Job Information
CITY OF ST JOSEPH Booking Officer in SAINT JOSEPH, Missouri
Job Summary/Scope Handles all duties related to prisoner intake and security for the Police Department. No supervisory or budgetary responsibility.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Answers phone and directs calls to the appropriate destination.
- Answers routine inquiries from citizens and other law enforcement agencies.
- Prepares and enters computer record of arrestee information.
- Completes a security check of each city prisoner at a minimum every 30 minutes.
- Provides for necessities such as food, mandatory phone calls, lights and medical care for city prisoner.
- Releases prisoners from custody when appropriate.
- Completes all necessary paperwork on bonds.
- Receives, secures and accounts for cash received for bonds.
- Receives, inventories and secures all prisoner personal property.
Other Duties and Responsibilities Occasionally assists officers in restraining unruly individuals at the booking desk. Performs all other related duties as assigned.
Employee Behavior and Conduct City employees shall conduct themselves in a professional manner and shall exhibit and extend such professional conduct appropriate for the circumstances to those with whom they come into contact both internally and externally during the performance of their duties. Examples of professional conduct include, but are not limited to, being communicative, informative, fair, honest, and respectful.