Real Time Crime Center Technician - G118 - Investigative Services

Real Time Crime Center Technician - G118 - Investigative Services

Salary

$19.18 Hourly

Location

Public Safety, 510 10th Street, Columbus, GA

Job Type

Full-Time Regular

Job Number

2026-00000350

Department

Police Department

Division

Investigative Services

Opening Date

07/02/2026

Closing Date

8/2/2026 11:59 PM Eastern

• Description
• Questions

Major Duties and Responsibilities

The Real Time Crime Center Technician is responsible for surveillance, monitoring, and data storage from live camera feeds and other types of digital evidence.

• Actively searching for real-time camera assets and providing real-time situational awareness utilizing police radios and phones to respond to resources for priority calls.
• Working with multiple camera systems.
• Reviewing and creating digital evidence for officers, investigators, courts, open records requests, and other law enforcement partners.
• Performs other related job duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Basic working knowledge of computers.
• Years of experience using Windows operating systems based computers and basic knowledge of how computer file systems operate.
• Create and maintain department filing system.
• Monitor and operate integrated video systems and 911 calls for service.
• Monitor camera systems to provide situational awareness for first responders.
• Proactively monitor for public safety situations.
• Respond to requests for video evidence.
• Communicate with Offices and/or Command Posts.

Minimum Educational and Training Requirements

Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education. Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one to two years.

Physical Requirements

The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, stooping, walking, bending, or crouching. The employee occasionally lifts light objects, uses tools or equipment requiring a low degree of dexterity, and must be able to distinguish between shades of color. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Balancing - maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
• Feeling - perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
• Grasping - applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
• Handling - picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
• Hearing 1 - perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
• Hearing 2 - receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
• Lifting - raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
• Manual Dexterity - picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
• Reaching - extending hands or arms in any direction.
• Repetitive Motion - substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
• Speaking - expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
• Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
• Talking 2 - shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
• Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
• Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
• Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.

The work is typically performed in an office, library, computer room, or where the employee may be exposed to noise, contagious or infectious diseases.

01

Which best describes your level of education? (You will be asked to provide documentation)

• No High School Diploma
• GED
• High School Diploma
• Technical College
• Some College
• Associates Degree
• Bachelors Degree
• Masters Degree
• Doctorates Degree

02

How many years of work experience do you have with integrated camera systems or software systems?

• None
• 0 - 1 year
• 1 -3 years
• 3 - 5 years
• 5 years or more

03

Do you possess a valid drivers license?

• Yes
• No

04

Do you have any work experience with local, state, and federal criminal laws?

• Yes
• No

05

Please list and explain any work experience you have analyzing information both data and videos.

06

Please list and explain any work experience you may have working with IT software programs (players, data management, codec) or hardware equipment (video systems, computers, servers, etc.)

Required Question

Employer Columbus Consolidated Government

Address City Hall

1111 1st Avenue

Columbus, Georgia, 31901

Phone 706-225-4059

Website http://www.columbusga.gov/HR