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

  • State Highway Police Officer
  • State Patrol Officer
  • State Trooper

  • 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.

  • Execute arrest warrants, locating and taking persons into custody.
  • 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.
  • Process prisoners, and prepare and maintain records of prisoner bookings and prisoner status during booking and pre-trial process.
  • Render aid to accident victims and other persons requiring first aid for physical injuries.
  • Serve statements of claims, subpoenas, summonses, jury summonses, orders to pay alimony, and other court orders.

  • Communicate situation details to appropriate personnel.
  • Interview people to obtain information about actions or status of individuals.
  • Relay information about incidents or emergencies to personnel using phones or two-way radios.