Captain

Full Job Description

• Provides leadership to and direct supervision of Lieutenants in assigned location of the Sheriff's Operation.
  
  
• Responsible for evaluating staff performance to ensure accountability and efficiency of work performed.
  
  
• Understands the mission and philosophy of the Sheriff's Department and leads their staff utilizing these fundamental principles.
  
  
• Effectively manages staff and develops them through coaching and mentoring.
  
  
• Due to nature of a 24/7 operation, may be required to work variable days and/or shifts.
  
  
• Initiate, develop and implement, independently or under general direction programs and activities of the assigned operation or Correctional Facility.
  
  
• Assist the Undersheriff in short term and long term planning of the department.
  
  
• Assist in the development and administration of the budget, grants, contract and special funding.
  
  
• Administer financial operations of the department.
  
  
• Develop recommendations and implement activities designed to accomplish goals and ensures compliance with State, departmental and institutional procedures and regulations.
  
  
• Ensure compliance with departmental, institutional, County, State and Federal procedures, regulations, resolutions and laws.
  
  
• Assists in the department selection of staff and ensure training requirements are met; schedules staff and makes assignments.
  
  
• Plans, assigns, schedules, supervise and evaluates the activities of assigned personnel; increase awareness of risk aversion and risk analysis through mandatory training and implementation.
  
  
• Coordinate the work of the assigned division or facility and with other divisions of the department.
  
  
• Ensure safety procedures of the operation and facility and personnel are met and that violations are corrected.
  
  
• Provides direction to subordinates and remedies potential problems, takes necessary action when alerted of emergency and potentially dangerous situations.
  
  
• Develops and ensures good public relations.
  
  
• Prepares a variety of oral and written reports.
  
  
• Keeps Undersheriff fully informed of operations and potential problems.
  
  
• Assists in the planning and implementation of overall departmental policies.
  
  
• Assists in determining the future needs of the department in terms of personnel and equipment.
  
  
• Evaluates complaints from the public and from their own staff, reports and makes recommendations to the Undersheriff.
  
  
• Researches, evaluates, proposes and makes written recommendations to the Undersheriff on future changes within their assigned divisions.
  
  
• Coordinate the activities of the division with other agencies and other city, county, and State or Federal offices.

• Supervise and conduct investigations; interview and interrogate suspects; occasionally go on patrol.
  
  
• Supervise and participate in collecting, recording and holding evidence.
  
  
• Responsibility for the care and maintenance of departmental equipment and inventory.
  
  
• Ensures proper preparation of material for court; oversees all administrative functions of assigned division.

• Inspects facility for proper operation, deterioration of equipment and security of the institution and takes measures to have problems reported and corrected.
  
  
• Helps resolve inmate problems, coordinates programs with other agencies.
  
  
• Ensures facility remains in compliance with all County, State and Federal resolutions and laws.
  
  
• Follow the Bureau of Corrections standards, Penal Code and all other applicable Federal and State law.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Effectively direct, plan and organize a division or facility of the Sheriff's Department.
  
  
• Effectively follow the Penal Code and all other laws, directives, mandates and ordinates that apply to law enforcement.
  
  
• Direct administrative operations of the Sheriff Department under the direction of the Undersheriff when specifically assigned.
  
  
• Communicate effectively with others in person and over the telephone.
  
  
• Analyze data, interpret policies, procedures and regulations; develop appropriate conclusions and prepare reports as necessary.
  
  
• Meet deadlines under stressful conditions; complete multiple projects with conflicting deadlines.
  
  
• Resolve conflicts and respond appropriately to complaints.
  
  
• Maintain confidential information in accordance with legal standards and County regulations.
  
  
• Represent the County with the community and other agencies; conduct presentations.
  
  
• Train, evaluate, and supervise staff.
  
  
• Operate a personal computer and other office equipment.
  
  
• Establish, implement and achieve departmental goals and objectives.
  
  
• Frequent use of depth perception, peripheral vision and color perception.
  
  
• Frequently lift, carry, reach, push, pull, twist and manipulate large and small objects.
  
  
• Kneel, bend, twist, squat, balance and crawl; occasionally lift and carry up to 40 pounds.
  
  
• Frequent use of hand-eye coordination; normal dexterity, frequent holding and grasping.
  
  
• Frequent repetitive hand and arm motion.
  
  
• Regular attendance is an essential function.

• Principles of public administration: organization, supervision, budget and personnel management. Principles of State and Federal organizations is desirable.
  
  
• Principles of police science, administration and organization.
  
  
• Criminal law with particular emphasis on the apprehension, arrest, and prosecution of law violators.
  
  
• Specialized areas of the code of civil procedure and types and legal requirements for civil processes, methods of investigation, detection, apprehension, and crime prevention.
  
  
• Principles of supervision; proper and effective methods of deploying law enforcement personnel.
  
  
• Emergency, safety and health practices, procedures and standards.
  
  
• Principles and standards, codes and rules of the State Bureau of Corrections, administration and organization governing correctional institutions; correct standards of custody and care of prisoners.

• Analyze and interpret police problems, crime statistics and reports.
  
  
• Plan, organize, direct, and evaluate the work of others.
  
  
• Coordinate the work of large functional units.
  
  
• Advise on the improvement of procedures and regulations and evaluate their effects.
  
  
• Speak effectively before large groups.
  
  
• Write and review reports, operational manuals and guides.
  
  
• Establish and maintain cooperative relationships with those contacted during the course of work.
  
  
• Supervise and instruct subordinates.