DEPUTY SHERIFF

About the role

The Fulton County Sheriff's Office seeks individuals who are committed to protecting life and property, promoting security, and maintaining law and order. This position involves enforcing local and state codes, serving warrants, conducting courtroom security, processing inmates, transporting inmates, monitoring inmate activities, and responding to emergency calls.

Responsibilities

• Enforces all local and state codes, ordinances, laws and regulations, both traffic and criminal.
• Serves felony and misdemeanor warrants and civil papers.
• Provides courtroom security.
• Conducts security checks of courthouse offices, judges' chambers, parking lots, or other areas of courthouse.
• Processes incoming and outgoing inmates.
• Transports inmates to/from assigned locations.
• Enforces jail rules, regulations and procedures.
• Coordinates, monitors, or performs various functions associated with ensuring the health, safety and welfare of inmates.
• Responds to calls relayed by dispatchers, including alarms, domestic disputes, assaults, burglaries, traffic accidents, lost or missing persons searches, rescue operations, public service duties, welfare checks, stranded motorists, or other calls for assistance.
• Conducts preliminary investigations; interviews victims, complainants and witnesses and takes statements; gathers information and evidence; seizes contraband and weapons; preserves evidence until the case is disposed of in a court of law; preserves and secures crime scenes; takes photographs and prepares crime scene sketches.
• Enforces traffic laws; uses radar/laser speed detection units to enforce speed laws; initiates contact with individuals driving motor vehicles to determine involvement in criminal activity.
• Inspects motor vehicles and premises of residential/commercial buildings/properties to detect suspicious conditions and/or to locate illegal contraband; impounds vehicles as necessary.
• Provides first aid to victims of violent acts, industrial accidents, motor traffic accidents, and other mishaps.
• Attends hearings and provides testimony in judicial proceedings as required.
• Maintains a comprehensive, current knowledge of applicable policies, procedures, regulations, codes, and criminal/civil case law; maintains an awareness of new trends and advances in the profession; reads professional literature; maintains professional affiliations; attends shift meetings and in-service training as required to remain knowledgeable of departmental operations, to promote improved job performance, and to stay current with changing state/municipal policies, procedures, codes and civil/criminal laws.
• Processes a variety of documentation associated with department/division operations, within designated timeframes and per established procedures.
• Operates or uses various equipment and supplies in order to complete work assignments.

Requirements

• High school diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED).
• Must be 21 years of age.
• Must obtain and maintain Peace Officer Standards and Training certification.
• Must possess and maintain a valid Georgia driver's license within 30 days of becoming a resident.
• Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in performance of the essential functions and learn, comprehend, and apply all county or departmental policies, practices, and procedures necessary to function effectively in the position.

Qualifications

• Must be a citizen of the United States.
• Must not have been convicted by any state or the federal government of any crime, the punishment for which could have been imprisonment in a federal or state prison or institution.
• Must not have been convicted of sufficient misdemeanors to establish a pattern of disregard for the law, provided that, for the purposes of this paragraph, violations of traffic laws and other offenses involving the operation of a motor vehicle when the applicant has received a pardon shall not be considered.
• Must be fingerprinted and a search made of local, state, and national fingerprint files to disclose any criminal record.
• Must be of good moral character as determined by established standards and procedures.
• Must be found, after examination by a licensed physician of the Fulton County Health and Wellness Department, to be free from any physical, emotional, or mental conditions which might adversely affect exercising the powers or duties of a peace officer.
• Must successfully complete a job related academy entrance examination provided for and administered by the council in conformity with state and federal law.

Skills

• Proficiency in performance of the essential functions.
• Ability to learn, comprehend, and apply all county or departmental policies, practices, and procedures.

Benefits

Details about benefits will be provided in a separate document upon request.

Pay

Details about pay will be provided in a separate document upon request.

Schedule

Details about schedule will be provided in a separate document upon request.