Patrol Deputy Entry/Lateral/Certified Sheriff’s Office
Salary: $34.30 – $42.33 per hour
Position Summary:
Enforces laws, performs traffic control functions, maintains peace and provides emergency aid services to protect the lives, property and legal rights of County residents and visitors.
Essential Functions:
• Monitor the public’s activities for compliance with federal, state, county and city laws and ordinances; cite, apprehend and/or arrest violators using a minimum amount of force (often requires making instantaneous decisions in critical or dangerous situations) and act as a deterrent to potential violators by performing routine and commercial and private security patrols in marked cars.
• Conduct investigations of traffic accidents, crimes and complaints of potentially dangerous (possibly armed) persons, gun shots, disputes or animal cases. This involves such activities as lifting fingerprints, interviewing or interrogating witnesses or suspects and photographing scene.
• Type, dictate and/or complete incident, accident and investigative reports, as well as the daily log. The position may also testify in court regarding data on those reports.
• Provide emergency medical treatment to victims of traffic or accidents or natural disasters.
• Provide traffic control during emergencies or civic functions.
Requirements:
- Must be at least 2l years of age at time of employment.
- United States citizen.
- High school graduate or equivalent. Proof of graduation (diploma or G.E.D.) must be provided with application.
- Must meet Okanogan County Sheriff’s Department minimum medical health requirements.
- Must possess a valid Washington State Driver’s License at the time of employment.
- Applicant’s traffic record will be subject to review and approval by the Civil Service Commission, the Sheriff’s Department and Insurance Carrier.
- Must not have had a conviction for any crime, the punishment for which could have been imprisonment in a federal or state prison or institution and shall not have been convicted of any offense involving moral turpitude, narcotics, drugs or alcohol.
- Must not be addicted to the excessive use of drugs or intoxicating beverages.
- Must possess an active First Aid Card and CPR Training.
- Applicant cannot have been convicted of any felonies. Background investigation, physical exam, psychological and polygraph exams conducted on successful candidates. Hiring is provisional, based on outcome of psychological evaluation.
Preferred Requirements:
• Bilingual
• Basic Law enforcement training
• Two years law enforcement experience