Corrections Deputy-Lateral; Sheriff

I. Position Summary

Serves as a sworn Corrections Officer, under general supervision, in County correction facilities with arrest powers identical to peace officers.

Examples of essential duties represent some of the principal job duties; however, they are not all-inclusive. Other duties may be required or assigned.

• Processes and releases inmates to include taking their photographs and obtaining a legible set of fingerprint impressions. Verifies identification of adults in custody (AIC); obtains required personal information, including medical data. Issues and collects facility property (clothing, bedding, commissary). Provides laundry exchange. Seizes and reissues AIC’s personal clothing and property during intake and release.
• Supervises all AIC in an unbiased manner regardless of offense. Responds to major and minor disturbances, restores order and maintains discipline among AIC. Restrains AIC, forcibly if necessary, using handcuffs and other restraints. Subdues resisting AIC using maneuvers, aerosol spray restraint, and resorts to the use of hands and feet and other approved devices in self‑defense. Exercises independent judgment in determining when force may be used and to what degree.
  
  Uses firearms to defend department personnel or others from the threatened use of deadly physical force.
• Searches people, clothing, mail items, objects capable of concealing contraband, buildings and large outdoor areas which may involve feeling and detecting objects, walking for long periods of time and detaining people. Inspects unclothed AIC including body cavities, with potential encounters with body fluids, wastes, and communicable diseases. Supervises infectious AIC. May encounter suicidal or deceased AIC.
• Detects and collects evidence and substances that provide the basis of criminal offenses or administrative violations. Confiscates illegal property. Detects the presence of conditions such as smoke, unusual or excessive noise, odors, etc.
• Controls access to and from facilities, supervises AIC movement and supervises AIC program activities. Safely uses handcuffs and other appropriate restraints while transporting and escorting AIC outside of the facility.
• Conducts count of AIC, with personal inspection at least once each hour. Conducts security/welfare checks. Records facility activity schedule on facility logs. Conducts pre‑housing search of cells according to policy.
• Lifts, carries, or drags heavy objects; climbs up to and down from elevated surfaces; crawls in confined areas; uses body force to gain entrance to secured areas; pursues fleeing AIC; performs rescue operations to include administering basic emergency medical aid and evacuating AIC from confined areas.
• Conducts visual and audio surveillance for extended periods of time; operates and monitors surveillance equipment; operates and monitors electronic security equipment. Reads computer and camera screens, court and other legal and non‑legal documents, distinguishes colors, and exercises full field of vision while supervising AIC.
• Engages in functions in confined areas that include such things as serving food by means of pushing a 200 lb. wheeled food cart, working rotating shifts, and physically checking the doors, windows and other areas to ensure they are secure.
• Extinguishes small fires by using a fire extinguisher and other appropriate means. Conducts emergency drills. Responds to facility mechanical failures, rectifies the situation and/or reports incident to higher authority.
• Gathers criminal information, prepares investigative reports, including sketches, using appropriate grammar, symbols and mathematical calculations. Gathers information in administrative investigations by obtaining statements of involved parties, preparing reports, exercising independent judgment and determining or recommending disciplinary action for AIC.
• Reads, comprehends, and complies with or enforces legal and non‑legal documents, including the processing of such documents as medical instructions, commitment orders, summons, other legal writs, department policies and procedures, labor agreements, and rules for AIC.
• Communicates…