Job Description:

• 1) Supervises and coordinates activities of police reserve officers to support police personnel at special functions: Writes news releases for press, radio, and television and speaks before community and business groups to recruit police reserve volunteers.

• 2) Confers with potential reservists to explain policies, duties, responsibilities, and working conditions, and to provide other pertinent information.

• 3) Reviews applications, results of physical and psychological examinations, oral interviews, and background information to determine suitability of candidates.

• 4) Plans and coordinates instruction to train reservists in basic police techniques.

• 5) Issues uniforms, arms, and equipment to reservists.

• 6) Reviews schedules to determine areas of need and coordinates assignments of reservists to support police personnel at special functions, such as parades and sporting events.

• 7) Observes reservists at work to evaluate work performance.