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

  • Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers

  • Investigator
  • Detective
  • Sheriff's Detective
  • Special Weapons and Tactics Team Member

  • 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.

  • Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.
  • Investigate traffic accidents and other accidents to determine causes and to determine if a crime has been committed.
  • Drive vehicles or patrol specific areas to detect law violators, issue citations, and make arrests.
  • Monitor, note, report, and investigate suspicious persons and situations, safety hazards, and unusual or illegal activity in patrol area.

  • Investigate accidents to determine causes.
  • Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.
  • Investigate legal issues.
  • Prepare investigation or incident reports.