Police Officer

Job Summary :

Job Description

Essential Responsibilities:

1. Respond to and take charge of all matters and incidents requiring police intervention on HRH property during the Officers shift.

2. Adhere to and enforce and/or report violations of Indiana Law or hospital policies and procedures through chain of command.

3. Enforce applicable Indiana State Law pertaining to criminal and traffic statutes, to include 24-hour Immediate Detentions.

4. Conduct tours and make regular foot and/or vehicle patrols in HRH hospital buildings and around the hospital grounds, including all offsites and parking lots.

5. Monitor and protect all HRH buildings, the staff, patients and guests and their property from theft, vandalism, or other wrongful acts; investigating situations and taking enforcement action as necessary.

6. Be familiar with the physical layout off all hospital campuses and be able to conduct security checks or respond to calls for service from those facilities.

7. Respond to all alarms, including HUGS, fire, intrusion, or panic.

8. Submit items to lost and found as necessary, completing all entries as soon as practicable.

9. Complete thorough reports on Track Tik which accurately document activities during their shift, including the use of pictures where possible.

10. Report any emergency facility problems and follow-up on matters where warranted to be sure assistance on way or at scene.

11. Report law enforcement or security emergencies as soon as practicable to the Police Chief and House Supervisor.

12. Contact the Hendricks County Communications Center (HCCC) to summon back up for any matter requiring it from the appropriate police jurisdiction.

13. Enforce hospital parking policies as described in departmental procedures, issuing parking violations and towing when necessary.

14. Look for unsafe conditions and report findings as necessary to appropriate persons.

15. Assist in enforcing hospital key control.

16. Escort visitors and associates to and from parking areas as requested.

17. Review and stay current on all applicable departmental procedures.

18. Escort patients as requested by the medical staff and assist law enforcement officers in accordance with hospital policies.

19. Maintain communication with the Prosecutors Office on arrestees and charges.

20. Process crime scenes for evidence.

21. Conduct searches of persons and vehicles with probable cause and as necessary or according to HRH policy.

22. Make arrests as necessary.

23. Receive and document all evidence according to policy and maintain chain of custody of all evidence during its storage.

24. Draft thorough and complete probable cause affidavits on all arrests, including all supporting documentation.

25. Conduct thorough investigations on all matters whether in person, via phone or on video in the performance of duty.

26. Required to communicate with and testify in Court whenever summoned and dress in his distinctive uniform or business attire while testifying.

27. Investigate all vehicle crashes that occur on HRH property.

28. While investigating crashes, shall process crash scenes for evidence and document his findings on the state crash reporting forms and on Track Tik, including photographing crash scenes.

29. Interview witnesses as necessary.

30. Interrogate suspects as necessary, recording the interrogation and documenting findings on the Police Officers Track Tik report.

31. Required to draft and submit for subpoenas as required by duty and deliver subpoenas as necessary.

32. Attend regular and state mandated training as requested.

33. Cooperate with other Law Enforcement agencies through criminal or safety information sharing.

34. Manage the release of information to staff and media through the HRH Marketing Department and will not speak with the media directly, unless directed to do so.

35. Recognize, respond to and document all breeches of the law that occur in his presence.

36. Conduct traffic stops for traffic statute violations or HRH policy violations occurring in his presence on HRH property.

37. Maintain peace and order on HRH grounds and de-escalate violent and aggressive behavior when encountered and possible.

38. Assist and control VIP/Crowd incidents as needed.

39. Properly use and communicate via police radio.

40. Obey the laws of the State of Indiana and HRH policy in the application of force used to make an arrest or for medical situations the Officer is involved in.

41. Prepared to use force to effect an arrest or terminate aggressive or life-threatening actions, up to and including the use of deadly force.

42. Document all uses of force during the Officers patrol shift on Track Tik and notify the Chief of Police and house…