Dispatcher

Lancaster, WI
Grant County Sheriff

Position Summary:

Grant County Sheriff’s Office is recruiting for a part-time dispatcher. This position performs a variety of duties connected with the operation of Sheriff’s Department Communications Center and the County Jail.

Essential Functions:

  • Receive and transmit orders and information to law enforcement, security, emergency, ambulance, health care, firefighting, highway maintenance and/or other organizations
  • Establish and maintain radio communications between department staff and emergency field units
  • Maintain records and prepare reports, and may receipt and record fines and bail money
  • Complete vehicle registrations and issue temporary license plates
  • Capacity to provide effective, credible testimony in a court of law
  • May assist in notifying staff to fill open shifts
  • Emergency contact for town services after hours to initiate proper notifications
  • Set up transportation for mental commitments, inmates, suspects, detainees, and other prisoner transports
  • Process complaints, reports of accidents or violations and refer to proper authorities
  • Receive state and federal civil defense calls and relay information to appropriate municipality
  • Perform daily testing of communications and other electronic monitoring equipment
  • Operate the Transaction Information Management Enforcement (T.I.M.E.) system
  • Respond to emergency situations in the law enforcement center
  • Check in jail inmate visitors, clergy, probation and parole, legal counsel and accept items dropped off for inmates
  • Perform such other duties as may be assigned

Requirements:

  • Graduation from high school or high school equivalency diploma
  • Technical training in telecommunications / radio preferred
  • Possession of an associate’s degree in police science desirable
  • Experience in law enforcement radio or telephone communications dispatching preferred
  • Ability to type 35 words per minute desirable