What does it take to be a Police Officer? Law enforcement is a challenging career. You learn from the very start that there is no nine to five routine. It takes a special kind of person - a dedicated person, a person who spells "Responsibility" with a capital R. After all, you will be guarding a neighborhood street, finding a lost child , helping a crime victim. In law enforcement, you make the difference in success or failure, even life or death.
The Department is determined to give the citizens of Miami-Dade County the best in law enforcement services. Therefore, we are looking for high caliber recruits willing to make Miami-Dade County an even better place to live.
Illustrative Tasks
Patrols the unincorporated area of the County in a radio equipped car or motorcycle to preserve law and order.
Responds to a variety of calls that require several intervention approaches ranging from personal counseling techniques to the use of physical or deadly force. Police Officers respond to accidents, domestic disturbances, various misdemeanors and felonies, traffic and crowd problems, etc.
At crime scenes or accidents, Police Officers: administer first aid; conduct preliminary investigations; locate evidence; obtain information from witnesses; complete reports; make arrests; and escort prisoners to jail.
Testifies in court concerning work activities.
Serves Criminal and Metropolitan writs; conducts search and surveillance to determine whereabouts of person to be served; arrests fugitives and returns person to proper authority.
Serves as instructor in the teaching of traffic safety to civic and school groups; broadcasts traffic information through commercial radio stations.
Assists in departmental programs and cooperates with other agencies in dealing with social, medical, and psychological problems such as domestic crises, alcoholism, attempted suicides, and other emotional disturbances.
On assignment, participates in underwater search and recovery missions, mobile crime laboratory investigations, undercover surveillance, civil defense exercises, rescue operations, marine patrol, and vice raids.
Assists in the presentation of departmental training programs.
Patrols the unincorporated area of the County in a radio equipped car or motorcycle to preserve law and order.
