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POLICE OFFICER (TEST DATE 01/08/2027)

City of Rockwall, TX · Rockwall, TX

POLICE OFFICER (TEST DATE 01/08/2027) at City of Rockwall, TX in Rockwall, TX. A first responder job listing aggregated on RESPONDin.

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ONLINE APPLICATION DEADLINE: 01/01/2027 CONFIRMATION DATE: 01/04/2027 TEST DATE: 01/08/2027 CHECK IN: 8:00AM - 8:30AM LOCATION: 2610 Observation Trail Suite 103, Rockwall 75032 ***IF YOU DO NOT CONFIRM, YOU WILL NOT TEST*** You will receive an email from i [email protected] containing confirmation instructions and additional details regarding the test day. Please check your spam or junk folder if you do not see it in your inbox. If you have not received this email by January 4, 2027 please contact Sgt. Steven Brassil at 972-772-6727 or via email at [email protected] . STUDY GUIDE: Available for $7.50 at City Hall, 385 South Goliad Street, Rockwall, TX 75087 , payable by cash or money order to the City of Rockwall during regular business hours, Monday through Friday, 8:00AM – 5:00PM or online at Stanard & Associates . PHYSICAL AGILITY: Please arrive in appropriate athletic attire and bring water. Headphones are permitted during the physical agility portion. 2000-Meter Row Guidelines are available here: PD Testing Guidelines . IMMEDIATE EMPLOYMENT DISQUALIFIERS: All candidates must review the I mmediate Employment Disqualifiers before submitting an application for employment. EXAMPLES OF ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS Under direct supervision of a Patrol Division Sergeant, performs a wide variety of police and law enforcement activities. Tasks are service and protection oriented, and includes collecting and dispensing information, arbitrating disputes, providing assistance, protecting and recovering property, preventing crime, investigating, and providing other public protection services. Duties include an element of personal danger, i.e., exposure to life-threatening circumstances, apprehending criminals, and transporting prisoners. Incumbents perform duties in accordance with State Statutes and established departmental policies, procedures, and guidelines. The incumbent must be able to act without close supervision and must be able to exercise independent judgment. • Conducts routine preventive patrol in designated residential and business areas, and initiates contacts with both business operators and residents to establish open communications, gather and dispense information, and establish the presence of law enforcement within the community. • Responds to calls for police service and takes action upon observing a circumstance or situation requiring police attention, i.e., responding to domestic disputes and disturbances, disputes among neighbors, juveniles, on-going criminal investigations. • Interviews witnesses, victims, suspects, arrested persons, and informants to obtain pertinent information concerning accidents/crimes. • Provides information to the public, victims, witnesses, and relatives concerning available services in the community. • Provides assistance and service to the public, i.e., changing tires, directing traffic, unlocking vehicles, and jump-starting batteries. • Responds to burglary and fire alarms, and robbery in progress calls, and performs initial building searches. • Performs CPR at scenes, and performs critical emergency care, such as stopping excessive bleeding, during the interim when emergency medical personnel are en route. • Conducts initial crime scene investigations, i.e., identifies and collects crucial evidence to be secured for processing, labels evidence with data for crime scene reconstruction, packages and stores evidence in a manner to protect chain of custody. • Enforces State and local traffic laws to ensure safety, investigates motor vehicle accidents, and protects lives and property at all motor vehicle accident scenes. • Identifies and issues municipal citations to violators of misdemeanor offenses. Enforces laws and apprehends misdemeanor and felony violators and fugitives; arrests and transports persons found to have committed a criminal act. • Testifies in civil, traffic, and criminal court proceedings, ALR and Evidentiary hearings, and gives depositions. • Performs considerable