GRADE: 9

SALARY: $35,178 – $44,876

POSITION TITLE: Clerk Typist – CID Desk Clerk

DEPARTMENT: Warrant/Fugitive

REPORTS TO: Commander of the Bureau of Support Operations

Position Summary

Performs duties to handle inquiries for the Warrants/Fugitive Division and file, verify, and maintain handwritten and computer records and warrants received from courts. 

FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB

Essential Functions

• Answers telephone and walk-in inquires and directs persons to appropriate personnel, unit or agency.
• Receives inquires by phone from districts, county, state and out-of-state agencies regarding warrants.  Verifies warrants using computer.  Removes physical warrants from file to verify information.  Records in warrant book and places warrants in book to be signed out by appropriate personnel.  Moves warrant to pick-up book if subject is to be picked up by officers.
• Enters arrest warrants using computer as received from courts and maintains file by warrant number.
• Telephones city and state courts to determine if warrants are still valid or to verify warrant information.
• Cancels warrants as indicated by cancellation list or letter from state courts using Regional Justice Information System (REJIS).  Cancels city warrants when arrests are made.  Locate warrants that require cancellation, but do not show records on computer in order to ascertain status.
• Record information on cash bonds posted for bench warrants.  Forwards bonds to court.
• Issues release forms for pick-up of autos towed due to outstanding warrants.
• May perform similar or related duties as assigned.
• Regular, punctual attendance is required.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• Experience with the equivalent of one year of clerical experience with additional specialized data entry and statistical typing skills.  Prior experience in dealing with the general public and customer service skills.
• Ability to obtain REJIS certification.

Knowledge:

•    Knowledge of clerical work.  A high school diploma or GED or technical diploma.

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to apply detailed understanding to warrant and fugitive data entries.
• Ability to deal with problems involving multiple variables in varied situations.
• Ability to respond to inquiries from other jurisdictions following rules of police procedure.
• Ability to deal with the general public in explaining police procedures.
• Data Utilization: Requires the ability to process, calculate, compute, summate, and/or tabulate data and/or information. Includes the ability to perform subsequent action in relation to these computational operations. 
• Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance and/or interpretation to others, such as coworkers and the public, on how to apply policies, procedures and standards to specific situations.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a telephone, typewriter, personal computer, computer terminal, calculator, copier, fax and scanner and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as ordinances, codes, requisitions, receipts, invoices, billing statements, transaction forms, worksheets, waivers, forms, vouchers, and purchase orders.
• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate decimals and percentages.
• Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral or diagram form. Involves semi-routine standardized work, with some latitude for independent judgment regarding choices of action.
• Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against measurable or verifiable criteria.
• Environmental Factors: Work is normally performed in an office environment under generally safe and comfortable conditions where exposure to irate individuals poses a very limited risk of injury.
• Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to exert light physical effort, typically involving some combination of lifting and carrying objects of light weight, five (5) to ten (10) pounds, such as file boxes, mail crates and packages. Requires the ability to stoop, kneel and bend in order to perform filing duties. Tasks may involve extended periods of time at a keyboard or workstation.
• Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize individual characteristics of sounds such as that associated with answering the telephone. 

Working Environment:

• Normal office environment with attending outside functions when required.

Machines, Tools, Equipment and Work Aids: 

• Personal Computer
• Telephone
• Cell Phone
• Copier/Fax Machine
• Vehicle

PHYSICAL/VISUAL ACTIVITIES OR DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, reach, grasp, talk, and hear.

This position requires clarity of vision at 20 inches or less and the ability to bring objects into sharp focus, while reading from a computer screen.

The job has light physical demand (primarily sedentary) requiring the employee to exert negligible force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects in the normal course of routine office activities.

The St. Louis Metropolitan is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The job description does not necessarily contain all of the actual or essential duties of this position.  All job offers are contingent upon passing a medical evaluation/drug screen and criminal background check.

Certain job functions described herein may be subject to possible modification in accordance with applicable state and federal laws.  

“Commonly associated” is not intended to mean always or only. There are different experiences that suggest other ways or circumstances where reasonable changes or accommodations are appropriate.