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"Police Detective"
Job Description - Part 4 - Abilities Needed

Part 1
Duties / Tasks
Part 2
Activities
Part 3
Skills
Part 4
Abilities
Part 5
Knowledge

Abilities Needed for: "Police Detective"

1) Inductive Reasoning -- The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).


2) Oral Comprehension -- The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.


3) Oral Expression -- The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.


4) Speech Recognition -- The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.


5) Near Vision -- The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).


6) Information Ordering -- The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).


7) Problem Sensitivity -- The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.


8) Flexibility of Closure -- The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material.


9) Deductive Reasoning -- The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.


10) Speech Clarity -- The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.


11) Speed of Closure -- The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns.


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12) Written Comprehension -- The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.


13) Written Expression -- The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.


14) Originality -- The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem.


15) Selective Attention -- The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted.


16) Far Vision -- The ability to see details at a distance.


17) Fluency of Ideas -- The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity).


18) Multilimb Coordination -- The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.


19) Category Flexibility -- The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.


20) Time Sharing -- The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources).


Job Description for "Police Detective" continued here...

Part 1
Duties / Tasks
Part 2
Activities
Part 3
Skills
Part 4
Abilities
Part 5
Knowledge


"Police Detective"   Holland / RIASEC Career Code:  E-S-I        SOC:  33-3021.01


 

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