I. GENERAL SUMMARY:

Reports to and receives assignments, instructions, and directions from Sergeants, Lieutenants, and Captains. Monitors vehicular traffic, issues traffic citations, removes dangerous and unlawful drivers and vehicles from the roadways, and investigates traffic accidents. Checks facilities and properties for possible criminal activity, and responds to and investigates reports of criminal activities, and public and domestic disturbances. Books individuals into jail, and observes, monitors, and controls jail inmates. Directs and controls inmates being transported outside the jail facility. Prepares courtrooms for trial activities, observes and monitors courtroom proceedings, and monitors and directs the activity of jury members outside the courtroom. Prepares and maintains records, logs, and reports of activities, incidents, and offenses. Performs other duties and activities as directed.

II. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

A. Operate police cruiser or motorcycle to patrol assigned geographical area.

B. Monitor and observe vehicular traffic, detect vehicles which are exceeding the speed limit or otherwise being driven in a dangerous or unlawful manner, stop vehicle and investigate circumstances, and issue traffic citations as warranted.

C. Respond to reports of traffic accidents, administer first-aid to injured persons and call for emergency medical assistance. Control and direct vehicular traffic and citizens at crime scene, conduct interviews with involved drivers and witnesses to obtain relevant facts and information, and gather material evidence from accident scenes.

D. Observe business and residential properties for possible criminal activity; including checking buildings for unauthorized entry, searching structures and property for intruders, and investigating suspicious persons and events.

E. Respond to reports of robberies, thefts, burglaries, homicides, etc. Administer first-aid to injured persons and call for emergency medical assistance, secure the crime scene, control and direct citizens at the scene, conduct interviews with complainants, victims, witnesses, and suspects to obtain relevant facts and information, and gather material evidence from the scene of the event.

F. Respond to reports of public and domestic disturbances, calm overly excited or agitated persons; including physically restraining unruly individuals. Conduct interviews with complainants and witnesses, obtain relevant facts and information, and mediate and resolve complaints and disputes.

G. Make arrests, including subduing individuals with appropriate action and force as necessary, placing individuals into handcuffs or other restraining devices, searching vehicles and persons under arrest for weapons and contraband, and transporting arrested individuals to detention facility.

H. Book inmates into Inmate Processing Center; including conducting inmate classification interviews, operating computer terminal to input, verify, and obtain information, fingerprinting and photographing inmates, counseling and advising inmates on jail rules and procedures, and preparing related documents.

I. Monitor jail alarm systems and operate controls for doors, elevators, and surveillance equipment.

J. Observe and monitor jail inmates to detect behavioral problems, adjustment difficulties, recognition of interpersonal problems and disputes, and identify unmanageable, suicidal, or mentally ill inmates.

K. Direct and control inmates to ensure appropriate behavior in cells in the jail area, during recreation and meals, and while escorting inmates within the jail premises.

L. Conduct “enters” into cells to ensure jail rules are being observed; including searching inmates and their personal items for weapons and contraband articles, and inspecting jail equipment, materials, and facilities for signs of tampering.

M. Supervise, instruct, direct, and control inmates performing internal work assignments.

N. Participate in inmate counts, including checking wristband and transfer card information and “freezing” the floor or building.

O. Monitor and control jail visitors, including verifying identity of visitor, purpose of visit, and eligibility of inmate to receive visitors, providing information and instructions to all parties, securing weapons, resolving visitor problems and complaints, and monitoring visitor and inmate interactions.

P. Calm nervous or agitated inmates and jail visitors, and physically restrain unruly inmates and visitors as necessary.

Q. Prepare inmates for transfer, including counseling and advising inmates on transfer rules and regulations, checking wristband and transfer card information, ensuring presence of inmate’s personal items, and putting inmates into handcuffs or other restraining devices.

R. Direct and control inmates to ensure appropriate behavior when being transported outside the jail facility, in court holding cells, on work assignments, or in clinic or hospital jail wards.

S. Prepare courtroom for daily activities; including reviewing docket, searching courtroom for weapons or contraband, reviewing status of inmates, and coordinating inmate schedules for court appearance.

T. Observe, monitor, and control courtroom proceedings; including announcing court actions, calling witnesses, and detecting and deterring disruptive and unruly behavior by trial participants or observers.

U. Direct activities of jury members during panel movements, voir dire, lunch breaks, and overnight and weekend sequestering.

V. Assemble supporting documentation and prepare narrative reports, memorandums, and notes of accidents, incidents, and offenses, and maintain and update manual records, logs, and periodic activity reports.

W. Maintain inventories of equipment, materials, and supplies required to support daily operations.

III. OTHER IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS:

A. Perform follow up investigations on reports of accidents and incidents; including verifying personal information and criminal histories, researching other sources to confirm details, determining value and reliability of physical evidence, and identifying, investigating, and resolving inconsistencies in statements or information obtained during initial investigations.

B. Enforce court orders; including serving summons, subpoenas, and restraining orders, and executing search and arrest warrants.

C. Provides sworn testimony in court proceedings.

D. Mediate and resolve inmate complaints and disputes.

E. Collect and distribute inmate mail and items such as clothing, bedding, toiletries, reading materials, etc.

F. Provide trial and courtroom procedural information and instructions to jurors, trial participants, prisoners, and other trial participants and courtroom observers.

G. Operate computer terminal to retrieve information and data from central files or outside agency files and systems.

H. Research manual and computer records to obtain information concerning policies, procedures, regulations, warrants, penal codes, arrest reports, court dockets, etc.

I. Respond to miscellaneous citizen inquiries and requests; such as giving directions, assisting with disabled vehicles, and providing clarification of routine legal requirements.

J. Attend in-service training classes.

IV. JOB REQUIREMENTS:

A. Written Comprehension

1. Ability to read and comprehend narrative hand-written materials; including pass-on logs, round sheets, caution tags, cell search logs, etc.

2. Ability to read and comprehend printed materials; such as Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s), fire procedures, and the Inmate Handbook.

3. Ability to read and comprehend computer screen information, and input information and data when preparing offense reports and booking individuals.

4. Ability to prepare hand-written activity logs, and narrative incident and offense reports in a legible and grammatically acceptable manner to permit comprehension by the receiving party.

B. Verbal Comprehension.

1. Ability to understand and exchange information with supervisors and coworkers when receiving assignments, instructions, and shift change information, and while performing assigned duties and tasks.

2. Ability to understand and exchange information with vehicle operators, complainants, victims, event witnesses, and members of the general public; including judges, attorneys, jurors, jail visitors, facility maintenance personnel, etc.

3. Ability to interact with jail inmates, and to understand and comprehend inmate responses to questions.

4. Ability to provide verbal direction to excited and agitated individuals, individuals under arrest, and jail inmates in a manner to effect compliance and conformance to directives.

C. Mathematical Capabilities.

1. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide when using formulas to calculate speed of vehicles involved in accidents.

2. Ability to add and subtract when taking prisoner counts and reconciling discrepancies.

D. Visual Capabilities.

1. Ability to read small print when referring to Key Maps to locate addresses of crimes and disturbances, and when completing and referring to Deputy’s Field Notes forms.

2. Ability to read digital display when operating radar equipment.

3. Ability to read tape measure when measuring objects and reference points at crime scenes, and skid marks and reference points at accident scenes.

4. Ability to detect potentially dangerous behaviors or activities when confronting traffic violators, criminal suspects, and participants in disturbances, and when observing the actions of an inmate or group of inmates.

5. Ability to discern and perceive shapes, objects, and other details when observing buildings and properties, and to detect movement or other suspicious circumstances and activities.

6. Ability to identify colors when performing searches for individuals based on color of clothing, searches for vehicles based on descriptive color, preparing personal descriptions requiring entry of color of eyes, preparing written description of personal property in describing color of jewelry, and observing armbands to identify classification of inmates.

7. Ability to detect smoke from cigarettes and electrical fires in jail cells, and smoke emanating from vehicles, buildings, or other structures.

8. Visual acuity must be correctable to 20/20 for both eyes.

9. Color vision must be normal.

E. Auditory Capabilities.

1. Ability to hear alarms.

2. Ability to hear and understand information received over the telephone, radio, and intercom.

3. Ability to distinguish between normal jail sounds and sounds indicating impending improper or unacceptable inmate behavior such as altercations, fights, assaults, etc.

4. Ability to distinguish and identify sounds from unseen sources indicating the presence of abnormal and possibly dangerous circumstances such as a weapon being cocked, pressurized gas escaping, footsteps, doors opening, growling dogs, etc.

5. Must have hearing that is within the normal range as defined by nationally recognized audiometric standards, or that surpasses the normal range

F. Olfactory Capabilities.

1. Ability to detect the presence of smoke from cigarettes and electrical fires on the jail premises.

2. Ability to detect the presence of alcoholic beverages or illegal drugs.

G. Physical Capabilities.

1. Ability to lift weights up to 40 pounds when lifting and positioning Scott Air Pack on back to respond to jail fires.

2. Ability to climb ladders and stairs while wearing a duty belt and protective vest weighing approximately 18 pounds when investigating possible criminal activities in buildings, and to climb stairs when moving within jail cell blocks.

3. Ability to scale six foot fences while wearing a duty belt and protective vest weighing approximately 18 pounds when pursuing suspects or suspicious individuals through neighborhood areas.

4. Ability to drag unconscious individuals for up to 50 feet when pulling injured officers out of harms way and when extracting and pulling automobile accident casualties away from burning vehicles.

5. Ability to work in a standing position for extended periods of time when observing and monitoring inmates, checking cells, escorting inmates, etc.

6. Ability to bend, stoop, and twist frequently when entering and exiting patrol vehicle.

7. Ability to bend, stoop, and kneel when investigating accidents and crime scenes, searching vehicles for contraband, and checking under tables, beds, and mattresses during jail cell searches.

8. Finger dexterity, and hand and arm steadiness when firing weapon, when operating hand held radar gun and when operating computer keyboard.

9. Eye, hand, and arm coordination when fingerprinting individuals.

10. Eye, ear, and finger coordination when firing weapon and when operating radar gun.