Detention Deputy - Entry Level

Compensation Range

$37.73 - $52.75

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If you are interested in Law Enforcement and looking for an opportunity to start from the ground up and grow a career with Weld County Sheriff’s Office, we have the beginning of an amazing career waiting for you!

Our Mission
The Weld County Jail will accept and lawfully hold prisoners in a safe, humane, wholesome environment that returns people to the community better, or no worse, than they arrived.

The Weld County Sheriff’s Office offers multiple additional assignments to include:

Detective/Investigations
Drug Task Force
Canine Team (K9)
SWAT Team (Special Weapons and Tactics)
STRIKE Team (High Impact Task Force)
FET (Field Evidence Technician/Crime Scene Investigation)
FTO (Field Training Officer)
Drone Pilot
Honor Guard
Bomb Squad
Courts Unit

The Weld County Sheriff’s Office sponsors up to 10 employees per year to attend a P.O.S.T. (Peace Officers Standards and Training) academy. This academy certifies our employees to advance their career in law enforcement to be a deputy sheriff or police officer on the street. Start your career in law enforcement with the best at Weld County!

A Detention Deputy relies heavily upon interpersonal communication skills, physical techniques and tactics, and writing skills to safely, effectively, and efficiently manage jail operations. Jail operations include performing activities necessary to maintain the health, safety, security, and welfare of jail staff and incarcerated individuals (inmates). All shift assignments are on a yearly bid basis and we maintain jail functions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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• Continuously ensures safety and security of inmates, staff, visitors, and the public; facilitates and protects the Constitutional rights of all persons, including, but not limited to; access to medical and dental care, law library, religious activities, legal representation, and due process.

• Directly, and indirectly, supervises inmate activities within housing units.

• Observe inmates and maintain alertness to detect, deter, or prevent self-destructive or criminal behaviors including, but not limited to; suicide, escape, assault, theft, escape, criminal mischief, extortion, ethnic intimidation and introduction of contraband.

• Observe inmates to detect and refer medical conditions to professional medical personnel and facilitate medical treatment; or identify crisis counseling situations and make referrals to professional counseling staff for inmate safety and security.

• Documents inmate behavior, housing unit activity, unusual conditions and/or events to maintain accurate records of inmate behavior and housing unit activity.

• Conducts regular inspections, and requests repairs or maintenance to the facility or equipment, when needed.

• Collects and properly distributes mail, inmate complaint forms, inmate supplies and laundry, meals and written in-house communication; and properly accepts documents, packages, money, and safely stores inmate property.

• Ensures verbal and written directives, policy, and ordinances, of Weld County and the Sheriff, are consistently and uniformly applied, and that actual practices reflect these applications.

• Provides basic intervention and applies conflict resolution strategies, to effectively control inmate behaviors and maintain order within the Weld County Jail.

• Consistently and effectively enforces jail rules regulating inmate conduct through verbal counseling or accurate preparation of an infraction report to document a written warning, lockdown, or disciplinary request.

• Works effectively in groups of peers and other employees; facilitates smooth transition of shifts through briefings, verbal, or written communication; provides support to Deputies assigned in housing units.

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