Correctional Officer 1 - Burruss

Requirements

• Are you willing to work any shift(s) to include nights, days, weekends and holidays?
• Work every weekend, with your regular off days during the week?
• Work all holidays (Christmas, MLK. Jr. Day, etc.) which are not on your regular off day?
• Work more than scheduled hours to include extra shifts?
• Wear a uniform to work each day?
• Follow a dress code, which includes restrictions on hair length and facial hair?
• Be fingerprinted and have your background checked through the FBI and other law enforcement agencies during pre-employment screening and at any time during employment?
• Provide a Driver's History for the past seven years at your own expense?
• Have a urine test to screen for use of illegal drugs both before and after being hired, with the understanding that any positive findings will result in adverse action?
• Have a physical examination by a physician, at your own expense, if offered employment?
• Work in areas where you are in close contact with prisoners who are sick and may have contagious diseases?
• Work in a locked area with prisoners who are guilty of violent crimes (murder, rape, etc.) and/or who may be mentally ill?
• Give first aid, including CPR, to prisoners who injured or seriously ill (HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis, etc.)?
• Work in a situation where you are cursed and/or physically threatened by prisoners?
• Maintain your professional composure if bodily fluids were thrown on you?
• Search (pat frisk) people, regardless of their sex, for things they are not allowed to have; and visually search (strip search) the body cavities of prisoners the same sex as you for prohibited items?
• Live for five (5) weeks, away from home, paid by the state, while attending training, returning home only on weekends?
• Use firearms, including shooting an escaping prisoner (possibly to death), if necessary?
• Risk your personal safety to rescue a fellow Correctional Officer or a prisoner from attack?
• Report a fellow law enforcement officer who is breaking rules and regulations?

IF YOU ANSWERED "NO" TO ANY QUESTION, YOU CANNOT BE CONSIDERED FOR A JOB AS A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER AND THE