Deputy Sheriff

Atlanta, GA
Fulton County Sheriff

Salary: $58,457.00 – $108,731.00 Annually

Closing Date: 3/27/2025

Position Summary:

The purpose of this classification is to protect life and property, to deter criminal activity, and to enforce all local, state and federal laws, statutes and regulations, including serving legal processes of courts, providing courtroom services and jail support, preventing criminal acts, providing traffic control and issuing traffic citations, performing preliminary investigations, and responding to emergency calls. Incumbents in this class are new to the department and have completed the required training.

Essential Functions:

  • Enforces all local and state codes, ordinances, laws and regulations, both traffic and criminal, in order to protect life and property, to promote security, and to maintain law and order.
  • Serves felony and misdemeanor warrants and civil papers: arrests individuals named in warrants; conducts investigations to determine location/locate individuals named in criminal and civil papers; performs extradition of alleged criminals from other jurisdictions to satisfy open warrants; executes lunacy or juvenile pickup orders; transports prisoners to County jail, medical facilities, mental institutions, or juvenile detention center.
  • Provides courtroom security: maintains a security presence in the courtroom to ensure safety of court personnel, to identify/prevent disturbances of court proceedings, and to identify/prevent potential violence or use of weapons; assists with courtroom proceedings and documentation process as required.
  • Conducts security checks of courthouse offices, judges’ chambers, parking lots, or other areas of courthouse; performs electronic and visual security screening of jurors, spectators, or other individuals; assists detention officers with security/management of inmates in court; secures and detains new prisoners.
  • Processes incoming and outgoing inmates: takes accurate and classifiable fingerprints, photographs, and personal history; collects, inventories, and stores inmate personal clothing, jewelry, and money; documents receipt/return of personal items and money upon release.
  • Transports inmates to/from assigned locations such as courts, jails, detention center, correctional institutions, prisons, medical facilities, regional youth detention centers, or elsewhere as directed: provides safety and security during transport.
  • Enforces jail rules, regulations and procedures: maintains a secure and peaceful environment in the facility; monitors and directs inmate activities inside the facility on a continual basis; takes headcount of inmates as required; reports unusual observations to superiors; directs work of inmate trustees; conducts periodic security inspections and searches of inmates’ person and living quarters for unauthorized items including weapons, drugs, and smoking paraphernalia.
  • Escorts inmates from one area of the jail to another; receives/releases inmates transferred to/from the facility and processes all related documentation; ensures the health, safety and welfare of inmates; restrains violent/unruly arrestees and prisoners.
  • Coordinates, monitors, or performs various functions associated with ensuring the health, safety and welfare of inmates, which may include serving of meals, provision of clothing/bedding, provision of medical aid/supplies, coordination of visitation and telephone communications, or distribution of mail.
  • Mediates disputes between inmates and/or staff members; may employ weapons or force to maintain discipline and order among prisoners; counsels and/or disciplines inmates as required.
  • Patrols designated areas to detect and deter criminal activity and traffic violations; conducts surveillance and investigations into illegal activities; prevents/discovers commission of crime; apprehends, arrests, and processes criminals, fugitives and offenders; writes citations.
  • 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.
  • Monitors base and two-way radio; initiates emergency response to prisoner, employee, or facility emergencies such as operating fire suppression equipment, providing first aid, or personal endangerment.
  • Responds to questions, complaints and requests for information/assistance from the general public, news media, court and medical personnel, attorneys, inmates, officers, various agencies, employees, officials, supervisors, or other individuals.
  • Documents all activity conducted in assigned position; operates a computer to research, review, enter and/or modify information in database; conducts GCIC/NCIC checks on arrestees; enters data on and retrieves intelligence information from the computer system.
  • 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: receives and reviews various documentation, including accident reports, incident reports, case files, crime laboratory reports, citations, logs, evidence sheets, criminal history reports, DUI reports, warrants, subpoenas, summonses, court dockets, and toxicology reports, hospital records; reviews, completes, processes, forwards or retains as appropriate; prepares or completes various forms, reports, correspondence, and other documentation, including time sheets, complaint forms, logs, checklists, accident reports, incident reports, DUI reports, property/evidence sheets, criminal investigation reports, witness statements, citations, accident information sheets, diagrams, warrant applications, booking sheets, and bail/bond forms; compiles data for further processing or for use in preparation of department reports; and maintains computerized and/or hardcopy records.
  • Operates or uses various equipment and supplies in order to complete work assignments: operates and maintains a motor vehicle and a variety of law enforcement equipment, and other equipment; operates a personal computer to enter, retrieve, review or modify data, utilizing word processing, spreadsheet, database, Internet, e-mail, or other software; and operates general office or other equipment as necessary to complete essential functions.
  • Communicates with County officials, supervisor, other employees, inmates, attorneys, the public, and other individuals as needed to coordinate work activities, review status of work, exchange information, or resolve problems.

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.
  • All applicants must agree to and successfully pass a background investigation, drug screening and polygraph to be considered for employment with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.