Police Sergeant
On-siteYpsilanti, Michigan, United States
Ypsilanti, Michigan, United StatesOn-siteFull Time
Full Time
Job Summary
Supervise police officers and support staff during patrol shifts and special units, assigning work, evaluating performance, and mediating conflicts. Direct tactical operations at unusual occurrences, enforce laws and ordinances, and coordinate actions with other city departments and the Metro Communications Center. Conduct investigations, manage property, and oversee training needs while ensuring compliance with departmental policies and safety procedures. Monitor calls for service, operate police vehicles and equipment, and prepare incident reports and logs.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 5 years of policing and/or command experience
- Thorough knowledge of supervisory practices and procedures
- Methods for providing feedback to employees
- Motivating and disciplining employees
- Basic counseling and employee interviewing techniques
- Leadership styles and methods of becoming an effective leader
- Appropriate evaluation methods
- Common rating errors
- Laws, statutes, ordinances, and court decisions and their interpretations
- Departmental rules, regulations, policies, and procedures
- Civil Service Rules
- Labor Agreements affecting city employees
- Officer safety and liability concerns
- Departmental resources and general community resources
- Ability to organize, prioritize, schedule, assign, and delegate work
- Enforce departmental rules, regulations, policies, procedures, and objectives fairly and uniformly
- Identify training needs and develop, provide, and evaluate training
- Work under stressful emergency situations
- Communicate effectively with individuals from various socioeconomic, ethnic, and culturally diverse backgrounds in a variety of situations
- Give and follow oral instructions in normal and stressful situations
- Give and follow written instructions
- Write clearly, accurately, and concisely, using appropriate spelling, grammar, and vocabulary
- Speak distinctly enough to be understood when giving verbal instructions and responding to questions in person or over the telephone and radio
- Actively listen and comprehend what is heard
- Use appropriate interpersonal styles and methods in guiding individuals and groups toward task accomplishment
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with superiors, peers, and subordinates
- Analyze situations, people, and data in order to apply appropriate knowledge
- Exercise tact, self-restraint, compassion, and judgment in dealing with a variety of people in stressful and non-stressful situations
- Defend self and others from combatant individuals
- Qualify with department approved weapons
- Use persuasion and deal effectively with persons in differing emotional states
- Maintain confidentiality
- Observe, assimilate, and recall pertinent facts and details of a broad range of situations
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