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"Police Identification and Records Officer"
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 Identification and Records Officer"

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) 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.


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


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


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


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


7) 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).


8) 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.


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


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


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


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


13) Visual Color Discrimination -- The ability to match or detect differences between colors, including shades of color and brightness.


14) Arm-Hand Steadiness -- The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position.


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


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


17) Perceptual Speed -- The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.


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


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


20) Finger Dexterity -- The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.


21) Control Precision -- The ability to quickly and repeatedly adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to exact positions.


22) 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).


23) 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).


24) 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.


25) Manual Dexterity -- The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.


26) Depth Perception -- The ability to judge which of several objects is closer or farther away from you, or to judge the distance between you and an object.


27) Glare Sensitivity -- The ability to see objects in the presence of glare or bright lighting.


Job Description for "Police Identification and Records Officer" continued here...

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


"Police Identification and Records Officer"   Holland / RIASEC Career Code:  C-R-S        SOC:  33-3021.02


 

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