Part-Time Patrol Deputy

About The Transylvania County Sheriff Department

This role performs protective service work enforcing laws, patrolling assigned areas, investigating criminal activity, serving civil papers, ensuring safety of the public, testifying in court, maintaining records and files, preparing reports, and related work as apparent or assigned.

Essential Functions

• Operates a patrol car to observe for violations of laws, suspicious activities or persons and disturbances of law and order;
• Examines premises of unoccupied residences or buildings;
• Detects unusual conditions;
• Maintains surveillance and observation for stolen cars, missing persons or suspects;
• Responds to calls for assistance, complaints, suspicious activity, domestic disputes, loud and disruptive behavior;
• Completes calls by determining true nature of the situation and taking whatever legal or persuasive action is warranted;
• Serves warrants, summons, subpoenas, court orders, and makes arrests;
• Prepares reports;
• Testifies in court;
• Conducts business checks and extra security checks;
• Performs investigations of crimes;
• Interviews victims and witnesses, secures property and evidence, and documents facts and incidents, searches homes and personal property;
• Enforces traffic and criminal laws;
• Issues citations for violations;
• Directs traffic for special events;
• Transports prisoners and mental patients to facilities throughout the State;
• Ensures service and arranges transportation for Involuntary Commitments.

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Knowledge of law enforcement methods, practices and procedures;
• Knowledge of the geography of the County and location of important buildings;
• Knowledge of the rules and regulations of the Sheriff's Office;
• Skill in the use of firearms and the operation of motor vehicles;
• Skill in physical agility and endurance;
• Ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions and to prepare clear comprehensive reports;
• Ability to deal courteously but firmly with the public;
• Ability to analyze situations and to adopt quick, effective and reasonable courses of action;
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates and the general public.

Physical Demands

• Regular exertion of up to 10 pounds of force, frequent exertion of up to 50 pounds of force and occasional exertion of over 100 pounds of force;
• Work regularly requires speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or feel and reaching with hands and arms, frequently requires standing, walking, sitting and tasting or smelling and occasionally requires climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, pushing or pulling, lifting and repetitive motions;
• Work requires close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception, color perception, night vision and peripheral vision;
• Vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly;
• Hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound;
• Work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, using measuring devices, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities.

Work Environment

• Work frequently requires working near moving mechanical parts and exposure to outdoor weather conditions and occasionally requires wet, humid conditions (non-weather), working in high, precarious places, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to the risk of electrical shock, working with explosives, exposure to vibration, wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus and exposure to blood borne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment;
• Work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic).

Payroll & Banking Benefits

• Electronic Payroll Deposit: County employees are paid on a bi-weekly basis, totaling 26 pay periods each year. Paychecks are distributed through secure ACH direct deposit, available to all banks and credit unions. Deposits are scheduled so that funds are accessible by Friday morning on each payday. Employees have the option to split their paycheck between two accounts—one with a specified dollar amount and the other receiving the remaining balance.
• Credit Union: County Employees may be a member of the Civic Federal Credit Union. Local office is in Asheville. Learn more by visiting www.civicfcu.com.
• First Citizens Bank: First Citizens offers special bank packages for County Employees: checking with interest, no minimum balance on savings account, $500 towards closing costs on a First Citizens mortgage, and low introductory APR on balance transfers for various rewards. Learn more by visiting our local office in Brevard, located directly across the street from the County Administration Building.

Retirement

• 401K – Empower Retirement – Voluntary Employee Contributions, rollovers from prior plans, etc.
• 457 – Nationwide Retirement Solutions – Voluntary Employee Contributions, rollovers from prior plans, etc.

Local Discounts

• Advance Auto Parts – 10% off Auto Zone Auto Parts – 10% off Brevard Clay – 10% off all Paint Your Own Pottery!
• The Brevard Clothing Company – 20% off all items
• The Clothing Connection – 20% off all items
• Cardinal Cleaners – 15% off all items
• Headwaters Outfitters – 15% off full retail price items (some exclusion apply), group rates for trips down the French Broad River.
• Healthy Harvest Natural Foods – 10% off on dietary supplements only (vitamins, minerals, and herbal)
• Jiffy Lube – 15% off up to $15.00 on everything except tire purchase, Brevard location only
• La Petite Spa & Wellness – 10% off any services that are offered.
• Lilly T’s Clothing Company– 20% off all items to County Employees
• Main Street Ltd– 15% off entire purchase
• Pescados's Burritos – 15% off
• Rae & Ivy– 10% off entire purchase
• Subway – 10% off at both Brevard locations
• Tan 360 – 10% off entire purchase
• Workout Anytime - $1 enrollment, $15 month Basic or $25 month Premium