Community Services Officer

The City of Woodland is strategically located in California’s Sacramento Valley, one of the world’s richest agricultural areas. The City has a population of over 60,000 while maintaining it small town appeal, and is the County seat of Yolo County. Woodland is approximately 85 miles northeast of San Francisco and 24 miles northwest of Sacramento, the State Capitol. The City is ideally positioned along Interstate 5 and is also serviced by the Sacramento International Airport, 12 miles to the east.

Known as the “City of Trees”, Woodland has 176 acres of parks with a wide variety of athletic fields, which host a myriad of year-round sports activities for youth and adults. The surrounding area offers water skiing and boating on Sacramento River, Lake Berryessa, and Folsom Lake. Winters can be enjoyed skiing at the many fine resorts in the Lake Tahoe area.

Woodland is a full-service City and includes the departments of Public Works, Community Development, Finance, Human Resources, Police, Fire, Community Services, Public Library and the City Manager’s and City Clerk’s Office. In order to maintain a high level of service to our diverse community, the City of Woodland is looking for motivated and qualified applicants to join our current staff of 323 employees, 165 classifications City wide.

The City offers a wide variety of positions with room for advancement.

Please consider the City of Woodland in your future career.

The City of Woodland offers a competitive total compensation package including:

• Starting income ranging from $4,823.53 to $6,156.18 per month based on skills, training, certifications and years of experience, with regular, incremental pay increases
• Robust Retirement Program including CalPERS Retirement Plan, Retirement Health Savings Plan, and choice of 457 Deferred Compensation plans
• Low-Cost & No-Cost Health Benefits, including choice of CalPERS Medical plans, and City-paid Dental Insurance, Vision insurance and Employee Assistance Program
• Salary incentives and add-ons, including bilingual, certificate and shift-differential pay, as well as paid holiday-in-lieu
• Paid Career Development
  , including City-provided training & professional advancement opportunities

To perform a variety of routine, non-hazardous and non-sworn law enforcement office and field work. The purpose of this recruitment is to fill a current vacancy in the Woodland Police Department, as well as establish an eligibility list for future vacancies.

The Ideal Candidate will have experience working in a law enforcement agency and/or have substantial professional experience with public interactions. Candidate will be a self-starter who can work with limited supervision. The Ideal Candidate will work well as a member of a team, be well organized and have substantial report writing experience.

Investigate routine crimes and prepare appropriate reports. Assist with abandoned vehicle abatement. Assist in special traffic control. Respond to non-criminal calls for service. Operate telephone and radio equipment. Assist in crime scene identification activities. Assist in collection, preservation and transportation of evidence. Maintain accurate chain of custody records. Inventory and release of evidence and property. Prepare property for auction. Purge of files.

Perform Parking Enforcement function. Report damaged or inoperative traffic signals, signs and markings. Advise the general public on parking laws, regulations and ordinances. Receive complaints regarding parking citations. Mark vehicles reported as abandoned and conduct follow-up, including towing and storing of vehicle. Keep records and prepare reports. Enforce non-moving vehicle code violations and city ordinances pertaining to vehicles. Perform general clerical duties using typewriter and word processing.

Receive calls and take messages. Prepare monthly statistical reports. Retrieve and input data into computer terminal. Prepare correspondence to victims of crime. Provide clerical assistance to detectives. Process reports assigned to detectives. Process court ordered registrants. Collect pertinent data from police reports and input…