Detention Team Lead

The Grand Prairie Police Department is looking for a Detention Team Lead to join our team!

To be successful as a Detention Team Lead, in addition to the duties of a detention officer (maintaining care, custody and control/security of the detention facility and the prisoners housed therein), Detention Team Leads will also conduct and evaluate training for new Detention Officers during the 13‑week DTO Program. They will act as the shift supervisor in their absence, including reviewing prisoner intakes and releases from custody and making daily operational decisions involving the well‑being, safety, security, and efficiency of the prisoners and facility by ensuring that policies and procedures are followed.

• Review, establish, and conduct new Detention Officer training and ensure that new detention officers receive competent training in all Detention Center areas of knowledge, including searching prisoners and cells, performing intake procedures, working the housing floor, control tower and bond desk. Observe and monitor their work and provide feedback to correct deficiencies and coordinate work assignments. Document progress using Daily Observation Reports and complete Remedial Training plans when appropriate.
• Review all documents and attachments to ensure all charges are listed, intake requirements are met, prisoners’ screenings and classifications are complete and do not require follow‑up action. Review release documents to ensure that all charges have been satisfied prior to release, the identity of the person being released has been verified, and that all property has been returned as appropriate.
• Document and report accurate information by ensuring that daily shift reports and statistics are submitted, the Bond Desk Tills are audited at the beginning and end of shift, and the daily deposits and till reports are verified. Ensure that Incident and Use of Force reports are completed, reviewed, and sent to the Detention Manager for review.
• Ensure that proper staffing levels are met to run a safe, secure, and efficient facility. Maintain the security of the facility by performing periodic checks on staff and the facility security devices. When acting as the shift supervisor and staffing levels are too low, may authorize overtime and require call‑back duty personnel to report to work.
• All other duties as assigned by a supervisor/manager within your department/division.

• Work requires knowledge necessary to understand basic operational, technical, or office processes. Level of knowledge equivalent to four years of high school or equivalency.
• Over one (1) year as a municipal Detention Officer. Preferred experience in Grand Prairie Detention Center.
• Valid Texas Class C Driver’s License required; TCOLE certifications: defensive tactics training, and other mandatory training as required within one (1) year from date of hire, plus Detention (Field) Training Officer Course: successfully completed within six (6) months of promotion.
• Intermediate—ability to read papers, periodicals, journals, manuals, dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias. Ordinarily, such education is obtained in high school up to college but may be obtained from experience and self‑study.
• Regular and dependable attendance is required.