Police Officer

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Position Title: Police Officer

Job Category: University Staff

Employment Type: Regular

Job Profile: Police Officer I

The UW‑Green Bay Police Department is committed to exceptional service and policing excellence. We invest in our people by recruiting talented officers and developing them through continuous professional development, real‑world experience, and strong partnerships with university departments and our Brown County law enforcement counterparts. The result is a team of confident, competent professionals who are ready to serve a campus community of over 11,000 students, faculty, and staff across all UW‑Green Bay locations.

As a Police Officer with our department, you will protect life and property, maintain order, investigate incidents, deter criminal activity, and provide safety education, all while building the collaborative partnerships that make a university community thrive. This role directly supports UW‑Green Bay's strategic commitment to student success by ensuring every person on our campus feels safe, valued, and supported.

We are looking for officers who embody our core values of Respect, Integrity, Service, and Excellence (RISE) and who are ready to contribute to UW‑Green Bay's mission of advancing fearlessly, empowering success, and building a diverse and sustainable community. If you're the kind of officer who sees policing as a profession worth doing well, not just a job, we want to hear from you.

• Provides personal safety and crime prevention education to the institutional community.
• Ensures the safe and orderly flow of traffic on institutional roadways and enforces traffic laws.
• Provides protection of life, property, and the preservation of peace and good order, and provides emergency aid to the institutional community.
• Performs preliminary and follow‑up investigations to solve crimes, identify suspects and victims, apprehend criminals, and document case information.
• Engages in problem solving, threat mitigation, and conflict resolution for a wide range of issues and incidents involving citizens, groups, campus entities, government agencies, businesses, leaders, and others.

• Possess a valid Wisconsin driver's license upon appointment or be eligible to obtain one.
• Successfully complete a Wisconsin Department of Justice approved "Law Enforcement Recruit" training course or already be certified by the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Standards Board (LESB) as a Law Enforcement Officer.
• No record of an unpardoned adult felony conviction and no convictions for domestic violence.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• Prior law enforcement experience.
• Experience working in higher education.

• Ability to maintain the strength, stamina, dexterity, and overall physical fitness required for the performance of duties.
• Ability to be on foot for ten or more hours.
• Possess the ability to take defensive measures in the event of a physical assault.

• Considerable knowledge of the Constitution of the United States of America, Wisconsin State Statutes, Wisconsin Administrative codes, University and department rules, policies, and procedures.
• Considerable knowledge of investigative methods and techniques, proper preparation of all reports and forms.
• Ability to observe and recall facts and details about persons, events, accident scenes, physical conditions, and human behaviors.
• Knowledge and skill in defense and arrest tactics, emergency vehicle operation, use of force, crowd control techniques, and assigned equipment techniques.
• Ability to communicate with clear and concise speech at all times, including in extremely stressful and non‑stressful situations.
• Above‑average abilities in multitasking; including the ability to perform a physical task while appropriately processing verbal or written information.
• Excellent judgment including sensitivity to personal and confidential information.
• Knowledge of crime prevention…