There is hereby established, within the office of the Director of Public Safety a position to be known as Personnel Counselor. It shall be the duty of such Personnel Counselor to work with the Civil Service Commission in setting up standards and criteria for the measurement and rating of on the job performance of each uniformed member of the Division of Police, together with a psychological evaluation of the individual’s ability to perform the tasks presently assigned to him or her.
In addition, such Personnel Counselor shall personally interview each member of the uniform ranks, at least once in every two (2) year period, to evaluate the personal attitudes, difficulties and strengths of such personnel, so as to offer advice and assistance to such personnel as relates to his or her on- the-job performance and to make recommendations to the Director of Public Safety as to the proper job assignment of such personnel, to maximize the proper utilization of manpower in the Division of Police.
The Personnel Counselor shall keep written records of his or her evaluations and reports, which records shall be kept confidential and not open to public inspection; provided however such information as is obtained by such Personnel Counselor may be utilized in any authorized study or report, without using the name of any individual member of the Division of Police.
The Personnel Counselor may be a person assigned from the uniformed ranks or outside of the uniform ranks, but shall possess at least an undergraduate degree, from a recognized college or university, in the field of psychology or personnel psychology. The status within the uniform ranks, if appointed from the uniform ranks to the position of Personnel Counselor, and while serving therein, shall remain unchanged and no vacancy shall accrue to the uniform ranks thereby. Notwithstanding the compensation fixed by this section, the Personnel Counselor shall not acquire any rights to promotion other than such rights to promotion which apply to the rank held at the time of appointment as Personnel Counselor.
The annual compensation to be fixed by the Director of Public Safety shall be within the schedule of compensation hereby established:
Minimum
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Maximum
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Personnel Counselor | $18,000.00 | $21,000.00 |
(Ord. No. 1126-75. Passed 7-25-77, eff. 8-1-77)