Public Safety Service Officer

Shasta County Sheriff's Office Position

The current vacancy is in the Shasta County Sheriff's Office. Oral exam is tentatively scheduled for August 2026. Responses to supplemental questions required. Final filing date:
August 05, 2026, at 12:00 PM. Salary information $3,614-$4,613 approximate monthly / $20.85-$26.61 approximate hourly. This Public Safety Service Officer position, if applicable, shall receive an additional three dollars ($3.00) per hour to base wages if assigned to areas where criminally charged persons are confined. This position is in the UPEC General bargaining unit. Please refer to the applicable bargaining unit labor agreement (Memorandum of Understanding) for potential future salary increases:
Shasta County Labor Agreements. The salary range consists of six (6) salary steps, with approximately 5% intervals between each step. The original appointment for new employees begins at the first step of the assigned salary range. New employees are eligible for a merit-based step increase at six months from step A to step B and then annually thereafter from the step B pay period.

About Shasta County

Shasta County offers all the amenities of the big city while retaining a comfortable small-town atmosphere. With its natural beauty, affordable housing, excellent educational system, abundance of recreational opportunities, and excellent quality of life, Shasta County is a great place to live, work, and raise a family.

About the Department

The Sheriff's Office is organized into five divisions:
Custody, Services, Enforcement, Investigations, and Coroner. The Custody Division includes the County Jail, the Annex Work Facility, and the Court Transportation facilities. The purpose of the jail is to incarcerate offenders while providing basic medical care for county, state, out-of-county, and federal prisoners who are ineligible to be assigned to alternative custody programs. The jail is a maximum-security facility that houses both pre-sentenced and sentenced persons.

The Services Division includes the local Office of Emergency Services, Personnel and Hiring, Background Unit, Internal Affairs, and Records Unit. The Enforcement Division handles all patrol-related matters. The Enforcement Division is responsible for municipal law enforcement services within the City of Shasta Lake. The Animal Regulation Unit is also under the Enforcement Division of the Sheriff's Office. The Investigations Division includes the Major Crimes Unit, Crime Lab, Shasta Interagency Narcotics Taskforce (SINTF), Marijuana Eradication Team (MET), and the AB109 Compliance Team.

The Major Crimes Unit augments patrol and investigates property crimes, crimes against people including homicide and sexual assault, and other in-depth investigations. The other units such as SINTF, MET, and the AB 109 Compliance Team augment the Major Crimes Unit along with handling drug-related offenses, probation offenses, parole offenses, and other investigations, as assigned. The Sheriff is also the County Coroner;

therefore, the Coroner's Division is responsible for investigating sudden, violent, unusual, and unexpected deaths when the decedent has not been recently seen by a physician. The Coroner's Division is commanded by a Lieutenant who serves as the agency's Chief Deputy Coroner.

About the Position

Under general supervision, assists sworn personnel by handling non-hazardous support responsibilities in the Sheriff's Office and performs related work as required.

Distinguishing Characteristics

Public Safety Service Officer is a generalist non-sworn classification that performs a wide variety of law enforcement support tasks that do not require the exercise of peace officer powers of arrest or firearms. Public Safety Service Officers are assigned to the Sheriff's Office Custody Division (Jail or Alternative Custody Program) or the . Public Safety Service Officers are paraprofessional civilian personnel utilized to augment sworn members in the performance of their primary custody/enforcement, security, property, evidence, and investigation responsibilities.

Positions in this classification are distinguished from positions designated as "sworn safety" by the lack of direct responsibility for physical restraint of prisoners, protecting life and property, apprehending criminal violators, and other duties that must be carried out by sworn personnel.

Ideal Candidate

An ideal candidate for this position is one who is detail oriented, articulate in both their written and oral communication, displays an understanding and ability to work with technical and computer related hardware and software, has a minimum of one year prior inventory or property management experience, and has prior experience working for a law enforcement agency, or has some college units in criminal justice or related field of study.

Duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

For the Jail:
Processes inmates into detention facilities; initiates and completes…