Field Investigator - Boone County

at Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Bo in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Essential Functions

• Under direction of the Investigations Manager, serves as a sworn law enforcement investigator representing the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board (ILETSB) with full police powers.  


• Acts as a technically informed liaison between ILETSB and Illinois certified police training facilities.


• Conducts site visits at law enforcement agencies around the State to ensure the agencies and their officers maintain compliance with the Illinois Police Training Act, to include mandated training standards, mandated reporting, officer certification status, and adherence to all Board rules and regulations.


• Provides testimony based upon investigations before the Certification Review Panel at administrative hearings.


• Upon assignment, provides administrative investigation and security services for the Board and its various functions.


• Upon receipt of fraudulent/counterfeit training certificates/documents, conducts an investigation into the issuance/origin of the document to include interviews of the owner of the certificate and agency head.


• Performs speaking engagements on assignment by the Investigations Manager.


• Performs other duties as required or assigned which are reasonable within the scope of the duties enumerated above.

• Requires knowledge, skill and mental development equivalent to the completion of four (4) years of college, including courses in the field of police administration or public administration.


• Requires five (5) years of professional law enforcement experience as a sworn officer in good standing of a local, state or federal law enforcement agency.

• Ten (10) years of work experience conducting in-depth law enforcement investigations into criminal activity up to and including court testimony.


• Four (4) years of prior work experience investigating police misconduct or internal investigations.


• Five (5) years of work experience successfully performing general administrative duties including correspondence, preparation of professional reports, and analysis of programs.


• Four (4) years of work experience effectively utilizing police training methods and procedures.
  Extensive knowledge of the problems of crime and law enforcement on both the national and state levels.


• Extensive experience carrying out various public relations duties, including development of professional reports concerning the work of a law enforcement agency.

• Requires eligibility to be certified as an Illinois law enforcement officer, in good standing, within 90 days of hire.


• Requires valid Illinois driver’s license and the ability to travel in the performance of duties, with overnight stays as appropriate.


• Overtime is a condition of employment, and you may be requested or required/mandated to work overtime including scheduled, unscheduled, or last‐minute overtime. This requires the ability to work evenings and weekends.