If you could be interested in living in Beckley, W. VA, you could get a nice bonus of $5K. To get Best Qualified for the position of Police Officer in Beckley, WV, you have to include the following skills and keywords in your federal resume. Since the description of the duties is rather lengthy, the best way to write your description of your relevant experience is to write a lengthy description that includes all of these skills.
The HR specialist who wrote the vacancy announcement gives this instruction about your federal resume: IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE ON YOUR RESUME, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE MAY NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s).
Job Title: Police Officer
Department: Department Of Veterans Affairs
Job Announcement Number: VHA-517-11-GM577206
Salary Range: $34K to $45K
Operation Period: Tues, Dec. 13, 2011 to Wed., Jan 4, 2012
Series and Grade: GS 0083-6
Duty Location: Beckley, W. Va.
$$ RECRUITMENT INCENTIVE: One-time $5,000 incentive with a 3-year employment contract for an applicant who is Law Enforcement Training Center certified at the time of application, job offer, and upon appointment. $$
DUTIES:
Ensure compliance with and enforce a full range of Federal, State, local laws, ordinances, rules and regulations as they pertain to law enforcement work. Arrest/apprehend individuals. Provide physical protection of patients, visitors, and employees. Preserve a peaceful environment necessary for medical treatment program operations. Protect United States Government and personal property on VA controlled property. Conduct foot and vehicle patrols. Provide directions/assistance to patients, volunteers, visitors, and employees. Respond to emergencies including crimes in progress or just discovered, disturbances, and assaults. Intercede in physical assaults in progress by stopping the aggressor in compliance with use of force policy/regulations to prevent the physical injury or death of others. Pursue and apprehend persons causing disturbances. Take charge of crime or accident scenes and detains witnesses or suspects as necessary. Transport arrested persons to detention facilities and perform required booking procedures. Fully investigate crimes which may extend beyond one duty shift. Interrogate suspects; take witness statements; collect, mark, identify, and preserve evidence. Prepare reports of investigations. Seek and detect signs of alcohol and drug abuse. Identify signs of trafficking alcohol, drugs and other activities involved in the introduction of contraband on VA controlled property. Check occupants of vehicles parked on grounds to ascertain legitimacy of presence. Perform searches and seizures. Establish surveillance operations. Respond to routine or emergency calls for assistance from other officers or acts as backup officer on these calls. Report fire and safety hazards and take immediate action to extinguish, to control fires and secure fire areas. Write Uniform Offense Reports covering incidents on his/her shift containing pertinent information which is factual, classified properly and timely. Issue citations for violations of the law, rules, or regulations. Assist victims of accidents or assaults by providing first aid and/or calling for medical assistance, or assist in transporting to a specific location for medical treatment. Testify in courts of law.
Keywords:
- Knowledge of full range of federal, state and regulations to law enforcement work.
- Arrest / apprehension of individuals
- Physical protection of patients, visitors and employees
- Intercede in physical assaults
- Take charge of crime of accident scenes
- Fully investigate crimes
- Interrogate suspects; take witness statements
- Prepare reports of investigations
- Investigate crimes, interrogate suspects, prepare reports of investigations
- Identify signs of trafficking alcohol
- Write Uniform Officer Reports
- Issue citations
- Assist victims of accidents
- Testify in courts of law
Specialized Experience Required: Experience that provided knowledge of a body of basic laws and regulations, law enforcement operations, practices, and techniques and involved responsibility for maintaining order and protecting life and property. Creditable specialized experience may have been gained in work on a police force; through service as a military police officer; in work providing visitor protection and law enforcement in parks, forests, or other natural resource or recreational environments; in performing criminal investigative duties; or in other work that provided the required knowledge and skills. No substitution of education or training may be made for the required specialized experience at GS-6 and above. For this position, specialized experience must be equivalent to at least the next lower grade level GS-5, or equivalent.
Keywords:
- Knowledge of basic laws and regulations
- Law enforcement operations, practices and techniques
- Maintain order and protecting life and property
- Military police officer
- Visitor protection and law enforcement in parks, forests
- Criminal investigative duties

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