LEAP@ForsythTech

On-the-job Training

• Apprehend criminal suspects
  • Identify, pursue, and arrest suspects and perpetrators of criminal acts.
  • Execute arrest warrants, locating and taking persons into custody.
• Respond to emergencies to provide assistance
  • Provide for public safety by maintaining order, responding to emergencies, protecting people and property, enforcing motor vehicle and criminal laws, and promoting good community relations.
  • Patrol specific area on foot, horseback, or motorized conveyance, responding promptly to calls for assistance.
• Maintain public order or security
  • Provide for public safety by maintaining order, responding to emergencies, protecting people and property, enforcing motor vehicle and criminal laws, and promoting good community relations.
• Prepare investigation or incident reports
  • Record facts to prepare reports that document incidents and activities
• Administer first aid
  • Render aid to accident victims and other persons requiring first aid for physical injuries.
• Investigate accidents to determine causes
  • Review facts of incidents to determine if criminal act or statute violations were involved.
  • Investigate traffic accidents and other accidents to determine causes and to determine if a crime has been committed.
• Investigate illegal or suspicious activities
  • Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.
  • Monitor, note, report, and investigate suspicious persons and situations, safety hazards, and unusual or illegal activity in patrol area
• Communicate situation details to appropriate personnel
  • Monitor, note, report, and investigate suspicious persons and situations, safety hazards, and unusual or illegal activity in patrol area.
  • Notify patrol units to take violators into custody or to provide needed assistance or medical aid.
• Maintain surveillance of individuals or establishments
  • Monitor, note, report, and investigate suspicious persons and situations, safety hazards, and unusual or illegal activity in patrol area.
• Testify at legal or legislative proceedings
  • Testify in court to present evidence or act as witness in traffic and criminal cases.
• Maintain operational records
  • Process prisoners and prepare and maintain records of prisoner bookings and prisoner status during booking and pre-trial process.
• Record information about suspects or criminals
  • Process prisoners and prepare and maintain records of prisoner bookings and prisoner status during booking and pre-trial process.
• Monitor access or flow of people to prevent problems
  • Monitor traffic to ensure motorists observe traffic regulations and exhibit safe driving procedures.
  • Question individuals entering secured areas to determine their business, directing and rerouting individuals as necessary.
• Relay information about incidents or emergencies to personnel using phones or two-way radios
  • Relay complaint and emergency-request information to appropriate agency dispatchers.
• Patrol properties to maintain safety
  • Drive vehicles or patrol specific areas to detect law violators, issue citations, and make arrests.
  • Patrol and guard courthouses, grand jury rooms, or assigned areas to provide security, enforce laws, maintain order, and arrest violators.
  • Patrol specific area on foot, horseback, or motorized conveyance, responding promptly to calls for assistance.
• Determine operational procedures
  • Evaluate complaint and emergency-request information to determine response requirements.
• Guard facilities
  • Patrol and guard courthouses, grand jury rooms, or assigned areas to provide security, enforce laws, maintain order, and arrest violators.
• Interview people to gather information about criminal activities
  • Photograph or draw diagrams of crime or accident scenes and interview principals and eyewitnesses.
• Record crime or accident scene evidence with video or still cameras
  • Photograph or draw diagrams of crime or accident scenes and interview principals and eyewitnesses.
• Investigate legal issues
  • Verify that the proper legal charges have been made against law offenders.
• Direct law enforcement activities
  • Supervise law enforcement staff, such as jail staff, officers, and deputy sheriffs.
• Escort prisoners to courtrooms, prisons, or other facilities
  • Transport or escort prisoners and defendants en route to courtrooms, prisons or jails, attorneys' offices, or medical facilities.
• Direct vehicle traffic
  • Direct traffic flow and reroute traffic in case of emergencies.
• Interview people to obtain information about actions or status of individuals
  • Question individuals entering secured areas to determine their business, directing and rerouting individuals as necessary.
• Detain suspects or witnesses
  • Place people in protective custody.
• Inform the public about policies, services or procedures
  • Inform citizens of community services and recommend options to facilitate longer-term problem resolution.
• Recommend improvements to increase safety or reduce risks
  • Inform citizens of community services and recommend options to facilitate longer-term problem resolution.
• Serve court ordered documents
  • Serve statements of claims, subpoenas, summonses, jury summonses, orders to pay alimony, and other court orders.
• Confiscate prohibited or dangerous items
  • Locate and confiscate real or personal property, as directed by court order.
• Locate suspicious objects or vehicles
  • Locate and confiscate real or personal property, as directed by court order.
• Assist motorists or pedestrians
  • Provide road information to assist motorists.
• Communicate health and wellness information to the public
  • Conduct community programs for all ages concerning topics such as drugs and violence.
• Present social services program information to the public
  • Conduct community programs for all ages concerning topics such as drugs and violence.