Patrol Officer: Protect, Respond, and Serve with Impact

City of Dearborn Career Opportunities; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 73,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of Dearborn Police Department is seeking entry-level police officers to protect life and property, prevent crime, and enforce laws and local ordinances. The role requires the ability to think quickly and act within legal guidelines, with training provided through the academy if needed.

Selected candidates progress through an extensive process including exams, assessments, and a field training program, with promotion opportunities as experience increases.

Qualifications

• Some knowledge of modern approved principles, practices and procedures of police work.
• Some knowledge of federal and state laws and City ordinances, and of departmental rules and regulations.
• Some knowledge of first aid methods.
• Ability to learn streets and physical layout of the City and adjoining areas within an appropriate time frame.

Responsibilities

• Affects an arrest, forcibly if necessary, using handcuffs and other restraints.
• Pursues fleeing suspects on foot, both day and night, in unfamiliar terrain.
• Subdues resisting subjects using hands and feet while employing defensive tactics maneuvers or approved nonlethal weapons.
• Climbs over obstacles; climbs through openings; jumps down from elevated surfaces; jumps over obstacles, ditches and streams; and crawls in confined areas to pursue, search, investigate and/or rescue.
• Operates an emergency vehicle during both the day and night; in emergency and pursuit situations involving speeds in excess of posted limits while exercising due care and caution.

Skills

Police work knowledge

Laws & ordinances knowledge

First aid

Spatial orientation

Teamwork

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

The City of Dearborn Police Department is seeking entry-level police officers to protect life and property, prevent crime, and enforce laws and local ordinances. The role requires the ability to think quickly and act within legal guidelines, with training provided through the academy if needed.

Selected candidates progress through an extensive process including exams, assessments, and a field training program, with promotion opportunities as experience increases.