Supervisory Police Officer

Summary

This position is located within the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Operations, Security, and Preparedness (OSP), Field Operations, VA Police Service. VA Police Service provides Federal law-enforcement, protective, investigative, emergency-response, and related public-safety services in support of Veterans, employees, affiliates, contractors, visitors, and others who receive services, work, or visit VA facilities and properties.

Duties

Major Duties: Second-Level Supervision and Operational Direction Directs, coordinates, and evaluates law-enforcement operations through subordinate first-level Supervisory Police Officers. Establishes and adjusts operational priorities, staffing arrangements, deployment, schedules, and work procedures among subordinate shifts or functions in response to workload, threat conditions, crime patterns, staffing limitations, special events, emergencies, and mission requirements. Makes decisions on technical, operational, and supervisory problems elevated by subordinate supervisors. Resolves matters that cannot be effectively addressed at the first supervisory level because of legal complexity, conflicting or incomplete facts, cross-unit effects, significant risk, sensitive circumstances, resource conflicts, or the need for higher-level coordination. Technical Law-Enforcement Direction and Complex Investigations Serves as a senior operational and technical law-enforcement resource for subordinate supervisors on complex matters involving Federal police authority; exclusive, concurrent, and proprietorial jurisdiction; Federal, State, and local criminal law; constitutional requirements; arrest and detention authority; search and seizure; probable cause; warrants; rules of evidence; criminal procedure; use of force; evidence preservation; chain of custody; and referral of cases for prosecution or other appropriate action. Provides second-level technical review of significant, sensitive, complex, or prolonged investigations. Evaluates investigative strategy, jurisdiction, probable cause, legal sufficiency, evidentiary development, witness and suspect interviews, physical and electronic evidence, report quality, charging considerations, case disposition, and case completeness. Identifies deficiencies and directs additional investigative steps or corrective actions before referral or closure. Critical Incident Command and Emergency Operations Provides second-level command and supervisory direction during significant incidents, including active threats, violent crimes in progress, major uses of force, serious assaults, highrisk searches or apprehensions, barricaded subjects, threats to Government officials or VA facilities, major disturbances, missing high-risk persons, infrastructure failures, disasters, and other events that threaten life, property, continuity of operations, or critical VA functions. Policy Interpretation, Compliance, and Quality Assurance Monitors changes in Federal and State law, court decisions, legal precedent, VA lawenforcement authority, Departmental directives, operational policy, technology, policing practices, threat information, and other developments that may affect VA Police operations. Determines operational implications and develops, recommends, or implements changes to procedures, supervisory controls, training, deployment practices, and enforcement methods within delegated authority. Supervisory and Managerial Authorities Exercises recurring delegated supervisory and managerial authorities over subordinate supervisors and employees. Plans work; establishes and adjusts priorities; assigns or approves assignments; evaluates subordinate supervisory performance; provides advice, counsel, and instruction; resolves work problems and employee complaints within delegated authority; identifies training and developmental requirements; and takes action to improve organizational performance and work quality. Interagency Coordination and Representation Establishes and maintains professional working relationships with Federal, State, county, municipal, tribal, and other law-enforcement and public-safety organizations, prosecutors, courts, attorneys, emergency management organizations, and VA officials. Coordinates investigations, incident response, prisoner or evidence matters, mutual support, information exchange, and other operational requirements consistent with law and policy. Work Schedule: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Position Description/PD#: Supervisory Police Officer/PD99814S Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not authorized Critical Skills Incentive (CSI): Not approved Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not authorized Preferred Experience: Supervisory experience preferred. Las Enforcement experience preferred. Physical Requirements: The work includes substantial supervisory and administrative duties but requires the incumbent to maintain readiness to perform Federal police duties. When operationally necessary, the incumbent may engage in running, climbing, prolonged standing, lifting or carrying equipment or persons over 50 pounds, pursuing or restraining resistant individuals, wearing protective equipment, and other strenuous activities associated with armed law-enforcement response.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, applicants must meet all requirements by the closing date of this announcement, 11/13/2026. Time-In-Grade Requirement: Applicants who are current Federal employees and have held a GS grade any time in the past 52 weeks must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the closing date of this announcement. For a GS-11 position you must have served 52 weeks at the GS-09. The grade may have been in any occupation, but must have been held in the Federal service. An SF-50 that shows your time-in-grade eligibility must be submitted with your application materials. If the most recent SF-50 has an effective date within the past year, it may not clearly demonstrate you possess one-year time-in-grade, as required by the announcement. In this instance, you must provide an additional SF-50 that clearly demonstrates one-year time-in-grade. Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to former Federal employees applying for reinstatement as well as current employees applying for Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment. To qualify for this position you must possess: At least one (1) full year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service (or equivalent pay band), that provided a knowledge of a body of basic laws and regulations, law enforcement operations, practices, and techniques and involved responsibility for maintaining order and protecting life and property. Specialized experience includes: leading and directing employees in their duties in response to potential threats of violence, detecting criminal activity, fire and other emergencies; enforcing federal, state, and local laws; making arrests; conducting foot and vehicle patrol; maintaining control of a scene or incident; taking statements from witnesses/suspects and advising them of their rights; preparing detailed reports of criminal offenses, violations, incidents, and citations issued; interrogating suspects; and applying all correct rules of search and seizure. Creditable specialized experience may have been gained in work on a police force; through service as a military police officer; in work providing visitor protection and law enforcement in parks, forests, or other natural resource or recreational environments; in performing criminal investigative duties; or in other work that provided the required knowledge and skills. Driver's License Requirement: Applicants must possess a valid, unrestricted State driver's license, have a safe driving record, and demonstrate that he or she is medically qualified to operate the appropriate motor vehicle safely. Applicants are required to pass agency Government Vehicle Drivers physical examination. NOTE: We ca