Job Description
Animal Control Officer's job duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Respond to complaints and reports regarding animals.
- Impound animals in accordance with local and state laws for care and control of animals.
- Handles reports of vicious, injury inflicting animals; impounds or quarantines offending animal, advises animal owner of applicable laws, and issues summons when needed.
- Issues summons, secures warrants and petitions, prepares court documentation, and testifies in court as required.
- Communicates via radio or telephone with dispatch, other ACOs, police officers, fire department, etc.
- Investigates animal killings, cruelty to animal, inadequate care of animals, dangerous dog, and nuisance animal complaints.
- Educates the public on proper control, care, and protection of domestic animals, on dealing with wild animals, and stray or vicious domestic animals.
- Assists citizens with nuisance wildlife; refers complaints to other agencies or organizations as needed.
- Performs humane euthanasia on healthy, sick, injured, feral, and vicious animals.
- Performs field euthanasia of injured deer by firearm.
- Rechecks cruelty situations to verify follow through with corrective action.
- Returns telephone calls, checks voicemail messages, and completes paperwork.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure for a full list of benefits and employee perks.
Animal Control Officer's job duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Respond to complaints and reports regarding animals.
- Impound animals in accordance with local and state laws for care and control of animals.
- Handles reports of vicious, injury inflicting animals; impounds or quarantines offending animal, advises animal owner of applicable laws, and issues summons when needed.
- Issues summons, secures warrants and petitions, prepares court documentation, and testifies in court as required.
- Communicates via radio or telephone with dispatch, other ACOs, police officers, fire department, etc.
- Investigates animal killings, cruelty to animal, inadequate care of animals, dangerous dog, and nuisance animal complaints.
- Educates the public on proper control, care, and protection of domestic animals, on dealing with wild animals, and stray or vicious domestic animals.
- Assists citizens with nuisance wildlife; refers complaints to other agencies or organizations as needed.
- Performs humane euthanasia on healthy, sick, injured, feral, and vicious animals.
- Performs field euthanasia of injured deer by firearm.
- Rechecks cruelty situations to verify follow through with corrective action.
- Returns telephone calls, checks voicemail messages, and completes paperwork.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
The City of Chesapeake offers an exceptional range of benefits. Please browse our Benefits Brochure for a full list of benefits and employee perks.
About City of Chesapeake
Chesapeake, Virginia is a vibrant community that enjoys the best of two worlds, one of urban variety, culture, and excitement, and another of rural landscapes and relaxed living.
Located 20 minutes from the oceanfront, 15 minutes from downtown Norfolk, and 45 minutes from Colonial Williamsburg and the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Chesapeake is the perfect place in which to live, work, and raise a family.
Home to beautiful parks, lakes, and rivers, Chesapeake has more miles of deepwater canals (part of the Intracoastal Waterway) than any other city in the country!
The City of Chesapeake was formed through the merger of the City of South Norfolk and Norfolk County in 1963. It’s a community of communities, with each having its own distinctive history.
Over the last decade, many national and international companies have taken advantage of the City’s ports, atmosphere, and highly qualified labor market by relocating to Chesapeake.
Chesapeake’s neighborhoods offer a variety of comfortable housing alternatives, from apartments and town homes, to single-family residences and executive homes. The City is consistently ranked by the FBI as one of the safest U.S. cities (with populations over 150,000), which lends to the safe, community atmosphere that residents enjoy.
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