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Duties, Salary & Benefits
Duties of an Annapolis Police Officer
- Enforces the law and ordinances of the City and State
- Patrol an assigned area during a specific period and/or responds to a call in motorized police equipment or on foot
- Checks doors and windows and examines premises or unoccupied buildings or residences in order to detect any suspicious conditions
- Investigates suspicious conditions and complaints and makes arrests or persons who violate laws and ordinances
- Accompanies prisoners to headquarters, jail, or court and appears in court as arresting officer
- Directs traffic and wither arrests or gives violation tickets to those who break traffic laws
- Checks automobile parking in restricted areas and gives violation tickets when necessary
- Works at desk, answering telephone, dispatching patrol cars, operating radio transmitter, maintaining records, preparing reports, and performing other clerical and administrative duties
- Prepares and gives lectures to school, civic, and other groups
- Attends fires or accidents in assigned area as directed, gives all possible assistance and prepares necessary reports
- Maintains order in crowns and attends parades, funerals, or other public gatherings and quells rioters or other unruly disturbances
- Escorts funerals, parades, and other public processions
- Watches for stolen cars and wanted or missing persons
- Makes investigations and enforces City and State laws pertaining to juvenile offenders
- Answers criminal complaints and takes necessary corrective action
- Provides emergency first aid as required
- May be assigned to undercover or plainclothes investigative tasks
- Serves as crime laboratory officer, collecting and evaluating evidence, taking and processing photographs, etc
- Serves as drug custody coordinator
- Classifies police incident reports in accordance with uniform crime code
- Operates motorcycle, radio patrol car, or patrol wagon as required
Salary
Starting Salary for Entry Level Police Officer:
- $60,000
Lateral (MPCTC Certified) Police Officer:
- $61,500 to $106,569
Entry Level Police Officers receive yearly pay increases for the first 7 years, then at 10, 12, 15, 17, and 22 years.
Benefits
Benefits include:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 20 year retirement with 50% pension benefit, 75% pension benefit at 30 years
- Medical benefits after retirement
- Paid vacation, sick, and military leave
- Accrue 290 hours of paid leave a year
- Four hours minimum for court appearances outside of scheduled shift
- Current 12 hour patrol shift with a three day weekend off every other weekend.
- 457 plans
- Life insurance
- Short term and long term disability insurance
- Credit union services
- Equipment and uniforms
- Take home cars (including outside Annapolis and Anne Arundel County)
- Nightshift differential
- Promotional opportunities
- Police Academy and other professional training