Photographer I – St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department

GRADE: 10

SALARY: $35,464 – $48,802

POSITION TITLE: Photographer I

DEPARTMENT: Laboratory/Identification

REPORTS TO: Laboratory Manager

Position Summary

This place performs images duties for the Police Division. Duties embrace taking/processing pictures of division workers, victims, suspects, and proof, logging photographic proof and growing and printing pictures from digital media.  

FUNCTIONS OF THE JOB

Essential Functions

• Photographs and processes pictures of Department workers, together with civilians, officers, commanders, and police board members.
• Logs photographic proof utilizing Justice TRAX computerized proof monitoring system, logs movie into Photo Lab Log.
• Develops and prints pictures from digital media acquired from a number of models utilizing computerized growing and printing tools, and customized printing (coloration and black and white).
• Photographs victims, suspects, and proof, as wanted.
• Creates copy pictures from prints.
• Maintains recordsdata of photographic negatives.
• Maintains digital pictures utilizing the Digital Imaging Management System (DIMS).
• Upon request, prints from earlier instances for investigative models and the Circuit Attorney’s Office. Customizes prints for particular instances.
• Performs particular images assignments akin to public affairs occasions (award ceremonies), Academy Graduations, Officer of the Year award luncheons, Police Board conferences (as requested), aerial images utilizing the Department helicopter (as requested), and others permitted by the Laboratory listing or assistant director.
• Scans and corrects/repairs negatives and prints utilizing quite a lot of imaging scanners.
• Corrects photographic photos utilizing Adobe Photoshop.
• Responsible for easy upkeep of all photographic tools and provides.
• Testifies in courtroom regarding crime scene pictures and chain of custody of negatives and digital photos.
• Serves because the backup DIMS administrator.
• Complies with revisions once in a while after mutual session.
• Regular, punctual attendance is required.
• Sort supplies in a prescribed method; carry out bodily inventories; alter filters and so forth.
• Make exact, expert and managed arm-hand actions, bend and stoop to acquire pictures, elevate arms above shoulder degree.
• Knowledge of images together with shutter speeds, aperture settings, depth of area, flash images, cameras, lenses, tripods.
• Knowledge about utilizing Adobe Photoshop software program.

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS

• A highschool diploma or General Educational Development (G.E.D.) certificates
• Two years of expertise in images with expertise working in a computerized picture lab. OR an equal mixture of schooling, coaching and expertise. Must be educated of various digicam codecs, movie sorts, photographic lighting, flash images, and evening images
• Must possess and keep a legitimate Missouri driver’s license whereas employed by the City of St. Louis.
• This place will, every so often, require working stand-by, callouts, and additional time.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Data Utilization: Requires the power to carry out fundamental degree of information evaluation together with the power to assessment, classify, categorize, prioritize and/or reference knowledge, statutes and/or tips and/or group, rank, examine and diagnose. Requires discretion in figuring out and referencing such to established requirements to acknowledge interactive results and relationships.
• Human Interaction: Requires the power to offer steerage, help and/or interpretation to others, akin to coworkers, on learn how to apply insurance policies, procedures and requirements to particular conditions.
• Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the power to function, calibrate, tune and synchronize, and carry out complicated fast adjustment on tools, equipment and instruments akin to varied varieties of cameras, photographic processors, photographic printers, laptop, computerized photographic tools/mini lab, and movie scanners.
• Verbal Aptitude: Requires the power to make the most of quite a lot of reference, descriptive and advisory knowledge and data akin to program specs, technical working manuals, work requisitions, run books, procedures, and non-routine correspondence.
• Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the power to carry out addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages and decimals. 
• Functional Reasoning: Requires the power to use ideas of rational methods. Ability to interpret directions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule type. Ability to train impartial judgment to undertake or modify strategies and requirements to satisfy variations in assigned targets.
• Situational Reasoning: Requires the power to train the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in conditions involving the analysis of knowledge towards measurable or verifiable standards.
• Environmental Factors: Good working circumstances. Some publicity to parts akin to odors, noise and/or chemical compounds. Required to put on a respirator whereas mixing chemical compounds for photographic processing.
• Physical Requirements: Tasks contain the power to exert mild bodily effort in sedentary to mild work, however which can contain some lifting, carrying, pushing and pulling of objects weighing as much as forty-five (45) kilos akin to {photograph} tools or provides. Tasks could contain prolonged intervals of time at a keyboard or workstation.
• Sensory Requirements: Requires the power to acknowledge and establish particular person traits of colours, shapes and sounds related to job-related objects, supplies and duties.

Working Environment:

• Normal workplace atmosphere with attending exterior features when required.

Machines, Tools, Equipment and Work Aids: 

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

PHYSICAL/VISUAL ACTIVITIES OR DEMANDS