Protect life and property. • Conduct foot, bicycle and vehicle patrols of University of California properties (campus, medical centers, Westwood properties and nearby residential area). • Enforce the laws. • Identify and conduct preliminary investigations of suspicious persons and circumstances. • Respond to 'calls for service' for crimes in progress or suspicious circumstances. • Be highly visible to act as a deterrent to crime. • Liaison with local law enforcement agencies when patrolling in concurrent jurisdictions. • Focus patrol efforts on current problem areas involving crime, high volume of calls for service and quality of life issues. • Maintain awareness of current crime trend, neighborhood problems and departments efforts underway to address these issues. • Identify quality of life issues and work with staff and community members to address solutions. • Identify and make recommendations to reduce or eliminate conditions that are unsafe or lead to opportunities of crime. • Provide crime prevention brochures and literature as appropriate. • Participate in crime prevention programs (e.g. Neighborhood Watch, Click-it or Ticket). • Provide escorts to University employees who handle transfers of large sums of money to various campus locations. • Enhance public safety awareness and prevent crime through education, environmental design and outreach. • Utilize and develop crime prevention strategies and integrate them into daily patrol and investigative duties. • Investigate crime and write preliminary investigation reports. • Interview witnesses and suspects as needed. • Complete field interview cards and issue warnings to suspicious persons. • Prepare reports of lost or found property. • Photograph crime scenes. • Retrieve latent fingerprints as crime scenes. • Conduct follow-up investigations and prepare reports for cases under investigation as needed. • Initiate and build problem-solving partnerships with campus community groups and key community members. • Represent the department and University in a professional manner to the public. • Promote a service-oriented attitude to the community and public. • Facilitate community access to other campus and service departments. • Communicate effectively with a wide variety of people, remaining open to the viewpoints of others, listening well and demonstrating sensitivity to cultural differences. • Investigate traffic accidents. • Prepare Accident Investigation reports. • Enforce provisions of the Vehicle Code by issues citations for moving violations and parking infractions. • Store or impound abandoned or illegally parked vehicles. • Enforce parking regulations on roadways, parking lots and other areas as necessary and required. • Make arrests of actual or suspected criminal offenders. • Prepare cases for prosecution. • Testify in criminal and civil courts of law. |