General Duties:
General Duties Officers are the first point of contact between the public and the New South Wales Police Force. They are your local police officers working in your area; Local Area Commands (LAC).
This job withholds many duties in aspects of policing including:
- Attendance, assistance and investigation of daily jobs such as assaults, domestic violence, break & enters, property theft, and malicious damage
- Patrolling the streets and highways by either a vehicle or bicycle
- Traffic control and coordination of traffic accidents
- Responds to phone calls Triple 0 (000) and Police Assistant Line (PAL)
Specialist Units
After three years of General Duties policing, officers have the opportunity to specialise in a certain area of the force. They may continue to stay in operational policing as General Duties Officers, or choose to undertake further training and transfer into one of the many specialist areas within the force.
Specialised areas of the force include:
- Air Wing: The Police Air Wing provides state-wide assistance in all areas of the NSW Police Force including search and rescue, drug detection and high visibility policing. Each aircraft is fitted with a variety of electronic equipment, radios, search lights, cameras and rescue equipment.
- Bike Patrol: Bicycle Patrols are used to proactively target identified crime "hot spots". The use of bicycles in policing increases visibility, improves access to some restricted areas, provides the ability to operate with surprise and stealth, as well as being environmentally friendly. Police cyclists must be physically and mentally fit for the rigorous combination of riding and policing.
- Detectives: Detectives are based at Local Area Commands (LAC) and the State Crime Command. Duties of a detective can include: leading an investigation, building close relationships with victims and their families, interviewing witnesses, taking statements, conducting searches, as well as working with other specialist police. Essentially, detectives arrest, interview and charge suspects and put them before of the court.
- Dog Squad: The dogs are used for patrol duties and are German Shepherds or Rottweilers. The Labrador Retriever is the breed of choice for specialist detection.
Forensics: Duties of a Forensic officer include searching, recording, collecting and examining physical evidence. These investigators attend crimes such as robberies, assaults, fires and suspicious deaths. Forensic examination of a crime scene involves two main disciplines; fingerprints and physical evidence.
Highway Patrol: The roll of Highway Patrol Police is to reduce road trauma and allow the free movement of traffic and people. They encourage safe road user behaviour and compliance with traffic laws through high visibility policing. Fully marked Highway Patrol sedans and motorcycles are used for this purpose.
- Mounted Police: Duties include traffic and crowd management, patrols and ceremonial protocol duties.
- Police Rescue and Bomb Disposal Unit: Duties include rescue of people or domestic animals from actual or threatened danger of physical harm, rescue from heights, depths and confined spaces, search for missing bushwalkers/land search and provide lighting and searching of crime scenes.
- Water Police (Marine Area Command): Water Police attend marine related crimes and vessels in distress, as well as coordinating marine search and rescue. It now has one of the most modern fleets of ocean going vessels in Australia and covers the area from the Queensland to Victorian borders, up to 200 nautical miles out to sea.
General Duties Officers are the first point of contact between the public and the New South Wales Police Force. They are your local police officers working in your area; Local Area Commands (LAC).
This job withholds many duties in aspects of policing including:
- Attendance, assistance and investigation of daily jobs such as assaults, domestic violence, break & enters, property theft, and malicious damage
- Patrolling the streets and highways by either a vehicle or bicycle
- Traffic control and coordination of traffic accidents
- Responds to phone calls Triple 0 (000) and Police Assistant Line (PAL)
Specialist Units
After three years of General Duties policing, officers have the opportunity to specialise in a certain area of the force. They may continue to stay in operational policing as General Duties Officers, or choose to undertake further training and transfer into one of the many specialist areas within the force.
Specialised areas of the force include:
- Air Wing: The Police Air Wing provides state-wide assistance in all areas of the NSW Police Force including search and rescue, drug detection and high visibility policing. Each aircraft is fitted with a variety of electronic equipment, radios, search lights, cameras and rescue equipment.
- Bike Patrol: Bicycle Patrols are used to proactively target identified crime "hot spots". The use of bicycles in policing increases visibility, improves access to some restricted areas, provides the ability to operate with surprise and stealth, as well as being environmentally friendly. Police cyclists must be physically and mentally fit for the rigorous combination of riding and policing.
- Detectives: Detectives are based at Local Area Commands (LAC) and the State Crime Command. Duties of a detective can include: leading an investigation, building close relationships with victims and their families, interviewing witnesses, taking statements, conducting searches, as well as working with other specialist police. Essentially, detectives arrest, interview and charge suspects and put them before of the court.
- Dog Squad: The dogs are used for patrol duties and are German Shepherds or Rottweilers. The Labrador Retriever is the breed of choice for specialist detection.
Forensics: Duties of a Forensic officer include searching, recording, collecting and examining physical evidence. These investigators attend crimes such as robberies, assaults, fires and suspicious deaths. Forensic examination of a crime scene involves two main disciplines; fingerprints and physical evidence.
Highway Patrol: The roll of Highway Patrol Police is to reduce road trauma and allow the free movement of traffic and people. They encourage safe road user behaviour and compliance with traffic laws through high visibility policing. Fully marked Highway Patrol sedans and motorcycles are used for this purpose.
- Mounted Police: Duties include traffic and crowd management, patrols and ceremonial protocol duties.
- Police Rescue and Bomb Disposal Unit: Duties include rescue of people or domestic animals from actual or threatened danger of physical harm, rescue from heights, depths and confined spaces, search for missing bushwalkers/land search and provide lighting and searching of crime scenes.
- Water Police (Marine Area Command): Water Police attend marine related crimes and vessels in distress, as well as coordinating marine search and rescue. It now has one of the most modern fleets of ocean going vessels in Australia and covers the area from the Queensland to Victorian borders, up to 200 nautical miles out to sea.