Asset Forfeiture Coordinator G117 Police Department
Salary
$18.44 Hourly
Location
Public Safety, 510 10th Street, Columbus, GA
Job Type
Full-Time Regular
Job Number
2026-00000561
Department
Police Department
Division
Intelligence/Vice
Opening Date
09/24/2026
Closing Date
10/24/2026 11:59 PM Eastern
- Description
- Benefits
- Questions
Major Duties and Responsibilities
This position is responsible for initiating, preparing, and finalizing legal condemnations.
- Initiates, prepares, and finalizes legal condemnation documents to seize property for the Columbus Police Department Narcotics.
- Performs lien holder checks, title searches, and stolen vehicle status on all seized vehicles.
- Contacts lien holders and owners of seized vehicles to obtain information and documentation and to determine whether or not to proceed with forfeiture or to release vehicles to the proper parties.
- Applies for titles on all seized and fleet vehicles; applies for confidential tags on fleet vehicles for Narcotics and Vice; maintains current registration for all fleet vehicles.
- Enters all drugs and property seized into the Narcotics and Vice database for use in monthly reports.
- Travel and Training Coordination: Responsible for reviewing and approving employee travel and training requests, coordinating necessary arrangements, and ensuring appropriate accommodations are made in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.
- Travels to and from related offices and agencies to obtain signatures, documents, and information; delivers and retrieve forfeiture files and judgment orders; acts as a liaison between all related agencies and offices.
- Coordinates the sale of all property and vehicles received through court order for government auction.
- Receives and communicates drug, prostitution, gambling, and other complaints to appropriate personnel.
- Types, prepares, and maintains files of letters, memos, charts, and requests.
- Receives and distributes all correspondence including subpoenas.
- Orders and maintains supplies and equipment for office.
- Answers the telephone; responds to or routes calls.
- Appears in federal and state courts to provide testimony regarding documents pertaining to the seizure of property.
- Prepares purchase orders; reviews invoices for accuracy; obtains price quotes and writes equipment specs and handles accounts payable for the Police Department.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.
- Knowledge of modern office methods, procedures, and equipment.
- Skill in organizing work, setting priorities, meeting critical deadlines, and following up on assignments with a minimum of direction.
- Skill in the operation of computers and other standard office equipment.
- Skill in oral and written communication.
Minimum Educational and Training Requirements
Knowledge and level of competency commonly associated with the completion of specialized training in the occupational field, in addition to basic skills typically associated with a high school education. Sufficient experience to understand the basic principles relevant to the major duties of the position, usually associated with the completion of an apprenticeship/internship or having had a similar position for one to two years.
Possession of a valid driver's license to operate the motor vehicle assigned. Requirement exists at the time of hire and as a condition of continued employment.
Physical Requirements
The work is typically performed while intermittently sitting, standing, stooping, walking, bending, or crouching. The employee occasionally lifts light and heavy objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:
- Balancing - maintain equilibrium to prevent falling while walking, standing, or crouching.
- Feeling - perceiving attributes of objects by touch with skin, fingertips.
- Grasping - applying pressure to object with fingers, palm.
- Handling - picking, holding, or working with whole hand.
- Hearing 1 - perceiving sounds at normal speaking levels, receive information.
- Hearing 2 - receive detailed information, make discrimination in sound.
- Kneeling - bending legs at knee to come to rest at knees.
- Lifting - raising objects from lower to higher position, moving objects side to side, using upper extremities, back.
- Manual Dexterity - picking, pinching, typing, working with fingers rather than hand.
- Pulling - use upper extremities to exert force, haul or tug.
- Pushing - use upper extremities to press against objects with force, or thrust forward, downward, outward.
- Reaching - extending hands or arms in any direction.
- Repetitive Motion - substantial movements of wrists, hands, fingers.
- Speaking - expressing ideas with spoken word, convey detailed, important instructions accurately, concisely.
- Stooping - bending body downward, forward at waist, with full motion of lower extremities and back.
- Talking 1- expressing ideas by spoken word.
- Talking 2 - shouting to be heard above ambient noise.
- Visual Acuity 1 - prepare, analyze data, transcribing, computer terminal, extensive reading.
- Visual Acuity 2 - color, depth perception, field of vision.
- Visual Acuity 3 - determine accuracy, neatness, observe facilities/structures.
- Visual Acuity 4 - operate motor vehicles/heavy equipment.
- Visual Acuity 5 -close acuity for inspection of small defects, machines, use measurement devices, or fabricate parts.
- Walking - on foot to accomplish tasks, long distances, or site to site.
The work is typically performed in an office, library, or computer room.
The Columbus Consolidated Government is proud to offer an exceptional compensation and benefits package. Benefits include the following:
- Low-cost Medical Insurance
- Prescription Drug Plan
- Dental Plan
- Vision Plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Life Insurance
- Supplemental Life Insurance
- Long Term Disability
- Credit Union
- Direct Deposit
- 12 Paid Holidays
- Vacation Leave
- Sick Leave
- PERK Time Off
- Retirement Plan
- Supplemental Retirement Plan
- Free and Discounted Services
- Employee Assistance Program
Take advantage of these free and discounted City Services offered to all City Employees.
- Discounted Movie Tickets
- Free Notary Services
- Ride a Metra Bus for Free
- Free Mulch
- Free Fire/Safety Home Inspection
- Drivers Training for Employee Dependents
- Oxbow/Bull Creek Golf Course discounts
- River Center Discounts
- Cell Phone Carrier Discounts
Retirement Plan
The Columbus Consolidated Government offers a defined benefit retirement plan to eligible employees who work in General Government and in Public Safety. Employees in the pension plan must meet both age and years of service requirements to qualify for retirement. The current vesting period is ten years, and the current pension contribution rate is 8% of your gross salary.
Supplemental Retirement Plan
The Columbus Consolidated Government offers a Deferred Compensation Plan or supplemental retirement plan that is tax deferred. This plan allows employees to contribute a portion of their salary, before federal and state taxes, to a retirement account. Your compensation is more than a paycheck, it allows you to plan for your financial future as well.
01
Do you possess a valid drivers license?
02
Which best describes your level of education? (You will be asked to provide documentation)
- No High School Diploma
- GED
- High School Diploma
- Technical College
- Some College
- Associates Degree
- Bachelors Degree
- Masters Degree
- Doctorates Degree
03
Describe any work experience you have with the initiating and preparing and finalizing legal condemnation documents seizing property?
04
Describe any experience you have in running criminal background checks, vehicle / tag / title / searches or other information gathering.
05
Describe any experience you have in accounts payable, purchasing, or other accounting related tasks.
Required Question
Employer Columbus Consolidated Government
Address City Hall
1111 1st Avenue
Columbus, Georgia, 31901
Phone 706-225-4059
Website http://www.columbusga.gov/HR