Criminal Deputy - Lateral; Sheriff

Jackson County Employment Opportunity

Jackson County strives to recruit, hire and retain the best employees!

Serves as a sworn police officer to patrol highways and waterways of county, enforce laws, investigate crimes.

• Are currently police officer certified through the Oregon Department of Public Safety, Standards and Training (DPSST). You must attach your Oregon DPSST Police Officer Certification to your application to meet this standard. Applicants under this standard would mean your probationary period with JCSO would be 12 months after hire.
• Have a lapsed Police Officer Certification, provided they are eligible for reinstatement per Oregon DPSST standards. You must attach a copy of your training snapshot in order to meet this standard. Applicants under this standard would mean your probationary period with JCSO would be 12 months after hire.
• Have completed probationary period with your current agency.
• Applicants must possess a high degree of integrity and sound judgment.
• Submit transcripts, if using college education to meet educational minimum requirements.
• Pass a credit and criminal background check prior to hire.
• Submit an acceptable DMV certified court print prior to hire.
• Pass a pre-employment drug screen, which includes screening for Marijuana, and/or a psychological exam, prior to hire.
• Applicants with lapsed certifications from DPSST will be required to pass a Code 3 physical prior to hire.
• This position is represented by union group JCSEA.

(The following duties represent some of the principal job duties; however, they are not all-inclusive. Other duties may be required or assigned.)

• Enforces criminal, traffic, marine, game, park laws in accordance with state law and county ordinances.
• Responds to calls for service in accordance with department policies, assesses and controls situations, secures the scene, determines what additional resources are needed, and reestablishes normal functions.
• Arrests individuals, forcibly if necessary, using handcuffs and other restraints. Subdues resisting suspects using maneuvers, chemical agents and weapons and resorts to the use of hands and feet and other approved weapons in self-defense.
• Operates law enforcement vehicles during both the day and night; in emergency situations involving speeds in excess of posted limits, in congested traffic and in unsafe road conditions caused by factors such as fog, smoke, rain, ice, and snow.
• Provides traffic enforcement and control, motorist assistance, crowd control, and assistance to disabled persons. Conducts welfare checks, makes death notifications, and serves and enforces court orders and civil processes.
• 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.
• 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.
• Engages in law enforcement patrol functions that include such things as working rotating shifts, walking on foot patrol and physically checking doors and windows to ensure they are secure. Provides visible patrol presence allowing for public access and for crime detection and deterrence.
• 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; climbing through openings; jumping over obstacles, ditches and streams; crawling in confined areas; balancing on uneven surfaces and using body force to gain entrance through barriers.
• Performs rescue functions at accidents, emergencies and disasters to include directing traffic and standing for long periods of time, administering emergency medical aid, lifting, dragging and carrying people away from dangerous situations and securing and evacuating people from unsafe areas. May encounter situations that involve hazardous materials, body fluids, communicable diseases, seriously injured persons with traumatic injuries and/or deceased persons.
• Loads, unloads, aims and fires handguns, rifles and other agency firearms from a variety of body positions and under conditions of stress that justify the use of deadly force and at levels of proficiency prescribed in department standards.
• Gathers information in criminal investigations by interviewing and obtaining the statements of victims, witnesses, suspects, and confidential informers. Prepares investigative and other reports, including sketches and photographs, using appropriate grammar, symbols and mathematical computations and distributes according to policy.
• Detects, collects and processes evidence and substances that provide the basis of criminal offenses and infractions and that indicate the presence of dangerous…