Police Officer; Instructor

Position: Police Officer (Instructor)
The Dayton, Ohio VA Medical Center's VISN 10 Police Service is recruiting for a well-qualified Police Officer (Instructor). This position is located within the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration. The mission of the Police Service is to serve and protect Veterans, patients, employees, contractors, volunteers, affiliates, visitors, and others who frequent VA facilities.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

* Administers and coordinates the education and training program for a police department.

* Prepares training schedules, coordinates equipment, room availability, and dates and times for on-site training and off-campus drills.

* Conducts classroom lectures and presentations, role-playing scenarios, and skills demonstrations.

* Develops, presents, delivers, and coordinates courses for a training program.

* Changes training curriculum to fit the criteria focused on jurisdiction, level of experience and complications observed.

* Oversees the initial and on-the-job training of all newly assigned personnel.

* Explains work requirements, methods, and procedures, to include providing special instructions and answering technical questions about the work.

* Designates tasks necessary for new Police Officers to gain experience to do work.

* Evaluates employee performance to identify special or additional training requirements.

* Coordinates with Federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies regarding updates in police information, procedures, and legal decisions.

* Coordinates the use of guest instructors from various local and federal law enforcement agencies, and emergency/public service agencies.

* Serves as the Police Department representative when attending meetings and participating in committees.

* Makes suggestions and recommendations on curricula modifications based on observations and trends in the policing field.

* Protects individuals during any given situation against threats to personal safety when enforcing laws and regulations.

* Responds immediately to and engages potentially armed individuals during active threat

response situations.

* Deescalates situations and determines when and how much force must be applied.

* Responds to calls for police assistance.

* Performs vehicular patrols as required.

* Enforces laws, rules, regulations, and resolving violations/offenses.

* Searches and detains suspects.

* Advises individuals of their rights (Miranda, Weingarten, Garrity, etc.).

* Takes charge of emergencies and establishes operating procedures.

* Serves as an on-call point of contact to direct the Police Department during natural disasters,

terrorist acts, criminal activity, and other emergencies.

* Establishes safe perimeters, evacuates personnel, and assists with crowd control operations.

* Responds immediately to and engages potentially armed individuals during active threat

response situations.

Work Schedule:

10 hour shifts/ needs of service

Position Description Title/PD#:
Police Officer (Instructor)/PD99844S

Physical Requirements:

The work requires, on a regular and recurring basis, considerable and strenuous physical exertion such as frequent climbing of multiple flights of stairs, and carrying items weighing over 50 pounds. It requires stamina, physical agility, dexterity, and the strength to pursue, apprehend or detain.