Police Dispatcher
Pasadena Area Community College District•Pasadena, CA
•Onsite
About The Position
Under direction of the lead Administrative Sergeant, performs a variety of dispatch and police administrative duties of above-average difficulty which require learning specific policies, practices, and selecting which procedures to use for specific cases; types with accuracy and speed; and does related work as required. The District is a POST certified agency.
Requirements
- Graduation from high school or possession of a GED
- Six months of recent experience in related emergency services dispatching
- Successful completion of the POST Public Safety Dispatcher Course and possession of current POST Public Safety Dispatcher Certificate or the ability to obtain within one year of employment.
- Attach all related POST certificates to application.
- Equivalency waiver will not be granted for the POST Public Safety Dispatcher Course or the POST Public Safety Dispatcher Certificate.
Nice To Haves
- Previous experience in law enforcement communications and dispatching
- Previous experience in customer service especially in a college or university environment.
- Fundamental computer operation skills.
Responsibilities
- Establishes priorities and performs all the clerical tasks and services related to Police/Safety Services.
- Communicates clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
- Answers emergency and routine calls from Police/Safety personnel via radio and telephone.
- Answers emergency and routine calls from students, staff, guests, and public safety departments via telephone.
- Maintains communication with units on assignment, status and location of all field units.
- Maintains daily logs, reports and other documents relating to public safety activities.
- Monitors the fire, intrusion and panic alarms.
- Interprets electronic alarm signals and dispatches personnel to answer the alarms as needed.
- Enters, organizes, maintains, edits, and retrieves data for parking citations in a computer database.
- Monitors and manipulates all campus video surveillance cameras.
- Operates a variety of public safety telecommunications equipment.
- Enters, updates, and retrieves information from teletype networks relating to stolen vehicles, stolen property, wanted or missing persons.
Benefits
- 100% District covered Medical, Dental, Vision for employee and dependents
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
High school or GED
