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Direct law enforcement activities

Leading people runs on trust, presence and reading the situation: motivating, correcting, backing people up and taking responsibility. AI can't do that for you.

Part of Direct legal activities, under the O*NET work activity group Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 1 AI-assist, 5 stays human).

Tasks built on this activity

• Supervise law enforcement staff, such as jail staff, officers, and deputy sheriffs.Stays human Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
• Direct release or transfer of prisoners.Stays human First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives
• Discipline staff for violation of department rules and regulations.Stays human First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives
• Prepare budgets and manage expenditures of department funds.Stays human First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives

Tasks where it is part of the work

• Investigate or direct investigations of freight theft, suspicious damage or loss of passengers' valuables, or other crimes on railroad property.AI-assist Transit and Railroad Police
• Monitor and evaluate the job performance of subordinates, and authorize promotions and transfers.Stays human First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives