Volunteer Reserve Deputy

Overview

One Agency, One Mission:
Public Safety

The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office is seeking talented men and women to join our team as Volunteer Reserve Patrol Deputies. Headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado, the Sheriff's Office is an agency of over 500 family-oriented employees, dealing with a range of responsibilities including support services, patrol, jail, wildland fire, search and rescue, and investigation duties. If you have the desire to serve your community and want to work alongside others with the same mindset, the Larimer County Sheriff's Office is a great place to call home.

Reserve Deputies provide law-enforcement support under the direct supervision of a Sheriff’s Office employee. A Colorado POST Reserve Academy and on-the-job field training are provided by the Sheriff’s Office for qualified candidates.

• Participating in patrol assignments
• Providing security and traffic control for special events
• Emergency call-out
• Assisting in agency internal training
• Providing assistance to departments throughout the agency
• Effect arrests, forcibly if necessary, using handcuffs and other restraints; subdue resisting suspects using maneuvers and weapons; and resorts to the use of hands and feet and other approved weapons in self-defense.
• Prepares investigative and other reports, sketches, and drawings, using appropriate grammar, symbols, and mathematical computations.
• Exercises independent judgment in determining when there is reasonable suspicion to detain when probable cause exists to search and arrest, and when force may be used and to what degree.
• Operates a law enforcement vehicle during both the day and night, in emergency situations involving speeds more than posted limits, in congested traffic, and in unsafe road conditions caused by factors such as fog, smoke, rain, ice, and snow. Spends long periods in and frequently enters and exits a law enforcement vehicle, which requires sitting, bending, and stretching.
• Communicates effectively and coherently over law enforcement radio channels while initiating and responding to radio communications.
• Gathers information in criminal investigations by interviewing and obtaining the statements of victims, witnesses, suspects, and confidential informers.
• Pursues fleeing suspects and performs rescue operations which may involve quickly entering and exiting law enforcement patrol vehicles; lifting, carrying, and dragging heavy objects; climbing over and pulling up oneself over obstacles; jumping down from elevated surfaces; climbing through openings; jumping over obstacles, ditches, and streams; crawling in confined areas; balancing on uneven or narrow surfaces; and using body force to gain entrance through barriers.
• From a variety of body positions, loads unload, aims, and fires handguns, shotguns, rifles, and other agency firearms under conditions of stress that justify the use of deadly force and at levels of proficiency prescribed in certification standards.
• Performs searches of people, vehicles, buildings, and large outdoor areas which may involve feeling and detecting objects, walking for long periods of time, detaining people, and stopping suspicious vehicles and persons.
• Conducts visual and audio surveillance for extended periods of time.
• Engages in law enforcement patrol functions that include such things as working rotating shifts, walking on foot patrol, and physically checking the doors and windows of buildings to ensure they are secure.
• Effectively communicates with people by giving information and directions, mediating disputes, and advising of rights and processes.
• Demonstrates communication skills in court and other formal settings.
• Detects and collects evidence and substances that provide the basis for criminal offenses and infractions and that indicate the presence of dangerous conditions.
• Endures verbal and mental abuse when confronted with the hostile views and opinions of suspects and other people encountered in antagonistic environments.
• Performs rescue functions in accidents, emergencies, and disasters including directing traffic for long periods of time; administering emergency medical aid; lifting, dragging, and carrying…