Police Report Technician

The City of Overland Park has a full-time Police Report Technician position available in the Police Department.

Receives and completes police report requests from citizens and outside agencies. Provides customer service for walk-in station inquiries. Performs a wide variety of support and clerical duties within the Police Department. Collects cash or credit card fees for various police services. Performs fingerprinting tasks for citizens. Accesses confidential and secure websites and databases to complete police record inquiries, entries, deletions, and research.

Testifies in court. Requires the ability to apply technical judgement to produce meticulous and consistent results in complex situations and while under pressure. Requires accountability to provide detailed documentation through various software applications. Work can be fast paced, requires attention to detail and physically demanding at times.

• Receives and completes police report requests from citizens in-person, by telephone or online. Assists citizens in determining the appropriate report and completing the report correctly. Enters all police reports into the records management system used by the Police Department.
• Monitors and communicates via police radio transmissions to provide assistance as requested.
• Provides customer service for walk-in Station inquiries and responds appropriately to questions, citizen requests, or provides other appropriate direction. Determines which service is appropriate and provides correct forms for completion. Maintains a log of visitors, provides badges, and notifies appropriate personnel of visitors.
• Performs a wide variety of support duties such as delivers documents and papers within Police department, copies and delivers various reports, answers telephones, sorts and delivers mail, alpha and numeric filing, and stocks supplies. Maintains an adequate supply of DUI and other printed forms located in the report writing and booking areas.
• Inputs and retrieve data from mobile data terminal. Reads and deceivers information on computer screens.
• Assists Johnson County Adult Detention Center by completing paperwork for and serving arrest warrants via fax.
• Performs radio communication skills. Communicates effectively with dispatch, supervisors and officers.
• Performs non-radio verbal communications. Must be capable of communicating effectively in the English language during duty situations to include but not limited to responding to general questions from the public, clarifying information on tickets and establishing professional rapport with the community.
• Monitors building security via current video system and reports any concerning activity around the building or in the booking area.
• Performs fingerprinting services for Overland Park Citizens. Ensures quality of resulting fingerprints complies with KBI requirements. Performs general maintenance of the fingerprint machines and purges files as necessary.
• Accesses confidential and secure websites and databases (REJIS, NCIC, DOR, and KDOR) to complete police record inquiries, entries, deletions, and research. Enters and removes stolen article entries when appropriate.
• Operates complex computer systems including but not limited to COPLOGIC, Police Records Management Systems (RMS), Intergraph I/Netviewer, Mobile for Public Safety (MPS), COPLINK, REJIS, JIMS, and Live Scan.
• Court preparation and testimony. Meets with prosecutors to clarify facts prior to trial; responds to questions from prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges; marks and packages evidence appropriately; reviews case reports and evidence prior to trial; recognizes physical evidence and persons during testimony; understands and applies legal principles;…