POLICE LIEUTENANT, HUMAN SERVICES

Official job specification

The text below is the official specification published by the New Jersey Civil Service Commission. The plain-language summary and analysis above are derived from it by NJ Civil Service Navigator. Source: the official specification page at NJ CSC.

Examples of work

• Assigns, instructs and supervises the work of Police Officers and Police Sergeants in an assigned area. Provides advice and assistance when difficult problems arise and checks their work to see that proper procedures are followed, reasonable standards of workmanship, conduct, and output are maintained and that desired police objectives are achieved.
• Supervises the work operations and/or functional programs and has responsibility for evaluating employee performance and effectively recommending the hiring, firing, promoting, demoting, and/or disciplining of employees.
• Directs criminal and non-criminal investigations and ensures appropriate police action is taken. Oversees all assignments to ensure compliance with directives, rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
• Patrols facilities to observe subordinates on duty and to assist in police activities; conducts daily and weekly inspections, as required.
• May take and file fingerprints; may be required to maintain a desk blotter, arrest book and a property book.
• Develops and maintains liaison activities with authorities and civil groups interested or involved in the application and maintenance of police and security measures and activities.
• Performs analysis of district operations and activities in order to ensure the most effective use of funds, personnel, resources, equipment and supplies.
• Apprehends, warns, or takes into custody violators of the law; makes thorough investigations and prepares appropriate reports on the police action taken; prepares and presents detailed testimony in court and at hearings.
• Maintains liaison with local authorities and civic groups in the vicinity of institutions within a given district in order to communicate and facilitate the accomplishment of institutional goals and objectives.
• Supervises the provision of police protection when large sums of money are in transit, in the event of fires, outbreaks, and other conditions, which might result in disaster, and ensures smooth traffic flow in congested areas.
• Prepares and directs the preparation of police, security reports and correspondence.
• Directs the establishment of essential records and files.
• May be required to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office or related units.

Education

Graduation from High School, or Vocational High School, or possession of an approved High School Equivalent Certificate.

Experience

Three (3) years of full-time supervisory police experience in a law enforcement agency.

License

Appointee will be required to possess a driver's license valid in New Jersey only if the operation of a vehicle, rather than employee mobility, is necessary to perform the essential duties of the position.

<b>SPECIAL QUALIFICATIONS</b>

Applicants may be required to pass a medical examination given by the Appointing Authority prior to appointment.

Appointees must have satisfactorily completed a police training course approved by the Police Training Commission.

Appointees will be required to be free of any disqualifications for appointment as a Police Officer, per N.J.S.A. 2C: et seq. and N.J.S.A. 30:4-14.

Knowledge, skills and abilities

• Knowledge of the proper police procedures to be used in dealing with people and in safeguarding buildings and property.
• Knowledge of the problems involved in following established procedures embodied in police rules and regulations.
• Knowledge of maintaining order in buildings and on facility grounds and in areas where a large volume of people congregate and in controlling and regulating vehicular traffic to assure safety, reasonably rapid movement to traffic with a minimum of interference.
• Ability to acquire wide knowledge of the laws and rules and regulations which are significant from the police point of view.
• Knowledge of the methods likely to be useful in providing citizens and others with proper police information, service and protection.
• Knowledge of the methods of detecting, apprehending, placing charges, safeguarding and prosecuting lawbreakers.
• Knowledge of the problems and procedures, involved in providing police protection at places and times when it is needed.
• Knowledge of the measures likely to be useful in dealing with juveniles in such a manner as to enlist their support and minimize the types of behavior which may result in juvenile delinquency.
• Ability to acquire wide knowledge of the types of useful and feasible police communication.
• Ability to comprehend, analyze, interpret and apply to specific situations laws, local ordinance and Department rules, regulations, policies and procedures.
• Ability to organize the police work in such a manner as to provide needed services and protection and to make effective use of funds, personnel, equipment and quarters.
• Ability to give suitable assignments and instructions to members of the Police Department, provide them with needed advice and assistance when difficult and unusual problems arise and check their work to see that proper procedures are followed, that reasonable standards of workmanship, conduct and output are maintained and that desired police objectives are achieved.
• Ability to take the lead in establishing and maintaining helpful and cooperative relationships with individuals and groups interested in the maintenance of law and order and to make certain that members of the force treat citizens and others with uniform courtesy and consideration and provide them with proper information and police services.
• Ability to provide the Police Officers with direction and assistance necessary to assure the orderly handling of traffic.
• Ability to supervise the investigation and disposition of complaints, to direct the police activities necessary in keeping good order at places where people assemble in large numbers.
• Ability to see that children are provided with the assistance and protection they need.
• Ability to prepare and supervise the preparation of clear, sound, accurate and informative police reports.
• Ability to direct the establishment and maintenance of needed police records and files.
• Ability to learn to utilize various types of electronic and/or manual recording and information systems used by the agency, office or related units.
• Ability to read, write, speak, understand, or communicate in English sufficiently to perform the duties of this position. American Sign Language or Braille may also be considered as acceptable forms of communication.
• Persons with mental or physical disabilities are eligible as long as they can perform essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. If the accommodation cannot be made because it would cause the employer undue hardship, such persons may not be eligible

Note

The examples of work for this title are for illustrative purposes only. A particular position using this title may not perform all duties listed in this job specification. Conversely, all duties performed on the job may not be listed.

Appointees to this position must successfully qualify semi-annually in the use of firearms.