Supervisory Police Officer

Quick Facts

• Job Title: Supervisory Police Officer
• Schedule: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Description

The Supervisory Police Officer provides second-level supervision, technical law-enforcement direction, and command during significant incidents and complex investigations. The role includes monitoring legal and policy changes, ensuring investigative adequacy and evidentiary quality, and coordinating with federal, state, local, and other public-safety partners. Incumbents must maintain readiness for Federal police duties, including physical capability and firearm qualification.

Responsibilities

• Direct, coordinate, and evaluate law-enforcement operations through subordinate supervisory officers
• Establish operational priorities, staffing, deployment, schedules, and work procedures based on mission and threat conditions
• Resolve elevated technical, operational, and supervisory issues involving legal complexity, sensitive circumstances, and cross-unit effects
• Provide technical guidance on federal police authority, jurisdiction, constitutional requirements, arrest/detention, search and seizure, warrants, evidence, criminal procedure, use of force, evidence preservation, chain of custody, and case referral
• Conduct second-level technical review of significant, sensitive, complex, or prolonged investigations
• Provide second-level command and supervisory direction during critical incidents (active threats, major uses of force, assaults, high-risk searches, barricaded subjects, missing high-risk persons, disasters, and infrastructure failures)
• Monitor changes in laws, court decisions, precedent, VA directives, policies, technology, and policing practices; recommend and implement procedural and training changes
• Exercise delegated supervisory and managerial authorities (planning work, setting/adjusting priorities, assigning work, evaluating performance, counseling, and handling employee complaints)
• Establish professional relationships and coordinate investigations and incident response with external law-enforcement, prosecutors, courts, attorneys, emergency management, and VA officials

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship
• Completion of required application steps including an online assessment
• Subject to urinalysis screening prior to appointment (refusal denies employment)
• Selective Service registration (males born after 12/31/1959)
• Background/security investigation
• Online onboarding and acceptable identification for pre-employment requirements
• Probationary period: 1-year evaluation before continued employment is certified
• At least 1 year of specialized experience equivalent to GS-09, including leading law-enforcement operations, enforcing laws, making arrests, patrol duties, incident control, witness/suspect interviews, and preparation of detailed reports
• Valid, unrestricted state driver’s license; safe driving record; pass agency driver physical examination
• Firearm requirement: carry and maintain qualification/certification with agency-approved firearms (18 U.S.C. 922(g)(9))
• Complete an 8–10 week training course at the VA Law Enforcement Training Center (Little Rock, Arkansas)
• Medical requirements: vision/color discrimination and ability to hear conversational voice; psychological examination and emotional/mental stability
• Ability to perform essential functions without risk to self or others; reasonable accommodation considered
• Time-in-grade requirements apply to eligible current/former Federal employees

Benefits

Eligible federal employees receive a comprehensive benefits package (benefits depend on the type of position held).