Employment Percentage
-89.68253968
SOC Title
Transit and Railroad Police
Ed Level High School
20.57
Ed Level Certificate
13.78
Ed Level Some College
25.93
Typical Ed Level
a Bachelor's degree
Career Description
Protect and police railroad and transit property, employees, or passengers.
Core Tasks
- Prepare reports documenting investigation activities and results.
- Monitor transit areas and conduct security checks to protect railroad properties, patrons, and employees.
- Apprehend or remove trespassers or thieves from railroad property or coordinate with law enforcement agencies in apprehensions and removals.
- Patrol railroad yards, cars, stations, or other facilities to protect company property or shipments and to maintain order.
- Investigate or direct investigations of freight theft, suspicious damage or loss of passengers' valuables, or other crimes on railroad property.
- Direct security activities at derailments, fires, floods, or strikes involving railroad property.
- Examine credentials of unauthorized persons attempting to enter secured areas.
- Enforce traffic laws regarding the transit system and reprimand individuals who violate them.
- Provide training to the public or law enforcement personnel in railroad safety or security.
- Plan or implement special safety or preventive programs, such as fire or accident prevention.
Start Annual Earnings
40450.06
Top Annual Earnings
90879.34
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