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Processes and releases inmates
to include taking their
photographs and obtaining a
legible set of inked fingerprint
impressions. Verifies inmate
identification; completes
required questioning, including
medical data. Issues and
collects facility property
(clothing, bedding, commissary).
Provides laundry exchange.
Seizes and re-issues inmate
personal clothing and property
during intake and release.
Supervises all inmates in an
unbiased manner regardless of
offense. Responds to major and
minor disturbances, restores
order and maintains inmate
discipline. Restrains inmates,
forcibly if necessary, using
handcuffs and other restraints.
Subdues resisting inmates 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 inmates including body
cavities, with potential
encounters with body fluids,
wastes, and communicable
diseases. Supervises infectious
prisoners. May encounter
suicidal or deceased inmates.
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 inmate
movement and supervises inmate
program activities. Safely uses
handcuffs and other appropriate
restraints while transporting
and escorting inmates outside of
the facility.
Conducts inmate count, 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
inmates; performs rescue
operations to include
administering basic emergency
medical aid and evacuating
inmates 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 inmates.
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 computations.
Gathers information in
administrative investigations by
obtaining statements of involved
parties, preparing reports,
exercising independent judgment
and determining or recommending
disciplinary action.
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 inmate rules.
Records court decisions onto
standard department forms.
Communicates effectively and
coherently with other officers
and inmates using existing
communication systems. Uses
communication skills to avoid
physical confrontation.
Effectively communicates with
the public, including minors,
providing procedural/activity
information, giving information
and directions, mediating
disputes and advising of rights
and processes.
Demonstrates communication
skills in court, grand jury and
other formal settings.
Performs crisis intervention
functions to include counseling,
suicide prevention, recognizing
abnormal behavior and taking
appropriate action.
Ensures inmate due process and
access to the legal system.
Ensures health standards,
cleanliness of facility and
inmates.
Manipulate keys and keyboards,
operates levers and buttons,
manually operates heavy doors
and counts, collects and
inventories small items.
Maintains, controls, and
inventories facility keys,
materials, and equipment. Uses
and maintains department issued
equipment as needed. |
