- Industry: Government; Labor
- Number of terms: 77176
- Number of blossaries: 0
- Company Profile:
A professional who detects thievery or problems of morality, or verifies employee conformance to company policies and procedures, working in any occupation of establishment. Respnsibilities include:
* Talks to employees to gain their friendship and confidence.
* Observes daily routines of employees and unusual occurrences.
* Performs duties of regular employees, such as sales, stock control, or truck driving, depending on assignment and experience.
* Maintains record of activities and makes periodic reports to home office.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who detects thievery or problems of morality, or verifies employee conformance to company policies and procedures, working in any occupation of establishment. Respnsibilities include:
* Talks to employees to gain their friendship and confidence.
* Observes daily routines of employees and unusual occurrences.
* Performs duties of regular employees, such as sales, stock control, or truck driving, depending on assignment and experience.
* Maintains record of activities and makes periodic reports to home office.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who patrols place of entertainment to preserve order among patrons and protect property. Respnsibilities include:
* Circulates among patrons to prevent improper dancing, skating, or similar activities, and to detect persons annoying other patrons or damaging furnishings of establishment.
* Warns patrons guilty of infractions and evicts them tactfully from premises if they become unruly or ejects them by force if necessary.
* Calls police if unable to quell disturbance.
* May be designated according to type of establishment patrolled as Fun-House Attendant; Guard, Dance Hall; Ice Guard, Skating Rink.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who patrols place of entertainment to preserve order among patrons and protect property. Respnsibilities include:
* Circulates among patrons to prevent improper dancing, skating, or similar activities, and to detect persons annoying other patrons or damaging furnishings of establishment.
* Warns patrons guilty of infractions and evicts them tactfully from premises if they become unruly or ejects them by force if necessary.
* Calls police if unable to quell disturbance.
* May be designated according to type of establishment patrolled as Fun-House Attendant; Guard, Dance Hall; Ice Guard, Skating Rink.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who patrols premises of business establishment to preserve order and enforce standards of decorum established by management. Respnsibilities include:
* Requests patrons to conform with rules pertaining to dress, behavior, or sobriety.
* Requests undesirable persons, such as inebriates, rowdies, known criminals, or perverts to leave premises and forcibly ejects undesirables or notifies police.
* May be designated according to employing establishment as Detective, Bowling Alley; Special Officer, Automat.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who guards, patrols, and polices railroad yards, stations, and other facilities to protect company property. Respnsibilities include:
* Examines credentials of persons desiring entrance to unauthorized areas.
* Patrols yards to apprehend unauthorized persons and remove them from yard.
* Walks about stations or terminal to maintain order.
* Polices right-of-way to prevent dumping of rubbish on company grounds.
* Arrests persons dumping rubbish on grounds.
* Cooperates with local law enforcement agencies in apprehending trespassers or thieves.
* May record seal numbers of boxcars containing high pilferage items, such as cigarettes and liquor, and verify record with electronic data processing list of original seal and car numbers to detect pilfered cars.
* May seal empty boxcars by twisting nails in door hasps, using nail twister.
* May be designated according to assigned post as Gate Guard; Right-Of-Way Inspector; Station Patroller; Yard Patroller.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of officers engaged in gathering and identifying evidence and operating radio relay transmitters to furnish information to fire and law enforcement departments. Respnsibilities include:
* Designs and installs criminal identification filing systems, such as fingerprint, photograph, modus operandi and name, criminal-wanted and crimes reported files, to facilitate information retrieval.
* Directs exchange of criminal records between department and local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies.
* Prepares operator's work schedules to ensure round-the-clock coverage of radio transceivers.
* Assigns officers to duties according to work load.
* Verifies fingerprint classifications performed by identification officer to ensure accuracy.
* Collects and processes evidence in homicide cases.
* Testifies in court as qualified fingerprint expert.
* Determines equipment needs and prepares and submits request for federal grants upon approval of deputy sheriff, chief.
* Checks permit prior to hook-up of commercial establishment's burglar alarm to department's communication system.
* Analyzes and resolves or assists subordinates in resolving work problems.
* Estimates annual expenditures, prepares budget, and submits to superior for review.
* Directs staff in preparation of activity and statistical reports.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of personnel engaged in executing mandates of civil court. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews contents of orders, such as summonses, garnishments, property seizures, and arrest orders, for adherence to state laws and county ordinances.
* Assigns cases to deputy sheriff, civil division for execution of court orders.
* Discusses cases with subordinates and recommends course of action.
* Prepares legal notices of sheriff's sales by arranging for posting in public places and mailing copy to newspapers.
* Oversees or conducts sale of real and personal property legally confiscated by county.
* Reviews reports to determine progress and disposition of cases.
* Oversees collection, recording, and depositing of legal fees gathered by subordinates.
* Examines civil division accounts and financial records for completeness and accuracy.
* Submits data for audits by state and county officials.
* Writes reports on civil division activities and submits to superiors.
* Disciplines staff for violation of regulations and resolves personnel problems.
* Performs duties such as serving civil court orders, seizing property, and making arrests.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of one or more squad units in law enforcement activities of patrol and criminal division of county sheriff's department. Respnsibilities include:
* Reviews duty log of previous shift.
* Assigns units to posts based on activities of log or on order of deputy sheriff, chief.
* Tours patrol areas to ensure execution of orders and adherence to divisional work procedures.
* Inspects uniform appearance of officers and checks patrol vehicles for conformity to standards.
* Directs squad activities in cases of civil unrest or emergency to coordinate deployment of human resources and weapons, first aid units, sniper-suppression teams, search-rescue units, and mounted forces.
* Consults with state and local law enforcement agencies to provide or obtain information.
* Prepares reports about patrol activities, squad efficiency, discipline, and personnel evaluation and submits reports to superior.
* Prepares shift schedules and human resource projections.
* Conducts hearings in cases of misconduct of subordinates.
* Evaluates reports on undercover operations, determines priority, and assigns personnel to cases.
* Supervises officers in obtaining court orders and oversees procedures involved with arrests, fingerprinting, and filing of charges.
* Trains officers in police techniques.
* Assists subordinates in operations, such as surveillance, raids, and arrests.
* May speak before civic groups on law enforcement topics.
* May act as receiving officer for division when accepting delivery of equipment and supplies.
* May act as extradition officer for division.
* May perform duties of absent deputy sheriff, chief.
Industry:Professional careers
A professional who supervises and coordinates activities of court peace officers engaged in providing security and maintaining order within individual courtrooms and throughout courthouse. Respnsibilities include:
* Tours and inspects duty stations of bailiff to ensure compliance with regulation job duties and correct appearance.
* Patrols courthouse to quell disturbances and to keep order.
* Trains newly appointed officers in performance of job duties.
* Communicates with court clerks to identify day's court calendar.
* Prepares and schedules work assignments of court officers, and issues daily duty assignments.
* Prepares jury's meal vouchers for court official assigned to escort jurors to restaurant.
* Secures lodging facilities and transportation for jurors deliberating lengthy trials.
* Prepares and submits activity and time reports to deputy sheriff, chief.
* May witness name selection list of prospective jurors to ensure impartiality.
* May perform duties of bailiff.
Industry:Professional careers
