Experienced Deputy Sheriff – Patrol (Lateral Program)
Salary: $82,472.00 – $110,510.40 Annually
Position Summary:
The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office is seeking experienced P.O.S.T. Certified Officers to join our team! We are hiring certified officers with one to three years or more (1-3+ years) of patrol experience. This is a lateral selection process with the possibility of starting at Step 3 of our compensation plan.
Be part of our mission to protect and preserve life, liberty and property by providing superior public safety services in Larimer County. Located in beautiful northern Colorado, we are responsible for 2,640 square miles of urban and rural mountainous areas. We are committed to working with our community to develop and maintain a safe atmosphere in which we can live, work, play, and raise our families.
Essential Functions:
- Effectively communicate to provide information, direction, mediations, and de-escalate situations and resolve conflicts.
- Determine when there is reasonable suspicion to detain when probable cause exists to search and arrest, and when appropriate force may be used and to what degree.
- Subdue resisting suspects using approved techniques of arrest control, defensive tactics, and weapons; resort to the use of hands, feet and other approved weapons in defense of self or others.
- Purse fleeing suspects.
- Testify and attend court and speak in other formal settings as necessary.
- Read, comprehend, prepare, and process legal and non-legal documents.
Requirements:
- High school diploma or GED required
- Must be at least 21 years of age by date of hire required
- Colorado P.O.S.T. Certification required
- First aid and community CPR certificates required within 12 weeks from date of hire
- Possession of a valid Driver’s License required