Supervisory Police Officer

Job Title

Major Duties:

• Provides leadership and guidance to subordinate supervisors and managers in implementing policies, procedures, and directives of senior management.
• Oversees and evaluates supervisory practices to ensure consistency, equity, and compliance across the organization.
• Reviews and approves recommendations for selections, promotions, details, and reassignments, ensuring alignment with mission requirements and workforce planning objectives.
• Establishes and interprets performance standards for organizational units and ensures subordinate supervisors effectively communicate expectations and provide feedback to their teams.
• Evaluates the performance of subordinate supervisors and ensures fair and consistent application of rating techniques throughout the division.
• Approves or recommends awards and pay actions within delegated authority.
• Addresses complex employee relations issues elevated by subordinate supervisors and refers unresolved matters to higher management when necessary.
• Provides direction on corrective actions for performance or conduct issues and reviews proposed disciplinary measures for appropriateness and compliance.
• Identifies organizational training needs and ensures supervisors facilitate employee development opportunities to maintain and enhance workforce capabilities.
• Approves leave policies and schedules at the organizational level to ensure adequate coverage during peak workloads and holiday periods.
• Enforces all federal, state, and local laws pertaining to violations on government property and federally controlled assets.
• Preserves the peace, prevents crimes, arrests offenders, and provides police assistance during emergency and/or life-threatening situations.
• Pursues and apprehends persons fleeing a crime scene or attempting to resist arrest.
• Engages in the hot pursuit of a fleeing felon and may leave jurisdictional boundaries to conduct investigations.
• Apprehends wanted persons who are accused of crimes in other jurisdictions; stops, questions, and detains such persons and notifies the appropriate law enforcement or judicial agencies.
• Conducts investigations; requires and receives information relating to criminal offenses; serves and executes search and arrest warrants; serves subpoenas and summonses; administers oaths; makes arrests without warrant; takes actions to preserve the peace while protecting the federal government facilities and personnel; bears firearms and performs other activities in accordance with Title 38, United States Code, Sections 901 and 902.
• Serves as a member of a Crisis Intervention Team, responding to and recognizing Veterans experiencing mental health crisis, utilizing advanced de-escalation strategies and knowledge of VA resources to ensure the best possible outcome for our nation's Veterans.
• Liaisons with other federal, state, and local public safety agencies to conduct training and communication networks to increase the effectiveness of Veteran Centric Policing models.
• Conducts inspections of federal VA facilities and worksites for compliance with VA physical security requirements.
• Performs inspections of physical security countermeasures to include electronic access control systems, CCTV Systems, Intrusion Alarms, Duress Alarms, and other systems. Assists with Vulnerability Assessments, as well as Physical Security Surveys.
• Analyzes problems, determines deficiencies, finalizes inspection results to include draft, review, editing, and evaluation, and takes corrective action.
• Prepares a report of findings, providing detailed conclusions and recommendations for program deficiencies, improvements, corrections of irregularities, and rectification of injustices revealed by inspections.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Designated Drug-Testing Position: Applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA. Applicants will not be appointed to the position if a verified positive drug test result is received.

Work Schedule: Compressed/Flexible Schedule. Candidates must be willing to work weekends, irregular work hours and extended hours if determined by the needs of the service. Furthermore, candidates must be willing to be placed, detailed, or temporarily assigned to other related services and/or locations, if necessary.

Compressed/Flexible: May be available.

Relocation/Recruitment Incentive: Not Authorized