About This Role
This role involves performing security work and ensuring the care and welfare of inmates, managing the daily operations of the jail, and maintaining the building and grounds. It suits an individual who can handle routine difficulties and ensure the safety and security of a correctional facility.
Responsibilities
- Perform daily jail operations functions, including inmate intake, logging property, searching and booking inmates into the computer system, checking for warrants, taking fingerprints and photos, and dressing out inmates if necessary
- Issue bedding and hygiene products and place inmates into vacant cells
- Control the movement and activities of inmates
- Process inmate release/bond, make calls, prepare bond paperwork, return inmate property, and release from computer
- Serve inmates meals and distribute medications if necessary
- Issue new clothing on a pre-determined schedule and pick up soiled clothing for laundry
- Attend to other inmates' needs such as distributing toilet paper, movies, pencils, paper, envelopes, and commissary items
- Review booking paperwork to ensure accuracy and completion
- Review fingerprint cards for accuracy
- Maintain records and prepare reports
- Review bills for accuracy, including reconciling meal tickets to records to ensure proper charges
- Maintain safety and physical security of the facility
- Perform building maintenance, including cleaning windows, sweeping, mopping, cleaning restrooms, removing trash, restocking paper items, vacuuming offices, rugs, and the courtroom, and painting when needed
- Conduct inventories of supplies and commodities and notify supervisor of items that need to be ordered
- Inventory items at the commissary
- Replenish supplies by shopping locally or submitting an order request for supplies
- Support the relationship between the City of Belton and the constituent population by providing excellent customer service
- Promote the City goals and priorities in compliance with all policies and procedures
- Maintain absolute confidentiality of work-related issues, client records, and City information
- Perform related duties as required or assigned
- Ensure that job duties are completed in strict adherence to established safe work practices
Requirements
- Knowledge of standard housekeeping practices
- Knowledge of search, transportation, and restraint procedures
- Knowledge of suicide prevention and handling of suicidal inmates
- Knowledge of report preparation and record keeping
- Knowledge of state and federal laws, rules, and regulations governing correctional institutions and federal inmate guidelines
- Knowledge of the structure, organization, and inter-relationships of city departments, agencies, and related governmental agencies and offices
- Knowledge of effective communication principles and practices
- Knowledge of modern office procedures, methods, and equipment including computers, computer applications such as word processing, spreadsheets, and statistical databases
- Knowledge of English usage, spelling, grammar, and punctuation
- Ability to communicate clearly, concisely, and relay details accurately
- Ability to determine priorities
- Ability to analyze situations, detecting problems and facts
- Ability to respond to emergencies or stressful situations calmly, quickly, and decisively
- Ability to impartially handle individuals of various socioeconomic, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and communicate with tact and diplomacy
- High School Diploma/GED and one year of work experience in a police or correctional adult detention/correctional facility, military, or security guard position; OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience preferred
- Possession of valid Driver’s License
- Some other licenses and certifications may be required within six months of hire such as Live Scan, Taser, CPR, and ALERT Computer system
Important Details
- Physical requirements: Work is performed in a standard office/dispatch environment; may occasionally be required to lift or carry items weighing up to 40 pounds
- Exposure: May regularly be exposed to potential physical harm, hazardous chemicals, and infectious disease when dealing with inmates and working in the jail facility
About the Company
The City of Belton Police Department is responsible for law enforcement and correctional services.
