How do they match: Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers

  • Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers

  • Drug Abuse Resistance Education Officer
  • Special Weapons and Tactics Team Member

  • Maintain order and protect life and property by enforcing local, tribal, state, or federal laws and ordinances. Perform a combination of the following duties: patrol a specific area; direct traffic; issue traffic summonses; investigate accidents; apprehend and arrest suspects, or serve legal processes of courts. Includes police officers working at educational institutions.

  • Direct traffic flow and reroute traffic in case of emergencies.
  • Identify, pursue, and arrest suspects and perpetrators of criminal acts.
  • Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.
  • Locate and confiscate real or personal property, as directed by court order.
  • Monitor, note, report, and investigate suspicious persons and situations, safety hazards, and unusual or illegal activity in patrol area.
  • Question individuals entering secured areas to determine their business, directing and rerouting individuals as necessary.
  • Record facts to prepare reports that document incidents and activities.
  • Review facts of incidents to determine if criminal act or statute violations were involved.
  • Testify in court to present evidence or act as witness in traffic and criminal cases.

  • Direct law enforcement activities.
  • Direct vehicle traffic.
  • Interview people to gather information about criminal activities.
  • Interview people to obtain information about actions or status of individuals.
  • Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.