Incumbents in this class may be responsible for overseeing and coordinating the work of subordinate officers on state property. Incumbents in this class are commissioned law enforcement officers and exercise law enforcement powers such as arrest, incarceration or service of criminal warrants or the power to direct such actions.
Incumbents report major crimes and deal with individuals involved with such crimes.
They are often physically removed from their supervisor and subject to only periodic checks. Where the employee is confronted with a variety of duties susceptible to different methods of solution which, in turn, places a correspondingly higher demand upon resourcefulness and concentration. Positions which require the analysis and evaluation of raw data and the rendering of conclusions would, in many instances, fall into this category. This level involves simple analysis of data, identification of easily distinguishable facts and recognition of differences in related situations. Workers at this level exercise limited independent judgment in determining methods or procedures to be used in making minor decisions.