Deputy Sheriff Academy Recruit (A08)

Deputy Sheriff Academy Recruit (A08)

Opening Date: February 14, 2025

Closing Date: March 16, 2025

Starting Pay: $20 hourly

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Academy Starts: June 2025

General Description:

The Deputy Sheriff Academy Recruit is a non-sworn full-time civilian employee with benefits who attends the Volusia Sheriff’s Office Deputy Recruit Academy, which is a Florida Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission (CJSTC) certified law enforcement academy, to learn and perform the responsibilities of an entry-level Florida Law Enforcement Officer. All requirements of the academy must be successfully fulfilled by the Deputy Sheriff Academy Recruit, including successful completion of the Florida CJSTC State Officer Certification exam. Upon graduation from the academy and award of a Florida CJSTC Certificate, the Deputy Sheriff Academy Recruit becomes a probationary Deputy Sheriff as a New Deputy in Training (NDT).

At the Volusia Sheriff’s Office, we serve with distinction. Our mission is to protect and serve with courage, honor, and integrity by fighting crime, maintaining trust, and building community partnerships.

Pre-Hire Requirements:

This position will require extensive background investigation and drug screening. This may include, but is not limited to, oral board evaluation(s), written assessment, physical assessment, computer voice stress analysis or polygraph, psychological evaluation, integrity interview, school and employer record checks, criminal background checks, credit analysis, financial records assessment, review of driving record, and reference checks. No felony convictions, arrests or misdemeanors as stated in F.S.S. 943.13.

Deputy Sheriff Academy Recruit candidates must take AND pass the Law Enforcement Criminal Justice Basic Abilities Test (CJBAT). Information on testing can be found at https://home.pearsonvue.com/fdle/bat. An applicant is exempt from taking the CJBAT if they have an associate’s degree or higher or is a U.S. Military Veteran with a DD-214 showing an honorable discharge from military service

Minimum Qualifications:

• Be nineteen (19) years of age upon graduation of the Volusia Sheriff's Office Training Academy
• Be a United States citizen
• Be a high school graduate or its equivalent
• Be able to possess a firearm in the State of Florida
• No felony convictions
• No domestic violence convictions
• No misdemeanor assault convictions
• No misdemeanor convictions involving perjury or a false statement
• No dishonorable or undesirable discharge from any of the Armed Forces of the United States
• Pass a physical examination based on specifications established by the CJSTC
• Must take and pass the physical abilities test (PAT)
• Ability to attend a variety of shifts, including weekends, and holidays
• Must have and maintain a valid Florida Driver’s License (minimum Class E)

Background Screening: This position will require an extensive background investigation and drug screening.

TOBACCO POLICY: It is this organization’s policy that individuals hired into special risk positions may not use any form of tobacco at any time, whether on or off duty, as a condition of employment. Candidates must be nicotine-free by the time of pre-employment physical/drug examination, including nicotine-containing products used in tobacco replacement therapies.

Essential Functions:

This position is accountable to perform the duties, responsibilities and expectations of a Deputy Sheriff Academy Recruit assigned to the Volusia Sheriff’s Office Training Academy. In addition to following Volusia Sheriff’s Office General Orders, the Deputy Sheriff Academy Recruit must always adhere to the rules, policies and safety procedures outlined in the Deputy Sheriff Academy Recruit policy and procedures manual, to include all academy rules, regulations and student policies. Other duties include, but are not limited to:

• Attends, participates, and successfully completes the Deputy Sheriff training academy and passes all required classes, scenarios, physical training and other assigned duties and tasks.
• Performs rigorous physical training.
• Learns the use and care of firearms, chemical agents, and other weapons.
• Learns to drive a motor vehicle under normal and emergency conditions safely.
• Understands and carries out oral and written directions.
• Learn to demonstrate command presence and employ de-escalation tactics in conflict situations.
• Learn to write clear, comprehensive, and accurate school reports and any academy examples of police reports.
• Learn to establish and maintain effective working relationships with those contacted in the course of employment; learn principles and practices of effective interpersonal communication and good customer service.
• Learn to understand, interpret, and apply criminal and civil laws, court decisions, regulations, policies, and procedures with reference to the laws of arrest, use of force, custody, search and seizure, juvenile laws and procedures, property crimes, crimes against persons, crimes against children, sex crimes, domestic violence, missing persons, weapons violations, alcohol, and controlled substances.
• Demonstrates the ability to learn and implement law enforcement methods and procedures (may include, but not limited to, patrol techniques, vehicle stops, response to crimes in progress, apprehension of suspects, defensive tactics, traffic enforcement, control and collision investigation, crowd control, and gang and terrorism awareness).
• Demonstrates the ability to learn and implement crime scene management, forensics, collection, preservation, and presentation of evidence; identification techniques; interviewing and interrogation techniques.
• Demonstrates the ability to learn first aid, hazardous materials awareness, emergency management, and the Incident Command System.
• Demonstrates the ability to learn the community policing philosophy, crime prevention, victimology/crisis Intervention, cultural diversity/discrimination, and people with disabilities.
• Maintains a moral, ethical, and legal standard commensurate with the rules of the academy and policies denoted in the Volusia Sheriff’s Office General Order manual; furthers personal integrity, accountability, leadership, professional appearance, and actions.
• Learn to use modern law enforcement equipment, communications devices, computers, and information systems.
• Delivers outstanding internal and external customer service, communicates effectively orally and in writing with fellow students, teachers, and staff; solves problems.
• Exercises initiative, courtesy, and independent judgment; establishes and maintains effective working relationships.
• Provides sound decision making skills and critical thinking to provide professional recommendations, decisions and completed academy work.
• Conducts duties, responsibilities, tasks and assignments with a constructive, cooperative, positive, and professional attitude and demeanor.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Status: Civilian

Blood and Viral Pathogen Risk: Foreseeable Risk

Environmental Conditions:

• Work may involve varying shifts and work hours
• Physical acts requiring strength and endurance may be required
• Works during inclement weather
• Involves exposure to physically demanding and sometimes hazardous situations, events or persons
• Works under extreme varying degrees of stress
• Some exposure to morbid crime scenes involving the human body
• Works with a firearm and other required weapons
• Must be able to work under stressful conditions
• Must be able to relocate to other county locations based upon operational needs
• Must be able to remain available to work when a public emergency or disaster occurs

Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to read and comprehend professional and technical manuals, procedures, journals and documents; legal documents; maps and layouts; memos, reports, summaries and evaluations
• Ability to write complex documents relaying information, data, and details
• Ability to operate public address system
• Ability to conduct pat down, search for weapons
• Ability to follow commands
• Ability to recognize basic signs and causes of death
• Ability to disassemble and reassemble firearm
• Ability to operate a motor vehicle
• Ability to speak, read, and write English
• Ability to use approved defensive weapons
• Ability to perform minor vehicle maintenance
• Ability to read gauges and odometers
• Ability to operate calculator
• Ability to evaluate
• Ability to read a map
• Ability to operate a camera
• Ability to operate tape recorder
• Ability to listen and understand
• Ability to detect suspicious activity/circumstances
• Ability to identify makes and models of vehicles
• Ability to locate vehicle identification number
• Ability to evaluate credibility and reliability
• Ability to recognize informative placards or signs
• Ability to monitor radio traffic
• Ability to operate common computers and software
• Ability to perform basic mathematical functions
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely
• Reading and oral comprehension
• Keyboarding
• Interpersonal
• Organizational
• Basic investigation
• Interview
• Observation
• Tactical driving
• Tactical communication
• Basic crime scene processing
• Weapons proficiency

Required Knowledge:

• VSO General Orders and procedures.
• Florida State Statutes
• Criminal Justice System
• Geographical area
• Resistance/Control Continuum
• Radio codes, signals, Unit identifications
• Case Reporting Manual
• Manufacture’s standards
• Issue weapon nomenclature
• Surfaces conductive to fingerprinting
• Fingerprinting techniques
• Appearance of fingerprints
• Camera operation
• Evidence handing
• Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)
• Types of evidence
• Evidence collection
• Illegal substance appearance
• Narcotics field test procedures
• Officer safety techniques
• Case
• Domestic violence procedures
• Child/elderly abuse procedures
• Specialty team procedures
• Area characteristics
• First aid/CPR
• Crowd control techniques
• Human Anatomy
• Firearm safety procedures
• Public safety concerns
• Building/area search techniques
• Mobile field force system
• Defensive techniques
• Reference data
• Support units available
• Community services
• Referral sources
• Social and public assistance agencies
• Abnormal behavior
• Special function requirements
• Roadblock equipment
• Effects of intoxicants/drugs
• Field sobriety testing
• Crash investigation

Physical Requirements:

• Heavy to very heavy work
• Run a minimum of fifty (50) yards
• Climb a minimum of six (6) feet
• Jump a minimum of six (6) feet
• Drag, lift, push, pull, carry a minimum of one hundred fifty (150) pounds
• Crawl a minimum of ten (10) yards
• Swim a minimum of fifty (50) yards with a flotation device
• Operate emergency vehicles
• Traverse all types of terrain, i.e. urban, woods, swamp, hills
• Use restraints, i.e. handcuffs, hobble
• Sit for long periods of time
• Bend, crouch, reach, see, hear, smell, pull, push, stand, kneel, handle, stoop, balance, talk, feel, finger dexterity
• Effectuate an arrest with or without resistance
• Perform shift work, 24 hours a day, seven (7) days a week
• Visual acuity of 20/30 vision standard in each eye, Corrective lenses must be used to satisfy 20/30 vision standard, Uncorrected vision should be no worse than 20/100 in each eye
• Pass hearing test with less than 40 decibels in each ear under frequencies 2,000 Hz, 3,000 Hz, and 4,000 Hz
• Major visual functions are acuity, far and near, field of vision, and accommodation
• Visual acuity (peripheral vision and depth perception) necessary to operate a motorized vehicle

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

Salary : $20