p>Understand, interpret, and apply laws, regulations, and ordinances related to law enforcement, enforce laws and ordinances, be honest and tactful in both pleasant and unpleasant situations, evaluate situations and determine appropriate courses of action, apply proper techniques of arrest and restraint, obtain information through interviews, interrogations, and observations, record observations clearly and accurately, understand and follow oral and written instructions, communicate effectively both orally and in writing, exercise sound judgment and stay calm at all times, including stressful and emergency situations, work effectively with prisoners, fellow officers, public officials, the general public, and others, relate to a wide variety of socio-economic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, physically restrain or subdue suspects for the safety of themselves and others, work different shifts, weekends, holidays, and extended schedules, perform duties while wearing required safety equipment, safely operate emergency response vehicles, operate and care for a variety of specialized law enforcement equipment, including firearms, restraints, and tactical equipment, operate electronic communication equipment, operate basic computer hardware and software. Law enforcement practices, procedures, and resources, laws and ordinances of federal, state, and County, general law enforcement patrol and investigative practices and techniques, departmental policies and procedures, principles and methods of interviewing and interrogation, sociological concepts, and communication skills in dealing with a diverse population, self-defense tactics, procedures, and laws governing obtaining and preservation of evidence, methods of personal identification used in law enforcement, principles of normal and abnormal human behavior, community, public, and private agency resources, public relations techniques, first aid, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR use and care of firearms, police report writing techniques, basic computer, and modern office automation technology, and pertinent software programs.