Police Services Technician

Police Community Service And Evidence Technician

Under general supervision, the Police Community Service and Evidence Technician are responsible for relieving sworn police officers from various non-hazardous tasks and responding to service calls of a non-felonious and non-violent nature, assisting with crime scene processing and records management, courier duties, and traffic-related duties. The job entails frequent contact with the public and other law enforcement agencies, requiring responses to various procedural questions, seeking information, testifying in court proceedings, and maintaining confidentiality regarding sensitive information.

The Police Service and Evidence Technician is also responsible for preparing and maintaining clear, concise, and comprehensive criminal and non-criminal reports and performing code enforcement duties, conducting vehicle abatement and parking enforcement, and/or performing a variety of property and evidence duties, including receiving, securing, safeguarding, preserving, and disposing of property and evidence items in the Police Department. Receives general supervision from the Administrative Sergeant.

Essential and other important responsibilities and duties may include but are not limited to the following:

• Receives, logs, stores, and maintains property and evidence in accordance with Department procedures; transports evidence for forensic examination; maintains evidence rooms in an organized condition.
• Verifies inventories of evidence and property received and/or confiscated by the Police Department.
• Review evidence and analysis forms for errors and omissions and assist with corrections.
• Determines purge dates for property and evidence; releases or disposes of property and evidence in accordance with applicable laws and court orders; prepares and sends letters to property owners for the claim; releases property to the rightful owner; prepares surplus and unclaimed property for disposal or auction.
• Prepares property and evidence for court trials; releases property to authorized persons; tracks chain of custody of evidence items; testifies in court regarding evidence chain of custody.
• Assists in determining evidence analysis requirements; provides training in proper evidence and packaging procedures.
• Reviews and files photographic evidence.
• Respond to outside agency requests for evidence, status, and chain of custody.
• Prepares a variety of property and evidence reports.
• Assists in other police service support work.
• Establishes and maintains inventory systems.
• Performs related duties as required.
• Take crime reports from the public when there is no suspect information and when officers are not available.
• Patrol assigned routes to enforce parking and related traffic ordinances; mark vehicles in timed parking areas; issue citations; write warnings and amendments to previously issued citations.
• Provide customer assistance at the front counter and on the telephone with duties including but not limited to completing reports as appropriate, collecting fees, and responding to inquiries and requests for information with appropriate information.
• Complete specifically delineated types of reports in the field and office
• Provide general administrative and clerical and receptionist assistance as necessary and directed; distribute internal mail and legal documents; transport reports, documents, and evidence as directed between public agencies; perform miscellaneous errands as necessary and directed.
• Perform Live Scan electronic fingerprinting as scheduled and directed.
• Processing, booking, storing, tracking/cataloging, and transporting property and evidence as directed.
• Assist with the transportation of police vehicles and ensure they have appropriate and necessary equipment as directed.
• Assist with traffic and pedestrian control at special events.
• As appropriate and directed, assist with special enforcement events, such as DUI checkpoints and deployment of radar trailers.
• Forward information regarding unpaid parking violation citations to the appropriate department to be submitted to the Department of Motor Vehicles and/or a designated parking violation citation administration contract…