Armed Reaction Officer (Business Parks)

When a panic button goes off in a mixed-use neighbourhood in Roodepoort, you are the one who arrives first. Expect to be trusted with real work from your first week.

This post is Roodepoort-based, with most of your time spent at a mixed-use neighbourhood. Most weeks are 45 hours, in line with the BCEA.

• Drive the response vehicle safely at speed to client addresses
• Do vehicle checks: tyres, fuel, lights and siren
• Carry out visible patrols through the sector between call-outs
• Respond to alarm and panic signals sent by the control room
• Check the firearm in and out of the safe at shift start and end
• Search the property perimeter and check doors, windows and gates

• Able to work 12-hour rotating shifts
• Valid Code 8 or Code 10 licence with at least 2 years driving
• PSIRA Grade B or C with an armed response course
• SAPS firearm competency certificate for handguns (and shotgun if required)
• Calm under pressure and physically fit
• Clean criminal record and no pending cases

• Danger and night allowances
• Response vehicle and firearm provided
• Regular refresher shooting practice
• Group life cover through the provident fund

• Bring the originals of your certificates to the interview. Armed companies verify them before a shooting test.
• Put your firearm competency and armed response course at the top. Without both, the CV is not read further.