The following job specifications are hereby adopted for the rank of
police officer in the Wilkinsburg Police Department:
A. Under direction and supervision, performs duties to preserve
the peace, detect and apprehend offenders, protect life and property and provide
for community safety by enforcing state and local laws, ordinances and regulations.
B. Specific duties consist of:
(1) Performing line functions of patrol to repress criminal
activity, regulate conduct and deliver emergency public service, providing
traffic control and enforcement to reduce accidents and congestion, performing
crime investigation functions to apprehend criminals, recover stolen property
and gather and prepare evidence for the prosecution of criminals, engage in
vice control to eliminate commercialized vice and safeguard the morals of
the community, controlling youthful offenders to prevent the development of
delinquent tendencies and to aid in their correction.
(2) Performing nonline functions to facilitate the delivery
of police service consisting of records duties, recording, classifying and
indexing facts relating to departmental activities; communications duties
to receive and transmit police information and orders using the telephone,
radio, teletype and other communication devices; jail duties to provide suitable
custodial detention; property control to care for department property and
property coming into Department possession.