Detention Deputy - Entry Level

Compensation Range

$36.99 - $46.86

Job Description Summary

If you are interested in law enforcement and looking for an opportunity to start from the ground up and grow a career with the Weld County Sheriff's Office, we have the beginning of an amazing career waiting for you! Our mission is to accept and lawfully hold prisoners in a safe, humane, wholesome environment that returns people to the community better, or no worse, than they arrived. The Weld County Sheriff's Office offers multiple additional assignments to include : Detective / Investigations, Drug Task Force, Canine Team (K9), SWAT Team (Special Weapons and Tactics), STRIKE Team (High Impact Task Force), FET (Field Evidence Technician / Crime Scene Investigation), FTO (Field Training Officer), Drone Pilot, Honor Guard, and Bomb Squad Courts Unit. The Weld County Sheriff's Office sponsors up to 10 employees per year to attend a P.O.S.T. (Peace Officers Standards and Training) academy. This academy certifies our employees to advance their career in law enforcement to be a deputy sheriff or police officer on the street. Start your career in law enforcement with the best at Weld County! A Detention Deputy relies heavily upon interpersonal communication skills, physical techniques and tactics, and writing skills to safely, effectively, and efficiently manage jail operations. Jail operations include performing activities necessary to maintain the health, safety, security, and welfare of jail staff and incarcerated individuals (inmates). All shift assignments are on a yearly bid basis and we maintain jail functions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Job Description

The following are the steps for the hiring process :

Step 1 : Online assessment through the National Testing Network (NTN). Be sure you select Corrections (for the Detentions position) and Law Enforcement (for the Patrol position). You have the option to take the test from your home computer or select a test site. If you have taken the NTN assessment in the past year for another agency, you may have it moved to Weld County.

Step 2 : PAT (Physical Abilities Test).

Please select a date to take the test using the link below.

The course is located outside, on the South side of the Weld Food Bank. 1104 H Street (near this location - NOT in the building) Greeley, CO 80631

Please wear workout attire.

Step 3 : Background Check

The deputy will give you a background packet at the PAT OR you may pick one up at one of two locations (HR 1150 O street OR Sheriff's Office Administration Building 1950 O st). Instructions and the hiring steps are included in the packet.

Step 4 : Polygraph - scheduled by the polygraph examiner.

Step 5 : Drug Screen scheduled by a Sheriff's Office Employee.

Step 6 : Physical fitness examination - scheduled by a Sheriff's Office Employee.

Step 7 : Psychological Exam -scheduled by the polygraph examiner.

Step 8 : Hired.

• Continuously ensures safety and security of inmates, staff, visitors, and the public; facilitates and protects the Constitutional rights of all persons, including, but not limited to; access to medical and dental care, law library, religious activities, legal representation, and due process.
• Directly, and indirectly, supervises inmate activities within housing units.
• Observe inmates and maintain alertness to detect, deter, or prevent self-destructive or criminal behaviors including, but not limited to; suicide, escape, assault, theft, escape, criminal mischief, extortion, ethnic intimidation and introduction of contraband.
• Observe inmates to detect and refer medical conditions to professional medical personnel and facilitate medical treatment; or identify crisis counseling situations and make referrals to professional counseling staff for inmate safety and security.
• Documents inmate behavior, housing unit activity, unusual conditions and / or events to maintain accurate records of inmate behavior and housing unit activity.
• Conducts regular inspections, and requests repairs or maintenance to the facility or equipment, when needed.
• Collects and properly distributes mail, inmate complaint forms, inmate supplies and laundry, meals and written in-house communication; and properly accepts documents, packages, money, and safely stores inmate property.
• Ensures verbal and written directives, policy, and ordinances, of Weld County and the Sheriff, are consistently and uniformly applied, and that actual practices reflect these applications.
• Provides basic intervention and applies conflict resolution strategies, to effectively control inmate behaviors and maintain order within the Weld County Jail.
• Consistently and effectively enforces jail rules regulating inmate conduct through verbal counseling or accurate preparation of an infraction report to document a written warning, lockdown, or disciplinary request.
• Works effectively in groups of peers and other employees; facilitates smooth transition of shifts through briefings, verbal, or written communication; provides support to Deputies assigned in housing units.
• Works rotating shifts to meet deployment needs, which vary at times.
• Conducts face and head counts, and reports results, to maintain the effective control of inmates; accurately confirms identity of inmates from booking photographs and name rosters to facilitate distribution of meals, commissary orders, and authorized inmate entry and exit from housing units.
• Conducts strip, person, cell and area searches, to maintain effective control of inmates.
• Escorts inmates from one location to another to provide for required inmate activities.
• Executes emergency response and tactical plans, to maintain safety and security within the Weld County Jail for events including, but not limited to; hostage situations, natural disasters, fire, riot, requests for assistance, and electrical power failure.
• Effectively applies physical control techniques and restraint devices according to procedure, whenever necessary, to maintain inmate control and order.
• Allows only authorized entry and exit of secure jail perimeter and areas within the jail facility, and determines lawful authority to accept or release an inmate from the jail to maintain safety, security, and order within the Weld County Jail; obtains legible photograph and classifiable ten-prints of prisoners accepted for booking to accurately identify inmates.

Required Qualifications

Tattoos : 1. Tattoos may be displayed while on duty or representing the agency unless considered controversial, disrespectful, or offensive. 2. Tattoos, scarifications, and brandings on the face, or front of the neck, are not authorized. Modest hand tattoos are allowed, at the discretion of the Sheriff or designee. Modest neck tattoos not extending onto the front of the neck, beyond the carotid arteries, are allowed at the discretion of the Sheriff or designee. Piercings : 1. Modest piercing are allowed. 2. Nostril is okay; septum, bridge, nasal Lang & rhino piercings are not allowed. 3. No more than one piercing is allowed to be displayed. Unusually large or obtrusive piercings are not allowed. Ring thickness of 18 gauge (1mm) or smaller and a ring diameter of 10mm or smaller is allowed. A stud size of 2mm or smaller is allowed. 3. Ear piercings Sworn personnel, only females are allowed to wear one pair of post style earrings, one in each lobe, while on duty.

This position is non-exempt from the minimum wage and overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. As an applicant for this position, you should be aware of Senate Bill 19-085, the Equal Pay for Equal