Salary: $22.06 Hourly

Position Summary:
The Vigo County Area Planning Department is entrusted with promoting the public health, safety, comfort, morals, convenience and general welfare of the community; guiding the future development of the City of Terre Haute, the Town of Riley, the Town of Seelyville, the Town of West Terre Haute, and the remaining areas of Vigo County; securing adequate light, air, convenience of access, and safety from fire, flood, and other damage; lessening or avoiding congestion in public ways; ensuring that the needs of agriculture, industry, and business be recognized in future growth; ensuring that residential areas provide healthful surroundings for family life; and ensuring that growth be commensurate with and promotive of efficient and economical use of public funds.
Essential Functions:

Enforces local, state, and federal laws by implementing effective policy to protect the lives and property of the people.
Maintains interior and exterior security of Jail, including monitoring surveillance cameras, operating electronic and digital door controls, monitoring detainee activities, and conducting watch tours/patrols. Maintains accurate accounting of all detainees, conducting periodic cell checks, shakedowns, roll calls, and head counts of detainees in assigned areas.
Performs booking procedures of individuals being detained, including photographing, fingerprinting, entering required information in computer, completing required forms and intake reports, receiving and receipting money and personal property, and searching detainees for weapons and contraband. Registers sex offenders as required.
Oversees detainees in allowable activities, such as telephone calls, commissary purchases, counsel, and family visitations. Distributes daily meals and ensures all trays are removed from cellblocks. Ensures personal hygiene of detainees and cleanliness of cell areas, accounting for all personal hygiene items, cleaning supplies, laundry, and equipment issued to detainees.
Provides detainees with prescribed medications according to orders of physician. Follows Department procedures to ensure detainees receive proper medical attention.
Ensures compliance with facility rules and regulations, including recording and reporting inappropriate behavior to appropriate Department personnel and taking necessary action to correct any problems that arise. Properly secures and/or physically restrains violent and uncontrollable detainees as situations demand.
Transports and/or escorts individuals detained by the County to various locations, such as Court, Department of Corrections (DOC), medical facilities and hospitals, dental appointments, recreation, library, AA, and other meetings and activities.
Responds to inquiries from family members, attorneys, and members of general public regarding visitation and status of individual detainees
Responds to detainee grievances following established chain of command procedures.
Maintains and updates institution logs, incident reports, daily activity reports, booking/release records, and medical records. Submits all reports and summaries of activities according to established Department deadlines.
Receives, sorts, inspects, and logs incoming and outgoing mail and personal items for detainees.
Answers telephone and receives jail visitors, including logging all calls and visitors, providing information and assistance, taking messages or directing calls/visitors to more appropriate individual or department.
Testifies in legal proceedings/court as necessary.
Attends seminars and in-service training as required.
Performs related duties as assigned or required.

Requirements:

High school diploma or GED.
Must be at least 19 years of age.
Completion of Indiana Law Enforcement Academy for Correctional Officers.
Possession of or ability to obtain required certifications and training, including, but not limited to, handgun/firearm qualification by the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy, First Responder/CPR certification, IDACS/NCIC certification, and taser, chemical spray, and defense tactics training.
Ability to meet all Department hiring requirements, including passage of written, medical and psychological exams, and a drug test.
Thorough knowledge of and ability to make practical application of the customary practices, procedures, rules, and regulations of the Department, and take authoritative action as situations demand.
Working knowledge of and ability to use all assigned Department equipment and weapons, including computer, calculator, radio, camera, fingerprint equipment, breathalyzer, handgun, stun gun, handcuffs, tear gas/mace, AED, SCBA/air pack, restraints, security panels, video monitoring, and fire suppression devices.

Vigo County, Indiana

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