Lieutenant

Employment Standards
Successful candidates for the position of Lieutenant must possess the following qualifications and/or skills:

Knowledge of:
• Principles of organizational dynamics, management, training and progressive discipline.
• Federal, State, and local laws and ordinances including those pertaining to search and seizure, rules of evidence, interviewing of suspects, court procedure, criminal law, laws of arrest, and laws governing the care, custody and control of prisoners.
• Investigative procedures, methods and techniques, including preserving crime scenes, identifying the elements of a crime, preserving evidence, obtaining statements, and provisions of the Peace Officer Bill of Rights.
• Department policies and procedures, including the General Orders; university policies and procedures, including but not limited to the Administrative Guide; and the provisions outlined in the collective bargaining agreement between Stanford University and the Stanford Deputy Sheriff’s Association.
• The Incident Command System.
• Self defense, officer safety and crowd control tactics.
• Techniques to develop and promote teamwork.

Ability to:
• Effectively plan, organize, coordinate, direct, set goals and manage a diverse work force.
• Interpret, convey and ensure implementation of agency policies, procedures and methods; ensure that personnel have clear guidelines of authority and responsibility.
• Establish and maintain effective community and public relations within a culturally diverse population; ability to work well with Stanford colleagues, clients, and external organizations.
• Teach, supervise and develop mentoring relationships with sworn and non-sworn personnel.
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing; develop and present information to groups.
• Work both independently and as part of a group, maintaining effective interpersonal working relationships both within and external to the department.
• Use sound judgment and independence in determining priorities.
• Assimilate and understand information in a manner consistent with the essential job functions.
• Work in fast-paced environment and complete work in a timely and accurate manner.
• Carry out advanced law enforcement functions such as reviewing investigation crime reports, interviewing individuals, reviewing citations, and managing crowds.
• Investigate complaints, infractions, violations of department or university policies, procedures and standards.
• Take appropriate actions in emergency and stressful situations.
• Perform law enforcement specific duties and responsibilities which may include effecting arrests, subduing resisting individuals, chasing fleeing subjects, running, walking, crouching or crawling during emergency operations moving equipment and injured/deceased persons, climbing stairs/ladders, performing life-saving and rescue procedures, walking, standing or sitting for extended periods of time, and operating assigned equipment and vehicles.
• Maintain effective audio-visual discrimination and perception needed for making observations, communicating with others, reading and writing, and operating assigned equipment and vehicles.
• Maintain mental capacity which allows the capability to exercise sound judgment and rational thinking under dangerous circumstances, evaluate various options and alternatives and choose an appropriate and reasonable course of action, and demonstrate intellectual capabilities during training and testing processes.
• Use computers and supporting applications.

Personal Characteristics
• Desire to motivate and inspire others to achieve performance goals and objectives.
• Willingness to promote and personally model high ethical standards, integrity, dependability and the department’s Core Values.
• Conscientious, self-motivated and driven.
• Mature response to challenges and setbacks; emotional control, including under stressful conditions.
• Demonstrated commitment to personal responsibility and value of safety; communicate safety concerns; use and promote safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.
• Receptive to feedback; flexible and adaptable.
• Commitment to the development of personnel and the department.
• Remain compliant with California Vehicle Code and Stanford University’s driving requirements.
• Acceptance that one’s behavior off-duty impacts one’s on-duty credibility and ability to function effectively; in the event an officer’s off-duty conduct is determined through a department investigation to have violated department policies and procedures governing behavior, the officer may be subject to discipline, up to and including termination.

Physical Requirements
• Ability to pass a physical demands test relevant to the job requirements.
• Maintain and retain minimal peace officer status requirements to perform job duties (e.g., arrest and control techniques, defensive tactics, high speed driving under stressful conditions, and proficiency with a variety of firearms).
• Must be able to affect arrests, including subjects who may resist or attempt to flee.
• Must be able to wear personal protective equipment related to job duties including a duty belt (approximately 40 pounds); during special operations wear or carry other police equipment weighing up to an additional 40 pounds. Ability to wear and breathe through a full face piece, negative pressure, air-purifying respirator (per Cal/OSHA 8 CCR Sec. 5144, a medical clearance, fit-testing and training are required for personnel who are required to wear such respirator) and the ability to wear and breathe through a particulate mask (currently a N-95 mask).
• Vision not less than 20/100 in each eye; correctable to no less than 20/30 in each eye; without functional color blindness or impairment.
• Constantly lift, carry, push, and or pull objects that weigh 11-20 pounds.
• Frequently stand, walk, sit, and perform desk-based computer tasks. Tasks may require grasping and/or fine manipulation, and the operation of foot and/or hand controls.
• Occasionally writing by hand.
• Rarely kneel, crawl, climb (ladders, scaffolds, other), reach/work above shoulders, grasp forcefully, use a telephone, sort/file paperwork or parts, scrub/sweep/mop, lift /carry/push/pull objects that weigh >40 pounds, use a respirator.

Working Conditions
• Work in emergency situations, confined spaces, intense life-threatening conditions, and inclement weather conditions.
• May have exposure to dangerous persons, firearms, bodily fluids, fumes, moving objects, and noise.
• Work irregular work hours, including overtime and holidays.

Work Standards
• When conducting university business, must comply with the California Vehicle Code and Stanford University driving requirements.
• Interpersonal skills: demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
• Promote Culture of Safety: demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.
• Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable Department and University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies, general orders and other policies found in the university’s Administrative Guide.

Minimum Education and Experience
• Successful completion of a basic Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) certified po9lice academy or successful completion of the California (POST) Basic Course Waiver process.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and five years of satisfactory, continuous, and recent experience as a sergeant or higher rank at a California law enforcement agency, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Minimum Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required
• Meet all required all minimum standards prescribed in Government code sections 1029 and 1031, including a psychological evaluation, polygraph examination, fingerprinting, background investigation, and medical/physical examination.
• Advanced interviewing, interrogation and observation skills.
• Maintain proficiency and training requirements mandated by department, university, Peace Officer Standards and Training, or county sheriff’s office.
• Possess knowledge, skills and abilities qualifications at the levels of Sergeants.
• Supervisory and leadership skills.

Special Requirements
• Possess and maintain a valid California Driver’s License and an acceptable driving record.
• Not be in violation of Brady v. Maryland 373 U.S. 83 (1963).
• Ability to accommodate schedule adjustments in order to meet staffing and supervision needs.
• Willingness to respond to emergency and critical conditions and to work special events on scheduled days off or after regular shift hours, sometimes with little or no advance notice.

SELECTION PROCESS (specific order of the process is subject to change)
• Application
• Personal History Statement(PHS)
• Oral Board Interview with department and university personnel
• Background investigation, including a polygraph examination
• Medical/Physical Demands Exam
• Interview with the Director of Public Safety
• Approval by the Sheriff of Santa Clara County
• If applicable, deputization by the Santa Clara County Office of the Sheriff

Applicants with previous Stanford Department of Public Safety experience are strongly preferred.