00101013 - AGENT, ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONT
Agent positions are located statewide.
Competitive candidates should demonstrate integrity, initiative, dependability, sound judgment, emotional stability, tact, professional restraint, and the ability to work cooperatively with others. Candidates should be able to make reasonable decisions under pressure, work through ambiguity, communicate honestly and professionally, and maintain credibility with supervisors, peers, prosecutors, allied law enforcement partners, members of the Department’s other divisions, and members of the public.
Strong candidates should also demonstrate disciplined curiosity, follow through, resilience, and ownership of assigned work. A detective must be willing to identify leads, ask appropriate follow up questions, document work accurately, close investigative loops, and recognize when a matter should be elevated, expanded, narrowed, or closed. Candidates should be able to operate in criminal enforcement environments without unnecessary escalation, ego driven decision making, or activity for activity’s sake.
Candidates should possess the judgment and maturity necessary to conduct sensitive criminal investigations, handle confidential information, work irregular hours, travel as needed, assist with enforcement operations, and represent the Division in a manner that supports public trust, officer safety, prosecutorial integrity, and long-term Division credibility.
In addition to meeting the minimum qualifications for the classification, desirable candidates will have education, training, experience, or demonstrated ability in areas such as the following:
- Conducting or assisting with criminal investigations from initial lead through the entirety of a investigation, documentation, arrest, warrant service, case filing, or prosecution.
- Evaluating, planning, and conducting investigations of varying complexity.
- Preparing clear, accurate, and complete investigative reports, case summaries, affidavits, search warrants, arrest warrants, operational plans, or prosecution packages.
- Articulating and documenting actions taken during enforcement, investigative, legal, or court related processes.
- Interpreting and applying laws, policies, legal procedures, and Departmental requirements.
- Recognizing and identifying the elements of a crime.
- Gathering, preserving, documenting, and analyzing evidence.
- Using a logical, systematic, and sequential approach to investigative problems.
- Interviewing victims, witnesses, complainants, suspects, business owners, employees, industry members, or law enforcement partners.
- Conducting or assisting with surveillance, deconfliction, officer safety planning, warrant service, arrest operations, or other field enforcement activity.
- Coordinating with prosecutors, allied law enforcement agencies, regulatory staff, analysts, or other governmental partners.
- Working cases involving multiple suspects, locations, businesses, properties, vehicles, records, communications, financial indicators, electronic evidence, licensing issues, or criminal networks.
- Identifying ownership, management, financing, supply, transportation, distribution, labor exploitation, violence, fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, environmental harm, or other criminal infrastructure connected to unlawful commercial cannabis activity.
- Using complaints, criminal intelligence, records, databases, open-source information, shipping information, financial indicators, partner referrals, or analytical products to identify and develop investigative leads.
- Understanding cannabis enforcement, narcotics investigations, underground economies, business structures, fraud, or attempts to exploit lawful markets for unlawful activity.
- Testifying in court, preparing for testimony, working with prosecutors, or understanding how investigative decisions affect later prosecution.
- Completing relevant investigative, narcotics, cannabis, financial crimes, tax evasion, money laundering, organized crime, search warrant, interview, surveillance, digital evidence, open-source intelligence, courtroom testimony, leadership, or officer safety training.
Desirable education may include coursework, certificates, or degrees in criminal justice, public administration, business administration, accounting, finance, fraud examination, intelligence studies, homeland security, organizational leadership, law, legal studies, psychology, sociology, communications, cybercrime, digital forensics, data analytics, or information systems.
The most competitive candidates will be able to demonstrate that their education, training, and experience support the ability to conduct complex investigations, apply sound investigative judgment, think critically and creatively, write clearly, develop cases beyond the initial enforcement action, understand applicable legal standards, analyze information, coordinate effectively with partners, maintain officer safety, and recognize when a criminal investigation should be developed beyond the initial complaint, location, seizure, or arrest.
