Criminal Justice Specialist - Sheriff's Office

Essential Functions

• Ensures the security and safety of the inmates: ensures that inmates are not injured by themselves or by other inmates; responds to alarms; and provides inmates with information regarding charges, bonding, attorneys, and personal interactions.
• Staffs and operates security control rooms, providing monitoring of both inmates and security/fire control systems; controls all movement within monitored area and ensures that inmates are safely & securely maintained.
• Maintains accurate counts of detainees; maintains complete records and ensures that current information on detainees is entered into the Records Management System.
• Performs intake and receipt of inmate property; inventories detainee property, compiles with booking, release orders and procedures.
• Coincides visitation for detainees, medical, attorneys or religious services.
• Operates Security Electronics System, intercom, radio equipment, computer terminal, telephone and Key control systems.
• Ensures the security and safety of facility staff and visitors: monitors visitor access to facilities and conducts searches for contraband materials; and escorts visitors within the facility.
• Secures facility keys, receives status and incident reports and special instructions from other personnel.
• Inspects incoming mail and packages for contraband and often non-permitted items; delivers, packages, mail and items to detainees.

Minimum Qualifications

• A High School Diploma or GED required; with two years of experience in administrative support experience preferred, demonstrated with computer literacy skills in standard software applications.
• Must possess and maintain a valid Driver's License; maintain GCIC certification.

Physical Abilities

• Tasks require the regular and sustained performance of moderately physically demanding work, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and that may involve the lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of moderately heavy objects and materials (20-50 pounds).

Sensory Requirements

• Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals.
• Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.

Environmental Factors

• Performance of essential functions of this position the employee is frequently exposed to fumes, odors, or airborne particles, excessive noise, communicable disease and confrontational persons.