duty police assignments; does related work as required. Work is performed under regular supervision. Work is frequently performed under emergency situations and involves considerable personal hazard and danger. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/TYPICAL TASK: Patrol city, respond to service requests; enforce laws and ordinances; make arrests, testify in court; prepare records and files. Seek solution to possible problems before event occurs. Ability to pursue offenders on foot and or in a vehicle; use judgment in amount and type of force used. Ability to perform CPR and First Aid, as needed. Operates a patrol vehicle to observe for violations of traffic laws, suspicious activities or persons and disturbances of law and order. Responds to radio dispatches and answers calls and complaints. Issues citations for traffic violations. Serves warrants and makes arrests and testifies in court. Provides police escorts, directs traffic; performs residential and commercial checks. Fills out arrest records, fingerprints, photographs, etc.; performs prisoner security fu...