Part-Time Patrol Deputy

Transylvania County Sheriff Department Law Enforcement Officer

The Transylvania County Sheriff Department is accepting applications for qualified sworn law enforcement officers to fill part-time and full-time positions within the patrol division. Candidates are typically hired in a part-time capacity, with the opportunity for full-time employment based on demonstrated performance, dedication, and departmental needs. This role performs protective service work enforcing laws, patrolling assigned areas, investigating criminal activity, serving civil papers, ensuring safety of the public, testifying in court, maintaining records and files, preparing reports, and related work as apparent or assigned. Please contact Lt. Jeremy Queen with questions.

Essential Functions

• Operates a patrol car to observe for violations of laws, suspicious activities or persons and disturbances of law and order; examines premises of unoccupied residences or buildings; detects unusual conditions; maintains surveillance and observation for stolen cars, missing persons or suspects.
• Responds to calls for assistance, complaints, suspicious activity, domestic disputes, loud and disruptive behavior; completes calls by determining true nature of the situation and taking whatever legal or persuasive action is warranted.
• Serves warrants, summons, subpoenas, court orders, and makes arrests; prepares reports; testifies in court.
• Conducts business checks and extra security checks.
• Performs investigations of crimes; interviews victims and witnesses, secures property and evidence, and documents facts and incidents, searches homes and personal property.
• Enforces traffic and criminal laws; issues citations for violations; and directs traffic for special events.
• Transports prisoners and mental patients to facilities throughout the State.
• Ensures service and arranges transportation for Involuntary Commitments.
• Responds to inquiries from the public; provides information to and educates the public on law enforcement issues.
• Acquires outside resources and/or provides law enforcement assistance to outside agencies, as necessary.
• May be assigned collateral duties such as civil process, K-9, etc. as qualified.
• Attends Court scheduled Court dates.
• Represents the Department at community functions.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of law enforcement methods, practices and procedures.
• Knowledge of the geography of the County and location of important buildings.
• Knowledge of the rules and regulations of the Sheriff's Office.
• Skill in the use of firearms and the operation of motor vehicles.
• Skill in physical agility and endurance.
• Ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions and to prepare clear comprehensive reports.
• Ability to deal courteously but firmly with the public.
• Ability to analyze situations and to adopt quick, effective and reasonable courses of action.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates and the general public.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS This work requires the regular exertion of up to 10 pounds of force, frequent exertion of up to 50 pounds of force and occasional exertion of over 100 pounds of force; work regularly requires speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or feel and reaching with hands and arms, frequently requires standing, walking, sitting and tasting or smelling and occasionally requires climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, pushing or pulling, lifting and repetitive motions; work requires close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception, color perception, night vision and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, using measuring devices, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities.

WORK ENVIRONMENT Work frequently requires working near moving mechanical parts and exposure to outdoor weather conditions and occasionally requires wet, humid conditions (non-weather), working in high, precarious places, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to the risk of electrical shock, working with explosives, exposure to vibration, wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus and exposure to blood borne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic). To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.

Education and Experience

Pre-employment Requirements include:

1. Be of good moral character.
2. Citizen of the United States.
3. Minimum of 21 years old.
4. High school diploma or equivalent (GED) required
5. Ability to pass a drug screening with negative results
6. Successful completion of a comprehensive background investigation, including a personal interview
7. No disqualifying or prohibitive criminal history
8. Possession of Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) certification

Post-Employment Training requirements include:

1. TCSO Field Training Program = 336 hours
2. Annual NC Department of Justice Mandated In-Service Training = 20 to 32 hours
3. Division of Criminal Information (DCI) training = 181 hours

Minimum Education and Experience: High School Diploma or its equivalent. Required Licenses or Certifications: Basic Law Enforcement Training Intoxilizer certifications. May be required to possess other specialized law enforcement certifications. Driver's License valid in the State of North Carolina.

Transylvania County Sheriff Department Law Enforcement Officer

The Transylvania County Sheriff Department is accepting applications for qualified sworn law enforcement officers to fill part-time and full-time positions within the patrol division. Candidates are typically hired in a part-time capacity, with the opportunity for full-time employment based on demonstrated performance, dedication, and departmental needs. This role performs protective service work enforcing laws, patrolling assigned areas, investigating criminal activity, serving civil papers, ensuring safety of the public, testifying in court, maintaining records and files, preparing reports, and related work as apparent or assigned. Please contact Lt. Jeremy Queen with questions.

Essential Functions

• Operates a patrol car to observe for violations of laws, suspicious activities or persons and disturbances of law and order; examines premises of unoccupied residences or buildings; detects unusual conditions; maintains surveillance and observation for stolen cars, missing persons or suspects.
• Responds to calls for assistance, complaints, suspicious activity, domestic disputes, loud and disruptive behavior; completes calls by determining true nature of the situation and taking whatever legal or persuasive action is warranted.
• Serves warrants, summons, subpoenas, court orders, and makes arrests; prepares reports; testifies in court.
• Conducts business checks and extra security checks.
• Performs investigations of crimes; interviews victims and witnesses, secures property and evidence, and documents facts and incidents, searches homes and personal property.
• Enforces traffic and criminal laws; issues citations for violations; and directs traffic for special events.
• Transports prisoners and mental patients to facilities throughout the State.
• Ensures service and arranges transportation for Involuntary Commitments.
• Responds to inquiries from the public; provides information to and educates the public on law enforcement issues.
• Acquires outside resources and/or provides law enforcement assistance to outside agencies, as necessary.
• May be assigned collateral duties such as civil process, K-9, etc. as qualified.
• Attends Court scheduled Court dates.
• Represents the Department at community functions.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of law enforcement methods, practices and procedures.
• Knowledge of the geography of the County and location of important buildings.
• Knowledge of the rules and regulations of the Sheriff's Office.
• Skill in the use of firearms and the operation of motor vehicles.
• Skill in physical agility and endurance.
• Ability to understand and carry out oral and written instructions and to prepare clear comprehensive reports.
• Ability to deal courteously but firmly with the public.
• Ability to analyze situations and to adopt quick, effective and reasonable courses of action.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with associates and the general public.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS This work requires the regular exertion of up to 10 pounds of force, frequent exertion of up to 50 pounds of force and occasional exertion of over 100 pounds of force; work regularly requires speaking or hearing, using hands to finger, handle or feel and reaching with hands and arms, frequently requires standing, walking, sitting and tasting or smelling and occasionally requires climbing or balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching or crawling, pushing or pulling, lifting and repetitive motions; work requires close vision, distance vision, ability to adjust focus, depth perception, color perception, night vision and peripheral vision; vocal communication is required for expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word and conveying detailed or important instructions to others accurately, loudly or quickly; hearing is required to perceive information at normal spoken word levels and to receive detailed information through oral communications and/or to make fine distinctions in sound; work requires preparing and analyzing written or computer data, visual inspection involving small defects and/or small parts, using measuring devices, operating machines, operating motor vehicles or equipment and observing general surroundings and activities.

WORK ENVIRONMENT Work frequently requires working near moving mechanical parts and exposure to outdoor weather conditions and occasionally requires wet, humid conditions (non-weather), working in high, precarious places, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, exposure to the risk of electrical shock, working with explosives, exposure to vibration, wearing a self-contained breathing apparatus and exposure to blood borne pathogens and may be required to wear specialized personal protective equipment; work is generally in a moderately noisy location (e.g. business office, light traffic). To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the essential job functions satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary job functions herein described. Since every duty associated with this position may not be described herein, employees may be required to perform duties not specifically spelled out in the job description, but which may be reasonably considered to be incidental in the performing of their duties just as though they were actually written out in this job description.

Education and Experience

Pre-employment Requirements include:

1. Be of good moral character.
2. Citizen of the United States.
3. Minimum of 21 years old.
4. High school diploma or equivalent (GED) required
5. Ability to pass a drug screening with negative results
6. Successful completion of a comprehensive background investigation, including a personal interview
7. No disqualifying or prohibitive criminal history
8. Possession of Basic Law Enforcement Training (BLET) certification

Post-Employment Training requirements include:

1. TCSO Field Training Program = 336 hours
2. Annual NC Department of Justice Mandated In-Service Training = 20 to 32 hours
3. Division of Criminal Information (DCI) training = 181 hours

Minimum Education and Experience: High School Diploma or its equivalent. Required Licenses or Certifications: Basic Law Enforcement Training Intoxilizer certifications. May be required to possess other specialized law enforcement certifications. Driver's License valid in the State of North Carolina.

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