JD 130

ISSUE 1

OCTOBER 2005

Job Title:

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POLICE OFFICER

Responsible To:

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WATCH SERGEANT

Job Purpose:

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Being fully aware of Company Policies, Emergency & Contingency Response Plans and the Port Police Unit policing strategy meet the day-to-day requirements of Port Policing within the dock estate.

Primary Objectives of

the Role:

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Within performance standards laid down by Management and through the Watch Sergeant, enact all port police patrols and duties designed to achieve sufficient density of police cover and response. Providing protection to all persons, premises and cargo in the dock area. Facilitating the lawful movement of such people, vehicles and cargo. Service any requests for assistance, investigate the unusual and report any incidents, accidents or emergencies, etc, in a professional unbiased police manner. Enforce where necessary and encourage wherever practicable all port users to abide by current Health & Safety protocols, both local and national legislation, Port Byelaws and Operational Procedures to maintain a safe working environment for all port users.

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES

Responsibility
For people
/ The job holder is personally responsible during prevailing duty periods for their turnout; for ensuring at all times (especially within the public eye) they project a smart, alert, efficient persona with the knowledge, skills and impartiality to respond to all requests for port police assistance.
Port Police constables by the nature of their employment are duty bound to provide protection for all persons within the Dock estate.
Constables employed as Acting Watch Sergeants will be responsible for their designated watch officers during their Watch Sergeants absence.
For Assets
/ Responsible at all times for items of personal issue equipment; radios, handcuffs, batons, warrant card and police notebooks. During prevailing duty periods be responsible for the presentation and serviceability of police patrol vehicles allocated to them. Also for various items of port police equipment (speed guns & signs, ‘Tracker’ system, breath analyser machines, search equipment, etc) when they have occasion to use such.
For Finance
/ They have a personal duty of care to ensure equipment and stationary consumables are used and maintained in a cost effective manner.
Decision Making
/ The role requires almost continuous judgement making and the taking of actions whilst out on mobile patrol. Many of these are routine day-to-day issues but frequently more complex and fast analysis and decision making is required during immediate response to emergencies and or major incidents.
Communications
/ Good, above average written and oral communication skills are required frequently from port police officers. An ability to communicate at all levels is important with the potential for requests for assistance coming from any level of Company employee or port user.
Occasional influencing, negotiating and at times enforcement issues require good tactical communication skills.
Experience & Knowledge / Previous experience in a policing, security or military field is desirable although not essential, as is familiarity with the ports layout or operations.
Officers must be mentally alert and able to pass a locally administered exam following a basic law course and complete a one-year probationary period satisfactorily.
Qualifications / Whilst no nationally recognised qualifications are required of port police officers, jobholders must have a good general intelligence and maturity, a valid full driving license and good communication skills to fulfil the role.
To qualify as a fully trained Port police officer they undertake a series of initial training inductions followed by a one year probation period during which they must complete a training log book which records their practical knowledge and experience of port policing operations.
Personal Demands
Mental Demands
/ The commitment, responsibility and wide general subject knowledge provides its own mental demands. Mental demands can fluctuate greatly between routine and emergency responses. There is also the requirement to analyse complex situations quickly and respond accordingly.
The anxiety of potential physical confrontation and or attendance at traumatic emergency incidents (involving serious injury possibly death).
Physical Demands
/ The role requires that officers are physically fit and able to pass their annual Officer Safety Training tests. This requires the demonstration of skills in Physical Restraint, Unarmed Defence Tactics, straight baton & handcuffing techniques. The fitness and agility to conduct traffic control duties and regular foot patrols around many obscure areas of the port. Also the ability to work for long periods without rest during emergencies and during all weather conditions.
Health & Safety
(unavoidable exposure to risk) / Potential for exposure to high risk during confrontational and emergency situations.
May be exposed to unavoidable risk in the course of normal working (enforcing the law, traffic control, security patrol duties, etc).
Lone working requirement during both normal and silent hour patrols.

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