Principal Crime Analyst

Purpose

Every day is a chance to change your life. Are you looking for a career with purpose? Want a career in a fast-paced work environment? The door of opportunity has opened! Come envision your career with the Savannah Police Department!

The Savannah Police Department is looking for a dedicated, goal-oriented, and ambitious leader with the ability to lead, perform tactical, strategic, and administrative crime analyses while overseeing a group of analysts to join the Savannah Area Regional Intelligence Center as a Principal Crime Analyst. This position is responsible for providing supervisory principles and practices in identifying and implementing statistical and analytical methodology to support the department's crime reduction and prevention strategies. The Principal Crime Analyst will assist the Intelligence Unit Manager to ensure day-to-day operations and goals are achieved.

We offer great pay, excellent benefits to include medical, dental, and vision plans, life insurance, employee/spouse/child supplemental life insurance, short-term disability, tuition reimbursement, wellness programs, deferred compensation plan (457 B), pension plan, flexible spending account, employer home purchase assistance, employee referral program and12 paid holidays!

Women, Minorities, and Veterans Are Encouraged to Apply!

Essential Job Functions

• Supervises, directs, and evaluates assigned staff, processing employee concerns and problems, directing work, counseling, disciplining, and completing employee performance appraisals.

• Coordinates, assigns and reviews work and establishes work schedules; maintains standards; monitors status of work in progress; inspects completed work assignments; answers questions; gives advice and direction as needed.

• Performs intelligence analysis; aids in clarification of cases with multiple suspects and witnesses or involving multiple businesses; assists in the investigation of major cases with multiple suspects, a pattern, or similar trends.

• Performs tactical crime analyses, strategic crime analyses, and administrative crime analyses.

• Participates in and analyzes information for annual budget requests.

• Participates in special projects, including grant writing.

• Assists the patrol unit with mapping of all CID information.

• Identifies crime patterns.

• Initiates and disseminates crime and intelligence analysis reports and data related to crime series, trends, patterns, suspect individuals, and relationships between multiple suspects, witnesses, and locations.

• Works with other law enforcement agencies as necessary.

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Requires a Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Biological Science or related field supplemented by five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in Law Enforcement, crime analysis, legal analysis, public safety, biology or related field; related supervisory experience or possession of any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.

Work Location: 6600 Abercorn Work Hours: 8 am

• 5 pm, Monday

• Friday

Additional Requirements

Background investigation, including supervised drug screen, post offer/pre-employment medical screen; and verification of education, certifications, and licenses required prior to employment

Additional Information

• Knowledge of law enforcement administration, practices, and processes.

• Knowledge of crime analysis methods, including geographic information systems.

• Knowledge of statistical analysis methodology.

• Knowledge of intelligence gathering methods.

• Knowledge of department and city policies and procedures and federal, state, and local laws and regulations.

• Knowledge of intelligence analysis methods.

• Knowledge of management and supervisory techniques.

• Knowledge of the budget process.

• Knowledge of the resources available in the intelligence community.

• Skill in the use of specialized software, Arcview GIS, Analyst Notebook, video editing software, camera viewing software, Lexis Nexis, Tiburon RMS, CAD, Crystal Reports, and Web design.

• Skill in the use of computers and other standard office equipment.

• Skill in planning, organization, and decision making.

• Skill in oral and written communication.