Deputy Sheriff (Certified)
Open until filled
Position Summary:
This is general law enforcement work responsible for protecting life and property within Meriwether County; enforcing traffic regulation, state laws and county ordinances; responding to emergency situations, citizens requests for assistance, and alarms; and conducting investigations in response to reported or discovered criminal activity. Work requires independent judgement discretion in difficult or unusual situations. Work involves personal danger.
Essential Functions:
- Patrols the County to provide a visible deterrent in uniform and in marked cars and to enforce laws and ordinances and protect life and property; monitors commercial and residential areas for signs of criminal activity; patrols for suspicious persons and vehicles.
- Responds to calls for assistance, disturbance calls, and complaints of crimes; enforces federal, state, and local laws by performing warrant, felony or misdemeanor arrests; protects the civil rights of persons in custody; uses non-deadly and deadly force to protect oneself, other officers, and citizens.
- Secures and protects crime scenes by establishing boundaries, detaining victims, suspects, and witnesses, locating and identifying evidence, and briefing supervisors and investigators on their arrival.
- Conducts investigations and interviews to establish probable cause and reasonable suspicion; collects information and determines follow-up actions; presents evidence and testimony in courts of law; assists in prosecuting felony and misdemeanor cases.
- Serves as first-responder to provide aid and assistance to victims of traffic and other accidents; assists fire and emergency medical services in treating and transporting victims.
- Conducts searches and seizures in a wide variety of contexts, including frisks incident to an arrest, pursuant to warrant, plain view seizures, emergency conditions and inventories.
- Performs persons, business, and residential security checks; checks and ensures building/home is secured and reports unsecured buildings.
- Enforces traffic and parking laws through the issuance of citations and warnings; routinely inspects roadways, bridges, traffic signals, and signs to find and report any hazardous conditions.
- Assists stranded motorists, crowd control, traffic direction hazardous material emergency assistance; escorts special processions; responds to natural or man-made disasters; and transports prisoners to jail facility.
- Prepares and maintains a wide variety of departmental records and reports in compliance with departmental and legal policies and procedures; prepares and files thorough written incident reports.
- Operates and maintains any assigned uniform, vehicle, and equipment in accordance with departmental policies and procedures.
- Gives advise and general information to the public; renders advice on domestic disturbances; assists citizens in need.
Requirements:
- Valid Georgia driver’s license and satisfactory Motor Vehicle Record.
- Completion of yearly twenty (20) hours of POST approved training to include one (1) hour of deadly force training and one (1) hour of firearms training.
- Must be a Certified Peace Officer in good standing with Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council.
- Twenty-one years of age.
- Citizen of the United States, or qualified to work in the United States. No felony convictions.