Park Ranger

Description

Join Metroparks Toledo as a Park Ranger. In this role, you keep our parks safe and protect our natural resources. You’re the friendly face at our parks through positive interactions with people on a daily basis. You’ll combine traditional traffic and criminal law with community oriented policing and crime prevention to ensure we maintain our “Clean, Safe, and Natural” promise.

No two days are the same. You set your routine based on our department goals to keep our parks safe. You might be patrolling a park trail on a bike, engaging with park visitors, or participating in a community outreach program.

• Work outside in our beautiful Metroparks. Patrol in multiple ways – vehicles, bicycles, ATVs, on foot.
• Known schedule (4 10s, 3 days off weekly) so you can plan your life outside of work.
• Proactively create your daily activities rather than respond to a large call load.
• Competitive pay, health care, retirement, and time off. Read more here.
• Grow your career on a special assignment or develop to become Sergeant.

• You want to combine traditional traffic and criminal law with community oriented policing and crime prevention.
• You want to build relationships with our park visitors and interact with people in a positive way on a daily basis.
• You care deeply about preserving the natural resources in our parks for future generations.

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Serve as law enforcement officer to assure the public’s safety, protection and enjoyment. Responsible for maintaining law and order, investigating crimes, and protecting life and property at Metroparks Toledo.

• Patrols Metroparks to preserve the peace and enforce the law, control vehicular traffic prevent or detect and investigate misconduct involving misdemeanors, felonies and other law violations' and to otherwise serve and protect.
• Patrol a designated area in a motor vehicle, bicycle and/or on foot; prevent and discover the commission of crimes, direct and enforce traffic, parking, and laws, administer medical assistance, check for safety hazards, answer calls and complaints, check security of buildings, and investigate accidents. Take corrective action as needed.
• At the scene of a crime or accident, initiate department procedures as relates to: emergency medical care, investigation, witnesses, site inspections, gathering and maintenance of evidence and arrests.
• Conducts investigations of crimes committed during assigned shift and performs follow up investigations as needed.
• Make arrests, escort suspects from the crime scene, and prepare detailed reports.
• Give advice, assistance, and general information to the public.
• Answer all emergency and non-emergency calls for service.
• Attend assigned training classes and programs.
• Analyzes and evaluates evidence. Prepares cases for giving testimony and testifies in court proceedings.
• Obtain working knowledge of, and acquire the needed skills to enter and retrieve data for both in car mobile data terminals and in-house computer systems.
• Make daily checks of equipment to ascertain that they are in proper working condition.
• Serve in special assignment roles such as firearms instructor, detective, public information officer, or defensive tactics instructor, as assigned.
• Carry out any lawful order or duty as prescribed by the Chief or other supervisor.
• Perform outreach programs.
• Ensure effective communication and working relationships between external departments and organizations.
• Assist other law enforcement agencies through mutual aid.
• Promote cross departmental communications and objectives.
• Maintains a professional appearance to include grooming, uniforms and vehicles
• Maintains all departmental equipment and work areas to highest professional standards.
• Open and close parks; lock and alarm all buildings and facilities.
• Undertakes community oriented police work, and assists citizens with such matters as locked or stalled vehicles, crime prevention, traffic safety, etc.
• Assist with river rescues.
• Respond to animal and wildlife calls; enforce fish and wildlife regulations to ensure protection of…