PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Rutledge, TN

Deputy Sheriff

Responsibilities:

• Affect an arrest, forcibly if necessary.
• Subdue resisting subjects using hands and feet while employing defensive tactic maneuvers, or approved non - lethal weapons.
• Pursue fleeing suspects on foot both day and night in unfamiliar terrain.
• Use bodily force to gain entrance through barriers to search, seize, investigate and/or rescue.
• Perform searches of persons.
• Climb over obstacles, through openings, jump down from elevated surfaces. Jump over obstacles, ditches and streams.
• Crawl in confined areas to pursue, search, investigate and/or rescue.
• Conduct searches of buildings and large outdoor areas.
• Perform tasks which require lifting, carrying, or dragging people or heavy objects while performing arrest, rescue or general patrol functions.
• Prepare investigative and other reports, using appropriate grammar, symbols and mathematical computations.
• Communicate effectively over law enforcement radio channels while initiating and responding to radio communications.
• Communicate verbally and effectively by listening to people and by giving information, directions and commands.
• Conduct visual and audio surveillance for extended periods of time.
• Perform law enforcement patrol functions while working rotating shifts and unanticipated overtime.
• Operate emergency vehicle during both the day and night in pursuit situations involving speeds in excess of posted limits while exercising due care and caution, in exception to traffic control devices and in congested traffic, unsafe road conditions and environmental conditions.
• Load, unload, aim and fire handguns, shotguns, and other agency firearms from a variety of body positions in situations that justify the use of deadly force while maintaining emotional control under extreme stress.
• May serve a variety of civil actions.
• Conduct law enforcement investigations to include the following critical tasks: protect crime and traffic accident scenes, conduct interviews, record information, measure and diagram crime and traffic accident scenes, prepare detailed reports of investigative findings, seize and process evidence, present testimony and evidence in both civil and criminal court proceedings.
• Perform a variety of public assistance activities. Exercise independent judgment within legal guidelines.
• Maintain P.O.S.T. certification requirements and adhere to all office policies and procedures. Be present at work site to perform assigned tasks at the times and dates scheduled/assigned by the supervisor.

Confidential, Jackson, TN

Security Guard

Responsibilities:

• Responds to unusual or emergency situations at client’s site using the appropriate escalation of force level up to and including armed response by following established protocol.
• Maintains proficiency in the use of all assigned protective equipment, restraint devices and weapons.
• Controls access to client site or facility through the admittance process; precludes unauthorized access to facilities, and the conversion, theft or intentional destruction of physical assets.
• Observes and reports activities and incidents, providing for the security and safety of client property and personnel.
• Makes periodic tours to check for irregularities and to inspect protection devices and fire control equipment.
• Preserves order and acts to enforce regulations and directives for the site pertaining to personnel, visitors, and premises.
• Monitors entrances and exits; acts to prevent unapproved or unlawful entry; controls entrances, the movement of people and vehicles, and parking.
• Patrols assigned site on foot or in vehicle; checks for unsafe conditions, hazards, unlocked doors, security violations.
• Observes and reports incidents or suspicious activity to client representatives or company management.
• Responds to incidents of fire, medical emergency, bomb threat, flooding, water discharge, elevator emergency, hazardous materials, inclement weather, and other incidents.
• Prepares logs and reports as required

Confidential, Kingsport, TN

Security Officer

Responsibilities:

• Responds to unusual or emergency situations at client’s site using the appropriate escalation of force level up to and including armed response by following established protocol.
• Maintains proficiency in the use of all assigned protective equipment, restraint devices and weapons.
• Controls access to client site or facility through the admittance process; precludes unauthorized access to facilities, and the conversion, theft or intentional destruction of physical assets.
• Observes and reports activities and incidents, providing for the security and safety of client property and personnel.
• Makes periodic tours to check for irregularities and to inspect protection devices and fire control equipment.
• Preserves order and acts to enforce regulations and directives for the site pertaining to personnel, visitors, and premises.
• Monitors entrances and exits; acts to prevent unapproved or unlawful entry; controls entrances, the movement of people and vehicles, and parking.
• Patrols assigned site on foot or in vehicle; checks for unsafe conditions, hazards, unlocked doors, security violations.
• Observes and reports incidents or suspicious activity to client representatives or company management.
• Responds to incidents of fire, medical emergency, bomb threat, flooding, water discharge, elevator emergency, hazardous materials, inclement weather, and other incidents.
• Prepares logs and reports as required

Confidential, Rogersville, TN

Corrections Officer

Responsibilities:

• Conducting security walks and headcounts.
• Performing inmate cell searches.
• Performing searches of inmates and visitors.
• Performing strip searches of inmates.
• Conducting continual visual surveillance of inmates and various areas of detention facilities.
• Providing inmate services, recreation, serving meals, visitation and clothing exchanges.
• Selecting and operating appropriate buttons, switches and knobs used to control doors, sliders, and communication systems.
• Monitoring and controlling all activities regarding inmate movement.
• Pursuing fleeing inmates on foot.
• Using body force to gain entrance through barriers to seize or rescue inmates.
• Subduing resisting inmates using approved non-lethal weapons i.e., pepper spray
• Performing basic first aid procedures and cardiopulmonary resuscitation as needed.
• Gathering information for investigations by interviewing and obtaining the statements of the victims, witnesses, suspects and confidential informants.
• Preparing logbook entries and writing reports.
• Taking inventory and inspecting security equipment.
• Operating telephones, electronic equipment, fingerprint equipment, cameras and fax machines.
• Communicating over radio channels while initiating and responding to radio communications.
• Managing interpersonal conflicts to maintain order.

Confidential, Rutledge, TN

911 Dispatcher

Responsibilities:

• Monitor emergency and general support radio frequencies;
• Receive emergency and non-emergency calls, including enhanced 911, and non-emergency calls from the public, dispatchers, and law enforcement agencies via telephone, radio systems and CAD systems.
• Determine priorities of all calls and dispatch required units and/or agencies.
• Receive radio calls from field units.
• Transmit messages via radio, telephone, computer, fax, or other communication equipment.
• Make inquiries of various sources to obtain requested information or services by phone or computer automated communication equipment.
• Maintain status and location control of all public safety personnel involved in department activities.
• Dispatch the assignment of field units and routes them to the scene of emergency situations.
• Create and maintain automated and/or manual records of public safety communications activities.
• Use various computer systems, databases and mapping applications for data entry and information retrieval.
• Maintain appropriate security and confidentiality of information created or encountered in the performance of assigned duties.
• May assist in the provision of on-the-job training for other positions using or serviced by CAD and/or the Communications Section;
• May be assigned to train new hire dispatchers and complete and submit progress reports and evaluations on trainees;
• May be assigned limited supervisory duties on a temporary basis.

Confidential, Rogersville, TN

Full Time 911 Dispatcher/Shift Leader

Responsibilities:

• Monitor emergency and general support radio frequencies;
• Receive emergency and non-emergency calls, including enhanced 911, and non-emergency calls from the public, dispatchers, and law enforcement agencies via telephone, radio systems and CAD systems.
• Determine priorities of all calls and dispatch required units and/or agencies.
• Receive radio calls from field units.
• Transmit messages via radio, telephone, computer, fax, or other communication equipment.
• Make inquiries of various sources to obtain requested information or services by phone or computer automated communication equipment.
• Maintain status and location control of all public safety personnel involved in department activities.
• Dispatch the assignment of field units and routes them to the scene of emergency situations.
• Create and maintain automated and/or manual records of public safety communications activities.
• Use various computer systems, databases and mapping applications for data entry and information retrieval.
• Maintain appropriate security and confidentiality of information created or encountered in the performance of assigned duties.
• May assist in the provision of on-the-job training for other positions using or serviced by CAD and/or the Communications Section;
• May be assigned to train new hire dispatchers and complete and submit progress reports and evaluations on trainees;
• May be assigned limited supervisory duties on a temporary basis.