Police Patrol Officer jobs in Chico, CA

• While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.  Employee is required to sit, stand, walk, use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel or crouch. 
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to run, jump, push, pull, drive safely at high speeds and in adverse conditions, physically apprehends and subdues suspects.
• Employees must occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision and depth perception, the ability to adjust focus, and be free from color blindness. 

• Incumbents in this classification are required to work on a shift schedule, including weekends and holidays, which are subject to being changed on short notice. 
• Employee may at times work indoors for only 10% of the time and work outdoors for as much as 90% of the time (including time spent in a patrol car or other police vehicle).   Employee goes from being seated in a docile position in their police cars or office to a highly energized position, and then return to a docile position.   The job can be very fast paced and may require quick changes in pace within a short period of time.  
• While performing the duties of this job indoors, the work environment is generally in a temperature controlled office. 
• Employees regularly work outdoors at all times of day and in all weather conditions and are routinely exposed to hazardous situations that may result injury, death or use of deadly force on others.  
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but the employee may occasionally be exposed to high level noises, including but not limited to, emergency vehicle sirens, gun fire, shouting and yelling. 

For questions about this recruitment contact: 

Scott Garrison, HR Analyst II

530-527-2605 Ext. 3051 | hr.redbluff@cityofredbluff.org