Police Patrol Officer
- Serve your community by maintaining safety and enforcing laws.
- Make a real impact by protecting lives and ensuring public order.
- Experience diverse challenges, from traffic control to crime investigation.
💰 Earn $91K-$135K
📚 High School Diploma or GED
Overview
Maintain order and protect life and property by enforcing local, tribal, state, or federal laws and ordinances. Perform a combination of the following duties: patrol a specific area; direct traffic; issue traffic summonses; investigate accidents; apprehend and arrest suspects, or serve legal processes of courts. Includes police officers working at educational institutions.Scoop
High School Diploma or GED
Good (Increasing by 1-5%)
Day-to-Day
- Identify, pursue, and arrest suspects and perpetrators of criminal acts.
- Provide for public safety by maintaining order, responding to emergencies, protecting people and property, enforcing motor vehicle and criminal laws, and promoting good community relations.
- Record facts to prepare reports that document incidents and activities.
- Render aid to accident victims and other persons requiring first aid for physical injuries.
- Review facts of incidents to determine if criminal act or statute violations were involved.
Best For You If...
YOU Like 💕
- Influencing or leading others
- Working with my hands
- Relating with or serving others
You are skilled in 💫
- Service Orientation
- Critical Thinking
- Speaking
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
- Monitoring
You value 🙏
- Having support
- Accomplishing things
- Having freedom
In Action
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Police Patrol Officer
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Pathways to this Career
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