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Task List
School Police Officer Strength Tasks
- Lift a television set which has
been
left
by vandals
and carry it back into a classroom a distance of 40 feet.
- Carry a brief case from patrol car
to
police
department building.
- Lift a bicycle into the back of
patrol
car.
- Lift bicycle into the back of squad
car.
- Push open a chain link gate that
has
old
or stuck
wheels that makeit hard to open and close.
- Lift a tire out of the back of a
squad
car when
working the night shift.
- Push open a door that has been
damaged
due to
burglary.
- Push open a window at the high
school
when it appears
that a burglaryhas taken place.
- Stand on the roof a patrol car and
pull
yourself up
onto the roof ofa school building.
- Lift and carry an injured student
away
from a violent
and riotous crowd.
- Perform a body drag to move an
injured
student out of
the sunlightor away from a hazardous situation.
- Lift and carry a student who is
overdosing on drugs
or alcohol andcarry him to the nurses station.
- Lift and carry a student to a safe
location when
other students maybe repeatedly attacking the victim to inflict even
more damage.
- Quickly run 75 to 100 feet to break
up a
fight on a
campus.
- Swing a baton to defend to break up
fights during a
campus riot.
- With a forward thrusting motion,
use
a
baton to
strike a suspect inthe chest in order to protect yourself and gain
control of the situation.
- Sprint 50 yards after a fleeing
student.
- Jerk on a baton to help open a
stuck
gate.
- Run to an accident in the parking
lot.
- Run to a fight that is occurring on
the
bus.
- Pull students away from each other
in
order to
separate during a fight.
- Push a violent and resisting
student
into
patrol car.
- Pull a violent and resisting
student
out
of the
patrol car after transportinghim to the county jail.
- Push a coke machine out of the way
when
it is
blocking a door you mustenter.
- Jump up in order to climb over a
six
foot
tall chain
link fence.
- Push, pull and shove hard on a
combative
student
during a brief struggleto gain control of a situation.
- Throw a violent, and combative,
adult
nonstudent to
the ground duringa brief struggle.
- Dodge objects being thrown at you
by
parents and
students after thefootball team has lost a game.
- Quickly exit patrol car to chase a
fleeing nonstudent
who has attackeda student.
- Walk for up to 8 hours while
performing
duties as a
campus officer.
- Walk for as long as 16-18 hours on
days
of games,
dances, and specialactivities.
- Conduct a building search for
vandals
or
burglars at
a school campus.
- Engage in a protracted struggle
with
a
student
weighing 260 lbs. foras long as five minutes in order to take into
custody.
- Direct traffic for an hour and 15
minutes
during a
special event oremergency situation.
- Spend 30 minutes walking along the
levy
at a junior
high school.
- Chase an escaping nonstudent a
distance
of two
blocks, and then subduehim.
- Kneel or squat to get a better view
on a
stakeout in
order to makeyourself as small a target as possible.
- Bend over in a car while conducting
a
vehicle search.
- Crouch over during a building
search
at
night as a
means of reducingyour visibility to others.
- Bend down or crouch at a crime
scene
to
locate
evidence.
- Bend over to pick up a bicycle and
place
it into back
of vehicle.
- Fire handgun from kneeling, sitting
and
prone
positions during firearmsqualification.
- Bend over to perform CPR during
annual
recertification.
- Bend and reach while checking
vehicles
after the
transport of suspects to county jail.
School Police Officer Flexibility
Tasks
- Reach into the trunk of patrol car
to
remove gear.
- Reach and stretch in order to climb
over
a chain link
fence.
- Reach and stretch while patting
down
students
suspected of carrying weapons.
- Reach up to pull down the arm of a
suspect to place
cuffs on.
- Reach up to help a student off the
roof
of a school
building.
- Bend over and reach lift up an
injured
student.
- Repeatedly bend, twist, stretch and
reach
while
fighting with a nonstudentsuspect.
- Perform a building search for a
reported
bomb.
- Perform daily foot patrol on
campus.
- Walk and perform various law
enforcement
activities
for up to 18 hoursincluding duties performed at a special event or
emergency.
- Bend and reach while performing CPR
during annual
recertification course.
- Stretch arms and legs while running
up
the stairs at
the stadium.
- Stretch while walking up and down
stadium
steps to
deter crime.
- Bend and stretch while running to
the
parking lot and
breaking up afight between parents.
School Police Officer Stamina Tasks
- Struggle with a combative
nonstudent
for
up to four
minutes to takeinto custody.
- Conduct a building check at night
by
walking around
school facilities.
- After chasing a nonstudent offender
for
one hundred
yards, take himdown and subdue him until assistance arrives.
- Chase a fleeing nonstudent drug
dealer
for two
hundred yards.
- Follow a violent offender (by
keeping
in
view) to
inform the policeor county sheriff of location.
- Run up the stairs at the stadium to
quell
a
disturbance.
- Place up to four resisting gang
members
in a single
patrol car whentransporting them to juvenile hall.
School Police Officer Body Movement
Tasks
- Reach out to a student who has made
a
sudden movement
to stop him fromreaching for a gun or other weapon.
- Draw 9 mm semi-automatic handgun
from
holster.
- Slam on the brakes of a patrol car
to
avoid
collision.
- Block the punch of a student who is
trying to hit
you.
- Reach and grab a student who is
trying to
make a run
from you afteryou have detained him.
- Coordinate the movement or your
arms
and
legs while
walking over roughand uneven in water and mud during flooding.
- Coordinate body movements while
walking
on levy.
- Coordinate the movement of your
arms
and
legs while
climbing up ordown the stairs in the stadium.
- Coordinate your body movement while
chasing a suspect
across a campus.
- While subduing a hysterical and
violent
student,
coordinate arm bodyand leg movements in order to restrain him or her.
- Walk through a crowd of 300 yelling
students in order
to get to a fighton school property.
- Coordinate arm and leg movements in
order
to climb
over a chain linkfence.
- Maintain your balance when fighting
with
a suspect to
gain control.
- Maintain your balance while walking
or
patrolling in
very strong winds.
- Demonstrate a field sobriety test
for
a
student you
suspect as beingdrunk.
- Maintain your balance while walking
in
water that is
a foot deep duringflooding.
- Maintain your balance while
standing
on a
roof during
a building check/search.
- Maintain body balance during a
physical
confrontation
with a violentsuspect.
- Chase a suspect over a wet and
muddy
surface without
falling.
- Maintain your balance while
climbing
over
a chain
link fence.
- Maintain your balance while walking
over
slick and
slippery floors.
- Perform a horizontal gaze nystagmus
test.
School Police Officer Arm and Hand
Tasks
- Place a 9 mm shell into the clip of
a
semi-automatic.
- Hold handcuffs steady while placing
them
on a
suspect.
- Hold your arm and hand steady to
put
pressure on a
bleeding wound ofa student while awaiting the arrival of an ambulance.
- Hold a flashlight steady at night
during
a building
search.
- Aim a 9mm semi-automatic handgun.
- Aim a Polaroid to take a picture of
evidence at a
school crime scene.
- Use a slim jim.
- Stand in an intersection and direct
traffic to a
football game.
- Use a hand-held spot light while
driving
patrol car.
- Control a suspect with one hand,
while
cuffing with
the other.
- Drive while speaking over hand-held
microphone at
same time.
- Perform a high speed pursuit while
operating the
steering wheel,transmission,radio, lights, siren and other car
controls.
- Drive and hold a flashlight when
searching for a
hiding suspect.
- Clean 9mm semi-automatic weapon.
- Use various tools to change a tire
on
car.
- Place a micro cassette into tape
recorder.
- Handle pepper spray.
- Take handcuffs off a suspect.
- Load film in a Polaroid camera.
- Place a magazine into 9mm
semi-automatic
hand gun.
- Fingerprint a suspect.
- Write report with a pen.
- Type on computer keyboard to
retrieve
information.
- Operate the AC, radio, wipers,
sirens,
emergency
equipment, lightsand other controls in a patrol car.
- Operate a portable hand-held radio.
- Handle 9 mm bullets when reloading
clip.
- Hand the eye dropper when using the
Valtox field test
for drugs.
- Reach into a suspect's pocket and
feel
for a weapon,
drugs or otherevidence.
- Pick up shell casing, syringes and
other
evidence of
crime found onthe ground at a crime scene.
School Police Officer Vision Tasks
- Read student ID card.
- Read attendance screens on campus
computers.
- Look for serial numbers on
evidence.
- Read a VIN number on a car.
- See the front sight of weapon.
- See latent finger prints at crime
scene.
- Examine tool marks to determine the
type
of tool used
in a burglary.
- Read print on driver's licenses.
- Read data on computer screen.
- Read departments policies, notices
and
crime
bulletins.
- Read entries in the daily log.
- Match a description or suspect to
photographs on
file.
- Look at a gang photograph to see
what
the
gang
membership is.
- See when a driver's license has
been
altered.
- Look for evidence inside a car
during
a
search.
- Describe a tattoo of a suspect (in
terms
of design,
age, quality &location) for a report you are writing.
- Read a car license plate a distance
of
three car
lengths away.
- Recognize wanted suspects or
students
walking along
the street whiledriving.
- Read a house address from the
patrol
car.
- In broad daylight, determine if a
person
has a gun in
their hand at7 yards.
- In broad daylight, determine if a
suspect
has a
weapon in his handat 15 yards.
- Read street signs while driving.
- Perform pursuit driving.
- In broad daylight, determine if a
suspect
has a
weapon in his handat 25 feet.
- Look at the license plate of a
suspicious
car in
neighbor hood andcall in to dispatch.
- Scope a room out when conducting a
search.
- Recognize the faces of students
from
as
far a
distance as possible.
- Describe the color of a tattoo for
a
report you are
writing.
- Match colors on the field drug
tests.
- Recognize eye and hair color as
well
as
skin tones.
- Identify basic colors of cars.
- Identify the basic colors of
clothing.
- Observe the red, green, and amber
lights
of traffic
signals.
- Determine the type of fluid on the
highway by its
color (oil, transmissionfluid, coolant, etc.).
- Identify a person as being a member
of a
particular
race.
- When walking on foot see fight or
drug
dealers out of
the corner ofthe eye.
- See movement to the left or right
during
a building
search.
- As you approach a group of male
students
who spread
out to your leftand right, look for sudden movements to your extreme
left and right.
- See a person flagging you down at
the
side of a
highway.
- Out of the corner of your eye, see
the
sudden
movements of suspectsyou have isolated while you are searching their
vehicle.
- See a car enter an intersection at
a
four-way stop
while you are drivingthrough with emergency equipment flashing.
- During a disturbance several
suspects
are
involved,
observe the entirearea around you in order to maintain control of the
situation.
- Drive patrol vehicle onto campus,
by
carefully
passing between narrowposts and poles.
School Police Officer Hearing Tasks
- While in parked car at night hear
the
dispatcher.
- Listen to noises or the
conversation
of
another
officer while on astake out.
- Hear the whispering of suspects
during a
building
search.
- Hear the conversation of an
attorney
and
a judge
during a courtroomproceeding.
- Hear the soft-spoken speech of an
injured
student
victim when takinga report.
- Hear parents' speech in a quiet
home
while
interviewing them.
- Hear the speech of a witness in
interview
room.
- Hear and understand quiet
conversation of
another
officer in closeproximity to a suspect.
- Hear and understand the
conversation
of a
CPS worker.
- Hear your two-way radio when the
volume
is extremely
low.
- Hear the conversation of a student
to
determine what
has occurred atan incident.
- Hear and understand the speech of
various
speakers
during a meetingswith school administrators and teachers.
- Hear and understand the speech of
students or a
Campus Monitor in aschool cafeteria at lunch time.
- Hear and understand the
conversation
of
parents or
student over thesounds of screaming children and blaring television.
- Over the sound of the siren, hear
dispatcher
conversation over theradio.
- Hear conversation of dispatcher
over
traffic noise.
- Hear other officers' speaking
during
crowd control
situation.
- Hear the speech of students and
teachers
in a noisy
classroom.
- Hear the speech of students in
hallways
and walkways
during class changes.
- Hear and understand the speech of a
school bus driver
concerning thebehavior of particular students on the school bus.
- Hear and understand the
conversation
of
students or
teachers at a noisyfootball game.
- Hear the spontaneous statements of
students
immediately after a fightor other altercation involving multiple
students.
- Determine which car in a parking
lot
is
playing a
stereo very, veryloudly.
- Hear a student or another officer
calling
for help on
campus.
- Determine the direction of gun
shots.
- Determine from what parking lot
squealing
tires are
coming from.
- When performing a building check,
determine from what
direction youhear a window breaking.
- Determine whether footsteps are
coming
toward, away,
or left or right,during a building search.
- Discern whether footsteps are
getting
fainter or
louder relative toyour location.
- Recognize the sound of a knife
opening.
- Hear the beeps on radio made to get
your
attention.
- Hear whether the patrol car's
engine
is
making an
unusual noise.
- Distinguish between car backfire
and
a
gun shot.
- Recognize various sounds at a
burglary
in-progress,
such as movement,breaking glass, and "prying" sounds.
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