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Job Summary Description Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina. Summary: Protect and serve the patients, staff and visitors of UNC Hospitals through law enforcement and crime prevention. Patrol specific campus locations and investigate complaints and violations of State laws and local ordinances.
Perform specialized duties to deter crime and promote effective safety and security practices. Lead and direct daily work of Police Officers. Responsibilities: Provides first-line supervision of a squad or unit. May assist in managing the Criminal Investigations Division, Training, Administrative, or Community Services Unit. Act and direct the action of others quickly and intelligently in emergency situations.
Issue and/or effectively carry out oral and written instructions. Effectively communicate with the public, representatives of the legal system, police department personnel, and Hospital patients, staff and visitors. Prepare and/or review routine reports of activities engaged in and incidents investigated by departmental personnel for completeness and thoroughness of detail. Apply UNC regulations, local, state and federal laws and statutes in investigations.
Represent the department at meetings to plan for special events and document those meetings on behalf of the Command Staff. Complete special projects by the Command Staff to include, but not limited to, conduct research for equipment or police practices, draft staff reports, or other assignments at the discretion of the Director. Patrol UNC Hospitals properties and respond to and/or investigate complaints and violations of State laws and local ordinances.
Actively participates in annual Department goal process and effectively addresses problems associated with crime, fear of crime, and quality of life issues by using sound problem solving methods and properly documenting efforts. Investigates any and all types of extraordinary conditions or unusual circumstances that may occur on a campus and other Hospital owned property. Documents all field contacts, including liaison contacts, community contacts, suspicious persons, and community oriented policing programs on the OSSI computerized Records Management System.
Conducts foot patrol and checks assigned areas for security and safety compromises. Balances and directs patrol attention toward incidents, locations, and times based upon personal observation and crime trend analysis. Develop and implement preventative patrol techniques and perform specialized duties to deter crime and promote effective safety and security practices including evaluating statistical criminal activity data and trend evaluation; assessing potential for crime; developing and managing information programs to reduce crime; and distributing printed informational materials.
Develop and manage programs aimed at reducing crime through educating the public regarding activity on Hospital property. Focus is on personal and group preventative measures to reduce the probability that a crime will occur, plus explaining the role of UNCHP as it relates to the Hospital community. Conduct investigations of criminal activity that occurs on Hospital owned property which Includes conducting preliminary and follow-up investigations concerning violation(s) of State law, injury to persons or property, and conditions and causes of an incident.
Identifies leads, conducts interviews, prepares written reports and court documents, and identifies, collects and preserves evidence. Determines the causes of crimes, arrests suspects and testifies in court. Enforce State and local traffic laws and ordinances. Includes: accident Investigation, aiding injured persons, interviewing victims, witnesses, etc., writing citations, and arresting as appropriate.
Controls and directs pedestrian and vehicular traffic in accident and other designated areas, and other tr