Police Officer

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• Position Type:
  Police Department & Security
• Date Posted: 9/4/2026
• Location:
  
  Police Department
• Date Available:
  
  As soon as possible
• Closing Date: 09/11/2026

Please note that this posting closes at 3:00 pm on the date listed above. If you have questions regarding this position, please contact Lt. Jeromy Orton, at  or email jorton. Hours per week:
Up to 29

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily, with or without reasonable accommodations. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, training, education, responsibilities, abilities; the machines, tools and equipment used; background; and any licenses or certifications required. Physical, punctual, reliable, and predictable regular attendance is an essential job function to perform the essential duties and responsibilities of the position.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Job Summary Duties include the prevention and/or detection of criminal activity and the general enforcement of city, county, state and federal laws and ordinances, along with Granite School District policies and procedures, involving any student, teacher, staff, administrator, patron or property of the school district. Police officers routinely patrol the properties of the school district and serve as School Resources Officers.

They respond on silent burglar/fire alarms, dispatched crimes in-progress and calls for service of a police nature. Maintains a clean, safe, healthy, and secure educational environment for the Granite School District. Attendance, physical presence, and timeliness are required and are essential functions of this position.

Essential Functions

• Routinely inspects district facilities to prevent and/or detect acts of vandalism, burglary, arson, theft, assault, trespass, alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug consumption, weapons offenses, gang violence and various other unusual or unlawful activities.
• Responds to emergency calls for service, including crimes-in-progress, and various bodily injury situations.
• Responds to all dispatched, silent burglar alarms located on all district facilities in assigned patrol area.
• Inspects the facility for evidence of forced entry and assesses the need to call for additional officers and/or K-9 units, to assist in searching the building for suspects.
• Responds to all fire alarms, located on district facilities with-in assigned patrol area, along with the appropriate city and/or county fire departments.
• Apprehends and arrests suspects involved in all types of criminal activities and, where applicable, transports same to appropriate incarceration facilities for formal booking.
• Enforces all city, county, state and federal laws and ordinances, as well as district rules and policies, pertaining to school district properties and personnel.
• Responds to after-hour and weekend or holiday emergency calls for district maintenance services in assigned patrol area.
• Assesses the nature of the problem and has dispatch call out appropriate maintenance personnel and equipment.
• Actively patrols district facilities, school grounds and parking lots, as well as neighboring businesses and subdivisions, in search of truants, trespassers and lost or missing persons.
• Works with school staff to either return the…