The members of the University of Colorado Boulder Police Department (CUPD) are dedicated to providing the highest quality police services in order to improve community safety, protect life and property, and reduce crime and the fear of crime. To do this, we pledge to develop a partnership with the community, to lead a community dedication to resolve problems, and to improve the quality of life for all CU affiliates. The CUPD is a full-service police agency with 46 sworn and 36 non-sworn employees providing community-based public safety services to a diverse community of 36,000 affiliates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all year long. Every year the department responds to approximately 20,000 calls for service and ensures the safety and security for all of their PAC-12 Conference athletic events with attendance at football games exceeding 50,000 fans. Patrolling the campus by foot, bicycle, motorcycle, and vehicle, the CU Boulder Police work diligently with the University community and surrounding agencies to ensure a timely and coordinated law enforcement response.

Receiving, Prioritizing Calls, & Send Appropriate Response

• Make decisions directly impacting the lives, health, safety and property of the public, law-enforcement and emergency services personnel
• Coordinate the deployment and monitoring of law enforcement and emergency services resources in response to multiple simultaneous emergent calls for service such as: crimes-in-progress, burglaries, thefts, fires, vehicle accidents, medical emergencies, natural disasters, hazardous materials incidents, civil disturbances and other public safety incidents.
• Provide Life Safety Emergency Response for those with disabilities such as hearing/speech/vision via Text Telephone Device (TDD). (Use of this device also requires competence in hearing impaired language skills which differ from those with normal senses and communicative abilities)

Documentation of all Incidents

• Record and document details of call information, resource deployment, response times, unit activity and status, personnel deployment and status, pending incident status and call loading by accessing and operating county-wide computer aided dispatching system.

Query & Disseminate from Data Bases

• Expeditiously relays concise, accurate information by accessing, extracting, analyzing and interpreting general, criminal justice, departmental university and other printed or computer-based information resources.

Updating & Making Entries into Law Enforcement Data Bases

• Enter, audit, modify, update, correct, remove, replace, record, documents, retrieve, distribute and secure local, state and national criminal justice records and data bases, departmental and University databases, lists, logs, forms, files, records, memoranda and written procedures.

Community Outreach

• Provide assistance to other campus departments for the development or understanding of their interactions with the communications center.
• Strong understanding of communications equipment and its uses, knowledge to improve their ability to report incidents in a timely and concise manner to the center for general police responses and emergency responses and support for developing new programs that will interact with the communications center.

Communications Section Projects / Support Services Division Projects / Training New Employees

• Provide assistance to Communications Section and Support Service Division with any special projects or ongoing projects as needed.
• Support Section in recruitment and retention of employees. Train new communications personnel by providing supervision, instruction, counseling, direction evaluation, critique, daily observation reports (DOR), on console experience using a structured departmental communications training program.
• Prepare documents, memoranda, training materials, procedures manuals, disaster response protocols and other written materials for dissemination and distribution after review and approved by supervisors.

Mutual Aid

• Ensure uninterrupted mutual aid, interoperability, and support with public safety communications for the city Boulder and Boulder County under mutual aid agreements by providing emergency and auxiliary inter-agency communications support, personnel and facilities.

Support Duties

• Correct minor computer or phone problems including restarts, logons and general knowledge of equipment in center.

• The salary range for the Tech Level IV position (4 years of police dispatching experience) is $65,603.20 - $67,558.40 annually.
• The salary range for the Tech Level V position (5 years of police dispatching experience) is $69,596.80 - $85,800 annually.
• This position is eligible for up to a 10% shift differential for shift hours worked.
• The selected candidate will receive a $2,500 signing bonus and a one-time payment of $2,500 after successful completion of the training program (usually within 8 – 12 months).
• A $2,500 referral bonus is available to current CUPD staff within divisional guidelines.

• Experience in an occupational field related to the work assigned to the position as follows:
• Four years of related experience for Tech IV
• Five years of related experience for Tech V
• Appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.
• At least one year of police dispatching experience.
• Must be a Colorado resident to apply.

This position is designated “essential services.” The incumbent is required to respond to requests for work during campus emergencies (snow, wind, rain, flood and any other natural or man-made event) and report to work for his / her regularly assigned shift during emergency campus closures.