Sheriff's Service Officer

About The Position

The Riverside County Sheriff's Office is accepting applications for Indio. Under general supervision, performs a variety of support services, maintenance tasks, and supply and record keeping activities for the Riverside County Sheriff's Department; and performs other related duties as required.

The Riverside County Sheriff's Office is accepting applications for Sheriff s Service Officer I to support the John Benoit Detention Center in Indio. Under general supervision, performs a variety of support services, maintenance tasks, and supply and record keeping activities for the Riverside County Sheriff s Department; and performs other related duties as required. The Sheriff s Service Officer II class differs from the I class in that the latter requires closer supervision while performing the duties and the former possesses six months of experience working in a law enforcement facility.

A Sheriff s Service Officer (SSO) is differentiated from a Community Services Officer (CSO) in that the SSO performs routine support activities that may require knowledge in a specific/limited area, but do not require extensive training and knowledge of multiple regulations, ordinances, and codes. SSO incumbents may perform some of the same duties of a CSO; however, these duties are performed at a County/City facility and under the supervision of a county employee, unlike the CSO incumbent who would perform these duties independently in the field without on-site supervision.

• Supervise trustees, work release, and labor program workers in performing routine vehicle and facility and grounds maintenance; ensure vehicles are cleaned, inspected, maintained, and serviced in order to meet the operational needs of the facility; maintain records of trustees, work release, and labor program worker s hours.
• Maintain the working order of a wide variety of equipment including safety equipment, emergency equipment, weapons, radios, radar equipment, and security cameras, and send out or pick up and deliver equipment for repair or adjustments as needed.
• Enter, track, and maintain various equipment inventories, logs, or other departmental records; maintain storage areas, store rooms, and inventory for facilities, vehicles, and equipment; order, pick up, and stock assigned forms, supplies and other necessary items such as keys, gas credit cards, license tags and plates; arrange vehicle painting; install department decals on vehicles; maintain records on vehicles concerning mileage, registration, repairs, and related requirements;
  
  ensure vehicles have necessary supplies and equipment such as trauma kits and fire extinguishers; conducts quality control inspections of vehicles.
• Perform background checks/investigations for permits and licenses; fingerprint the public; fingerprint, photograph, process and register identified members of the public, such as drug, sex, and arson registrants and suspects, as mandated by law.
• Take phone calls concerning background inquiries, internal, civil, and criminal issues, furnish information to the public and authorized law enforcement personnel over the telephone or at a counter in accordance with established departmental policy; write documenting reports; perform front counter duties at stations or bureaus; receive or prepare deliveries of equipment, supplies, and other materials.
• Enforce vehicle code parking regulations at a City/County facility by issuing warnings or citations for illegal parking; assist motorists and advise the general public of County parking regulations and parking violation procedures; report irregular circumstances to on-site law enforcement staff; appear in court to give testimony relative to citations.
• Process a variety of police reports by reviewing for complete and correct information, resolving errors, or obtaining missing information from deputies; gather background information on persons or property such as arrest record, outstanding warrants, stolen or recovered property, etc. for use in further investigations.
• Enter and retrieve on-line confidential law enforcement information; send messages over law enforcement data systems by computer terminal; process traffic citations and vehicular traffic incident reports; sort citations to appropriate courts; review citations for correct reporting code, vehicle code section, court date and time; obtain driver s license and driving record history from Department of Motor Vehicles.
• Transport vehicles, laboratory specimens, supplies, new or surplus equipment; transport evidence and other items as required to various locations including the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
• Assist sworn or forensic personnel with evidence collection, entry into ELEETS system (Law Enforcement Evidence Tracking System), and storage of evidence.
• May be tasked with the scheduling and tracking of training for station personnel, completion of registration paperwork, and…