Police Captain

Police Captain

Mass Bay Community College

Department: VP Finance

Location: Wellesley Hills/Framingham

Mass Bay fosters educational excellence and academic success to prepare students for local and global citizenship, to meet critical workforce demands of communities, and to contribute to the region's economic development.

Massachusetts Bay Community College values diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. We strongly encourage members of underrepresented communities to apply to join our community.

Located in Greater Boston, Mass Bay is a comprehensive, open-access community college offering associate degrees and certificate programs on three campuses in Wellesley Hills, Framingham, and Ashland, Massachusetts.

The ideal candidate will join a vibrant and inclusive educational community and have a desire and ability to work with a diverse population. The Police Captain is responsible for the oversight of all Police, Security and Life Safety operations on all of the Mass Bay Campuses as delegated and assigned by the Chief of Police. The Police Captain is responsible for business management including police, security, compliance, communications, and technology.

This will include operational and administrative duties that are required by law, ordinance, the Board of Higher Education, and moral obligation, in order to ensure that all people and property are adequately protected by the Mass Bay Public Safety Department.

• Administer campus police and security operations, communications, incident investigation, crime prevention, life safety, and scheduling of proper personnel during both routine and special events on all campuses;
• Work closely with State, Municipal, and other Colleges to develop and maintain relationships that will allow the Mass Bay Public Safety Department to provide appropriate level of service to the community during both routine and critical incidents;
• Attend appropriate meetings and trainings with professional development organizations to keep current with best practices in campus law enforcement;
• Maintain community involvement and confidence with Public Safety by promoting regular contact with the community utilizing community policing concepts;
• Assist in and perform college wide public safety, including policy and procedure, and oversight of college operations to ensure compliance with a variety of rules, regulations, acts and laws;
• Participate in the physical safety and security of facilities, grounds, and persons;
• Assist in the supervision, operation, policies, maintenance, emergency notification systems, burglar alarm systems and CCTV systems;
• Facilitate required in-service training, medical training, and re-certification training;
• Manage the field training program and assist in selection of appropriate candidates for public safety officer positions;
• Participate in the supervision of college-wide campus police post assignments and coverage; make recommendations and/or assignments as appropriate;
• Manage the department time records, supervise payroll and leave input, review leave requests, determines schedules and overtime needs;
• Monitor the department budget;
• Direct enforcement of College rules and regulations, Massachusetts General Laws, and the Constitution of Massachusetts and the United States of America;
• Perform college wide crime prevention, detection & apprehension/arrest of criminal violators, criminal investigations, criminal court prosecutions at both the District and Superior Court levels, cooperate with the Dean of Students Office on issues of student misconduct and discipline;
• Participate as directed to act as a liaison to local, state and federal public safety agencies and officials for campus security issues, which may include public speaking;
• Oversight of police reports, College Emergency Telephone Response Network (Equivalent of E911 System), college wide police radio systems, NCIC/CJIS computer system, and other wireless communications systems, and department training and supervision. Oversight of public safety officer's adherence to Clery, required State Police felony reports, and daily log requirements;
• Perform oversight of motor…