UC Santa Barbara

Chief of Police
Position # 20090024
Job Close Date: Open Until Filled
Primary Consideration Date: 03-03-2009 Click here to Download MSWord Version

Department Profile:

The UCSB Police Department strives to be a visible, proactive professional police agency, providing excellence in public service to a culturally diverse community. UCSB police officers have statewide jurisdiction, are duly sworn under section 830.2 of the California Penal Code, and are trained under state guidelines and mandates. The UCSB Police Department is a full service police organization and is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year. The Police Department employs 26 officers, seven sergeants, two captains, and the Chief. In addition, there are approximately seven dispatchers, 80 Community Service Officers, three paramedics, seven administrative staff and 12 student assistant rescue workers.

The Mission Statement of the department is to provide traditional and non-traditional police and public safety services. The department provides for the peace, safety and security of persons and facilities on university property.

The department's efforts are directed toward creating an environment where research, education, and public service flourish.

Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Summary of Job Duties:

Under the general direction of the Vice Chancellor for Administrative Services, the Chief of Police is responsible for, and has commensurate authority to, command, direct, and organize the campus Police Department. This includes establishing objectives for the department, developing policies and procedures on the campus, preparing the budget, and selecting, appointing, training, disciplining, and promoting officers and employees in the department. The Chief is responsible for providing and maintaining human safety and the security of campus property in the surrounding areas. The Chief plans, manages and directs the law enforcement of the campus, the Community Service Organization, Investigations, Rescue Services, the Emergency Communications Center and Criminal Records Bureau and the regulation and control of bicycles. In addition, the Chief represents the Police Department on campus, within the community, with outside law enforcement agencies, and participates on various campus committees regarding campus security and student safety for the campus community. The Chief must be committed to providing excellent customer service and community policing.

The Chief plays an integral part in the University's management team and has a highly visible role in the campus community and surrounding communities. Dedication to internal communications, employee involvement, campus interaction and participation, accountability at all levels within the agency and unquestionable personal and professional ethics are essential.

Minimum Requirements:

Must be a sworn officer and able to meet California POST certification within a year of appointment. A bachelor's degree or combination of education and experience is required, with at least ten years of increasingly responsible law enforcement experience and at least five years of management and administrative responsibility. The successful candidate must be familiar with special and ongoing joint law enforcement operations involving university police and allied agencies, and must have strong leadership skills and effective written and oral communication skills.

Desirable Requirements:

Policing at an institution of higher education involving shared governance between campus constituents is desirable. Graduate degree and or advanced training such as the FBI Academy are also desirable.

Special Conditions of Employment:

Maintain a valid CA driver's license and a clean DMV record

Satisfactory completion of a fingerprint background check

Other Special Conditions of Employment Final candidate must pass an extensive background check including criminal history and identity check as well as medical and psychological examinations. Involves occasional evening, weekend and holiday work.

Duties:

As Chief of Police, manages the activities, programs, and operations of the UCSB Public Safety Department. Utilizes superior leadership skills to ensure an environment where collaboration, internal and external teamwork, impeccable community relations skills and a customer service orientation are the cornerstone of the departmental mission. Activities, programs and operations include the following:

A. Plans, manages, and directs the law enforcement function of the campus, which includes the regular police services of patrol, investigation, crime prevention, and community relations.

B. Plans, manages, and directs the Community Service Office Program, which consists of utilization of students as employees to perform such duties as patrol, escort service, security for on/off campus residence halls, community relations, special events, crime prevention, facilities security, fire watch, bike theft reports, and other noncriminal incidents, and performance of other tasks not requiring police officers.

C. Coordinates and plans Isla Vista Foot Patrol activities in cooperation with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department. The Isla Vista Foot Patrol (staffed by University and Sheriff's personnel) is a collaborative effort under the direction of the Sheriff and University Police Departments and provides police services (patrol, investigation, crime prevention, and community relations) to the Isla Vista residential and business community.

D. Plans, manages, and directs the Rescue Service that provides 24-hour ambulance, medical emergency aid and rescue services, as well as educational programs for students, faculty, staff and the Isla Vista community. Services include the development and presentation of training and education programs to department personnel and community members on such subjects as CPR and drug abuse.

E. Plans, manages, and directs the licensing, identification, regulation, and control of bicycles.

F. Plans, manages, and directs the Emergency Communications Center and the Criminal Records Bureau, in compliance with State and University mandates.

G. Plans and directs Public Safety activities and represents the department on the campus, within the community, and with law enforcement agencies at local, state, and federal levels.

H. Participates on various campus committees regarding issues related to campus security and student safety.

I. The Chief of Police has been designated by the Chancellor to be the Campus Security Survey Administrator for the Campus Crime and Security survey that is conducted each fall. As the CSSA, the chief is responsible for assuring the accuracy of all of the institution's data and the only person who formally transmits the information to the Department of Education

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