Staff Sergeant, Traffic - Alberta Sheriffs Police Service

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Inspector of Traffic, the Staff Sergeant, Traffic, provides frontline supervisory leadership for traffic enforcement operations, ensuring the effective deployment of personnel and resources to reduce roadway risk and support public safety outcomes.

The Staff Sergeant exercises first-line management authority over traffic units, overseeing enforcement activity, operational coordination, and personnel performance. The role ensures alignment with organizational priorities, including collision reduction, impaired driving enforcement, and targeted risk-based initiatives.

The position is accountable for traffic enforcement outcomes and maintains situational awareness of traffic trends, collision data, and enforcement activity. Using data-driven insights, the Staff Sergeant directs resources, adjusts priorities, and ensures operational effectiveness.

The position balances real-time operational demands with longer-term planning, team development, and continuous improvement, while ensuring compliance with applicable legislation, policing standards, and organizational policies.

All responsibilities of this position are performed in compliance with applicable legislation (including the Police Act (Alberta) and the Traffic Safety Act), Provincial Policing Standards, and ASPS policies and procedures.

This includes accountability for reducing high-risk driving behaviors, improving roadway safety outcomes, and contributing to measurable reductions in collisions, injuries, and fatalities.

Key Responsibilities

•    Lead and direct traffic enforcement operations targeting high-risk driving behaviors (e.g., speed, impaired driving, distracted driving).
•    Deploy personnel and resources based on traffic data, collision trends, and operational priorities.
•    Coordinate planned enforcement initiatives, including check stops, targeted campaigns, and seasonal operations.
•    Monitor enforcement outcomes and adjust tactics to improve operational effectiveness and impact.
•    Identify traffic safety risks and align enforcement strategies to reduce collisions, injuries, and fatalities.
•    Supervise and manage personnel performance, including coaching, feedback, and addressing performance issues.
•    Ensure compliance with legislation, policies, and professional standards through review of enforcement activity and reporting.
•    Coordinate operational response to major collisions, road closures, and high-impact events, ensuring integration with patrol and partner agencies.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies: https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

•    Drive for Results: Accountable for enforcement outcomes; monitors performance and adjusts operations to achieve measurable traffic safety impacts.
•    Build Collaborative Environments: Promotes teamwork and coordination across units and partners to support public safety objectives.
•    Develop Networks: Builds and maintains relationships with internal and external stakeholders to advance traffic safety initiatives.
•    Systems Thinking: Aligns enforcement strategies with legislation, organizational priorities, and broader public safety goals.
•    Creative Problem Solving: Uses data and operational insight to identify risks and implement targeted enforcement strategies.
•    Agility: Adapts to changing operational demands and emerging risks in a dynamic environment.
•    Develop Self and Others: Supports performance, coaching, and development to maintain team capability and standards.

Qualifications

A university degree in Criminology, Police Studies, Criminal Justice, or other behavioral Sciences (Psychology, Sociology, etc.) relevant to law enforcement, plus seven (7) years of operational policing experience, including traffic enforcement, fatal collision investigation and supervision.

Preference will be given to candidates with ten (10) or more years of operational policing experience, consistent with industry standards.

Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:

•    one year of experience for one year of education.

Requirements:

•    Strong knowledge of traffic legislation, enforcement practices, and roadway safety principles.
•    Demonstrated experience in traffic operations, collision response, and enforcement strategy.
•    Supervisory experience including personnel management and performance oversight.
•    Experience in operational planning, deployment, and resource coordination.
•    Demonstrated experience in conducting motorcycle motorcade escorts.
•    Sound judgment, decision-making, and problem-solving skills.
•    Effective communication for briefings, debriefings, and operational reporting. This includes demonstrated experience conducting interviews with media.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

Please note that there is one (1) permanent, full-time position available.

Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8:15am to 4:30pm, 36.25 hours per week

•    Please note a cover letter explaining how you meet the requirements and assets of the role is required. 
•    Final candidates will be required to undergo enhanced security screening. 
•    Valid Class 5 Alberta Driver's License or equivalent is required 
•    This competition may be used to fill current and future vacancies across government.
•    Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

Links and information on what the GoA has to offer to prospective employees.

•    Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
•    Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
•    Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
•    Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
•    Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
•    Leadership and mentorship programs.