Skills:
1. Perform law enforcement armed uniformed patrol functions in assigned areas including city streets on and around campus on foot or bicycle, and occasionally in an emergency motor vehicle, which include such things as working rotating shifts over 12 hours a day including nights and weekends, physically checking doors and windows of buildings, identifying suspicious activities, violations of criminal laws or university rules and regulations, and initiating corrective action or enforcement. 2. Pursue fleeing suspects, make legal arrests, forcibly if necessary, using handcuffs and other restraints. Subdue resisting suspects using approved maneuvers and weapons while strictly adhering to the department's use of force and continuum of force policy. 3. Load and unload, aim and fire, from a variety of body positions handguns, shotguns, and other departmental firearms, under conditions of stress that justify the use of deadly force at levels of proficiency prescribed by the department and La. POST council. 4. Respond to the scene of crimes, accidents, fires and calls for service; administer first aid, search for, preserve, and collect evidence; investigate and interview victims, witnesses, and potential suspects; conduct appropriate investigative functions at the scene, as necessary; asses variety of routine and critical public safety incidents acting quickly and thinking clearly utilizing mental capacity allowing the capability of exercising sound judgment and rational thinking under dangerous and stressful conditions. 5. Prepare preliminary investigative and other reports necessary for documenting an incident using the appropriate grammar and mathematical computations. 6. Exercise correct judgment in determining when there is reasonable suspicion to detain, whether or not probable cause exists to search and arrest, and when force may be used and to what degree. 7. Communicate effectively and coherently over police radio channels, telephones, public address systems, or by direct conversation. Must be able to maintain strict confidentiality. 8. The ability to read, write, and comprehend legal and non-legal documents written in the English language, including the preparation and processing of such documents. 9. Perform legal searches of people, arrestees, vehicles, buildings, and large outdoor areas, which may involve detecting objects or substances through feeling, sight, hearing, and smell. 10. Must have the ability to respond and assess situations regarding the public safety and well-being of the various campus entities including fellow employees. Must possess the physical capabilities to implement and communicate decisions with tact and diplomacy while confronted with stressful, hostile, or irrational situations or persons.