Criminal Justice Technology, A.S.
Associate in Science
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About this Program
The Criminal Justice Technology, A.S. degree prepares students for a rewarding career in law enforcement or corrections and also helps persons already employed in those fields advance in their professions.
Total Credit Hours:
60
Estimated Time to Complete Program:
4 terms*
*based on 15 credit hours per term
Estimated Tuition Cost:
$6,049.80*
Eligible for Financial Aid:
Yes
Eligible for Veteran's Aid:
Yes
*based on current in-state tuition rate of $100.83 per credit hour
Program Overview & Requirements
Program Purpose:
To prepare students for employment in law enforcement or corrections and to meet the needs of persons employed in those fields who want to advance in their professions.
Program Length:
60 credit hours
Academic Division:
Behavioral, Social Sciences and Education Division
Contact:
(850) 201-8488
View Information about Graduation Requirements and Year of Entry .
Note: Articulation agreements for A.S. degrees in Criminal Justice Technology are in place with Barry University and Florida Gulf Coast University. For information, contact Frank Leonard, (850) 201-9609, leonardf@tcc.fl.edu. (Students may earn only one A.S. degree in Criminal Justice Technology.)
General Education (15 credit hours)
- ENC1101 College Composition 3 credit hour(s)
- Any General Education Humanities State Core course 3 credit hour(s)
- Any General Education Mathematics State Core course 3 credit hour(s)
- Any General Education Natural Sciences State Core course 3 credit hour(s)
- Any General Education Social Sciences State Core course 3 credit hour(s)
Program Courses (45 credit hours)
- CJE1000 Law Enforcement 3 credit hour(s) A
or
- CJC1000 Corrections 3 credit hour(s) B
- CCJ1020 The Criminal Justice System 3 credit hour(s) A
- CCJ1600 Deviant Behavior 3 credit hour(s)
- CCJ2000 Crime and Delinquency: Nature and Causes 3 credit hour(s)
- CCJ2452 Justice Administration 3 credit hour(s)
- CCJ2930 Seminar on Contemporary Criminal Justice Issues 3 credit hour(s)
- CJC2162 Probation, Pardons, Parole 3 credit hour(s)
- CJE2330 Ethics in Criminal Justice 3 credit hour(s)
- CJE2600 Criminal Investigation 3 credit hour(s) A
- CJE2640 Crime Scene Investigation 3 credit hour(s) A
- CJJ2002 Juvenile Justice 3 credit hour(s)
- CJL1500 The Court System 3 credit hour(s)
- CJL2100 Criminal Law 3 credit hour(s)
- CJL2130 Criminal Evidence and Procedures 3 credit hour(s) A
- Any college-credit course 3 credit hour(s)
First Semester
- Make an appointment to meet with an advisor & declare a meta-major
- Attend events during First Year Experience Week
- Check on the Course Requirements
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Main Campus
(850) 201 – 8193
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Looking for a faster option to get into the workforce?
Consider one of these certificates:
- Law Enforcement Basic Recruit PSAV Certificate (834 clock hrs.)
- Law Enforcement Crossover: Corrections to Law Enforcement PSAV Certificate (555 clock hrs.)
- Law Enforcement Crossover: Correctional Probation to Law Enforcement PSAV Certificate (607 clock hrs.)
- Corrections Basic Recruit PSAV Certificate (460 clock hrs.)
- Corrections Crossover: Law Enforcement to Corrections PSAV Certificate (212 clock hrs.)
- Corrections Crossover: Correctional Probation to Corrections PSAV Certificate (290 clock hrs.)
- Correctional Probation Basic Recruit Basic Recruit PSAV Certificate (489 clock hrs.)
- Correctional Probation Crossover: Corrections to Correctional Probation PSAV Certificate (234 clock hrs.)
- Correctional Probation Crossover: Law Enforcement to Correctional Probation PSAV Certificate (212 clock hrs.)
- Firefighter PSAV Certificate (206-398 clock hrs.)
- Telecommunications PSAV Certificate (232 clock hrs.)
- Unarmed Private Security Officer PSAV Certificate (28 clock hrs.)
- Armed Private Security Officer PSAV Certificate (28 clock hrs.)
By 30 credit hours
- Visit Career Center
Student Union, 2nd Floor, Student Support Services - Maintain a 2.0 GPA
- Make an appointment to meet with an advisor
- Check on the Course Requirements
- Review your degree audit in TCC EagleNet
By 45 credit hours (75% completion)
- Meet with Career Placement Coordinator in TCC Career Center
- Complete graduation check workshop online.
(You will receive an email notification when you are eligible.) - Want to Walk? Commencement ceremonies only take place once a year, so check the deadline!
- Review your degree audit in TCC EagleNet
Last semester
- Review your degree audit in TCC EagleNet
- Review Graduation Checklist
- You Must Apply for Degree (for instructions, click here)
Contact information
Behavioral, Social Sciences and Education
P: (850) 201-8488
E: HSS@tcc.fl.edu
Advising
TCC Main Campus
Student Union Building, Second Floor
P: (850) 201-8440
E: advisingcenter@tcc.fl.edu
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3Annual Openings
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- Check courtroom for security and cleanliness and assure availability of sundry supplies, such as notepads, for use by judge, jurors, and attorneys.
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- Stop people from entering courtroom while judge charges jury.
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Collect evidence at crime scene, classify and identify fingerprints, and photograph evidence for use in criminal and civil cases.
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Sample Daily Tasks
- Maintain records of evidence and write and review reports.
- Package, store and retrieve evidence.
- Submit evidence to supervisors, crime labs, or court officials for legal proceedings.
- Testify in court and present evidence.
- Analyze and process evidence at crime scenes, during autopsies, or in the laboratory, wearing protective equipment and using powders and chemicals.
- Look for trace evidence, such as fingerprints, hairs, fibers, or shoe impressions, using alternative light sources when necessary.
- Photograph crime or accident scenes for evidence records.
- Dust selected areas of crime scene and lift latent fingerprints, adhering to proper preservation procedures.
- Create sketches and diagrams by hand or with computer software to depict crime scenes.
- Serve as technical advisor and coordinate with other law enforcement workers or legal personnel to exchange information on crime scene collection activities.
- Coordinate or conduct instructional classes or in-services, such as citizen police academy classes and crime scene training for other officers.
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1Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Keep informed of activities or changes that could affect the likelihood of an emergency, as well as those that could affect response efforts and details of plan implementation.
- Prepare emergency situation status reports that describe response and recovery efforts, needs, and preliminary damage assessments.
- Prepare plans that outline operating procedures to be used in response to disasters or emergencies, such as hurricanes, nuclear accidents, and terrorist attacks, and in recovery from these events.
- Coordinate disaster response or crisis management activities, such as ordering evacuations, opening public shelters, and implementing special needs plans and programs.
- Develop and maintain liaisons with municipalities, county departments, and similar entities to facilitate plan development, response effort coordination, and exchanges of personnel and equipment.
- Apply for federal funding for emergency-management-related needs and administer and report on the progress of such grants.
- Design and administer emergency or disaster preparedness training courses that teach people how to effectively respond to major emergencies and disasters.
- Inspect facilities and equipment, such as emergency management centers and communications equipment, to determine their operational and functional capabilities in emergency situations.
- Consult with officials of local and area governments, schools, hospitals, and other institutions to determine their needs and capabilities in the event of a natural disaster or other emergency.
- Attend meetings, conferences, and workshops related to emergency management to learn new information and to develop working relationships with other emergency management specialists.
- Collaborate with other officials to prepare and analyze damage assessments following disasters or emergencies.
- Propose alteration of emergency response procedures based on regulatory changes, technological changes, or knowledge gained from outcomes of previous emergency situations.
- Develop and perform tests and evaluations of emergency management plans in accordance with state and federal regulations.
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- Train local groups in the preparation of long-term plans that are compatible with federal and state plans.
- Provide communities with assistance in applying for federal funding for emergency management facilities, radiological instrumentation, and other related items.
- Conduct surveys to determine the types of emergency-related needs to be addressed in disaster planning or provide technical support to others conducting such surveys.
- Study emergency plans used elsewhere to gather information for plan development.
- Develop and implement training procedures and strategies for radiological protection, detection, and decontamination.
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Gather, analyze, or evaluate information from a variety of sources, such as law enforcement databases, surveillance, intelligence networks or geographic information systems. Use intelligence data to anticipate and prevent organized crime activities, such as terrorism.
28Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Gather, analyze, correlate, or evaluate information from a variety of resources, such as law enforcement databases.
- Validate known intelligence with data from other sources.
- Prepare comprehensive written reports, presentations, maps, or charts based on research, collection, and analysis of intelligence data.
- Study activities relating to narcotics, money laundering, gangs, auto theft rings, terrorism, or other national security threats.
- Collaborate with representatives from other government and intelligence organizations to share information or coordinate intelligence activities.
- Evaluate records of communications, such as telephone calls, to plot activity and determine the size and location of criminal groups and members.
- Gather intelligence information by field observation, confidential information sources, or public records.
- Link or chart suspects to criminal organizations or events to determine activities and interrelationships.
- Study the assets of criminal suspects to determine the flow of money from or to targeted groups.
- Design, use, or maintain databases and software applications, such as geographic information systems (GIS) mapping and artificial intelligence tools.
- Predict future gang, organized crime, or terrorist activity, using analyses of intelligence data.
- Establish criminal profiles to aid in connecting criminal organizations with their members.
- Gather and evaluate information, using tools such as aerial photographs, radar equipment, or sensitive radio equipment.
- Interview, interrogate, or interact with witnesses or crime suspects to collect human intelligence.
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Loss Prevention Manager
Plan and direct policies, procedures, or systems to prevent the loss of assets. Determine risk exposure or potential liability, and develop risk control measures.
51Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Administer systems and programs to reduce loss, maintain inventory control, or increase safety.
- Identify potential for loss and develop strategies to eliminate it.
- Perform or direct inventory investigations in response to shrink results outside of acceptable ranges.
- Investigate or interview individuals suspected of shoplifting or internal theft.
- Coordinate or conduct internal investigations of problems such as employee theft and violations of corporate loss prevention policies.
- Train loss prevention staff, retail managers, or store employees on loss control and prevention measures.
- Supervise surveillance, detection, or criminal processing related to theft and criminal cases.
- Monitor compliance to operational, safety, or inventory control procedures, including physical security standards.
- Hire or supervise loss-prevention staff.
- Visit stores to ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Recommend improvements in loss prevention programs, staffing, scheduling, or training.
- Review loss-prevention exception reports and cash discrepancies to ensure adherence to guidelines.
- Direct loss prevention audit programs including target store audits, maintenance audits, safety audits, or electronic article surveillance (EAS) audits.
- Verify correct use and maintenance of physical security systems, such as closed-circuit television, merchandise tags, and burglar alarms.
- Provide recommendations and solutions in crisis situations such as workplace violence, protests, and demonstrations.
- Assess security needs across locations to ensure proper deployment of loss prevention resources, such as staff and technology.
- Analyze retail data to identify current or emerging trends in theft or fraud.
- Maintain documentation of all loss prevention activity.
- Develop and maintain partnerships with federal, state, or local law enforcement agencies or members of the retail loss prevention community.
- Monitor and review paperwork procedures and systems to prevent error-related shortages.
- Advise retail establishments on development of loss-investigation procedures.
- Coordinate theft and fraud investigations involving career criminals or organized group activities.
- Collaborate with law enforcement to investigate and solve external theft or fraud cases.
- Advise retail managers on compliance with applicable codes, laws, regulations, or standards.
- Direct installation of covert surveillance equipment, such as security cameras.
- Maintain databases such as bad check logs, reports on multiple offenders, and alarm activation lists.
- Perform cash audits and deposit investigations to fully account for store cash.
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Transit and Railroad Police
Transit and Railroad Police
Protect and police railroad and transit property, employees, or passengers.
0Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Prepare reports documenting investigation activities and results.
- Monitor transit areas and conduct security checks to protect railroad properties, patrons, and employees.
- Apprehend or remove trespassers or thieves from railroad property or coordinate with law enforcement agencies in apprehensions and removals.
- Patrol railroad yards, cars, stations, or other facilities to protect company property or shipments and to maintain order.
- Investigate or direct investigations of freight theft, suspicious damage or loss of passengers' valuables, or other crimes on railroad property.
- Direct security activities at derailments, fires, floods, or strikes involving railroad property.
- Examine credentials of unauthorized persons attempting to enter secured areas.
- Enforce traffic laws regarding the transit system and reprimand individuals who violate them.
- Provide training to the public or law enforcement personnel in railroad safety or security.
- Plan or implement special safety or preventive programs, such as fire or accident prevention.
Wages
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Fraud Examiner, Investigator or Analyst
Fraud Examiner, Investigator or Analyst
Obtain evidence, take statements, produce reports, and testify to findings regarding resolution of fraud allegations. May coordinate fraud detection and prevention activities.
19Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Prepare written reports of investigation findings.
- Document all investigative activities.
- Interview witnesses or suspects and take statements.
- Gather financial documents related to investigations.
- Analyze financial data to detect irregularities in areas such as billing trends, financial relationships, and regulatory compliance procedures.
- Review reports of suspected fraud to determine need for further investigation.
- Conduct in-depth investigations of suspicious financial activity, such as suspected money-laundering efforts.
- Lead, or participate in, fraud investigation teams.
- Prepare evidence for presentation in court.
- Coordinate investigative efforts with law enforcement officers and attorneys.
- Testify in court regarding investigation findings.
- Recommend actions in fraud cases.
- Evaluate business operations to identify risk areas for fraud.
- Create and maintain logs, records, or databases of information about fraudulent activity.
- Maintain knowledge of current events and trends in such areas as money laundering and criminal tools and techniques.
- Negotiate with responsible parties to arrange for recovery of losses due to fraud.
- Advise businesses or agencies on ways to improve fraud detection.
- Train others in fraud detection and prevention techniques.
- Design, implement, or maintain fraud detection tools or procedures.
- Conduct field surveillance to gather case-related information.
- Research or evaluate new technologies for use in fraud detection systems.
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Probation Officer and Correctional Treatment Specialist
Probation Officer and Correctional Treatment Specialist
Provide social services to assist in rehabilitation of law offenders in custody or on probation or parole. Make recommendations for actions involving formulation of rehabilitation plan and treatment of offender, including conditional release and education and employment stipulations.
17Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Interview probationers and parolees regularly to evaluate their progress in accomplishing goals and maintaining the terms specified in their probation contracts and rehabilitation plans.
- Recommend remedial action or initiate court action in response to noncompliance with terms of probation or parole.
- Prepare and maintain case folder for each assigned inmate or offender.
- Administer drug and alcohol tests, including random drug screens of offenders, to verify compliance with substance abuse treatment programs.
- Discuss with offenders how such issues as drug and alcohol abuse and anger management problems might have played roles in their criminal behavior.
- Conduct prehearing and presentencing investigations and testify in court regarding offenders' backgrounds and recommended sentences and sentencing conditions.
- Write reports describing offenders' progress.
- Inform offenders or inmates of requirements of conditional release, such as office visits, restitution payments, or educational and employment stipulations.
- Arrange for medical, mental health, or substance abuse treatment services according to individual needs or court orders.
- Supervise people on community-based sentences, such as electronically monitored home detention, and provide field supervision of probationers by conducting curfew checks or visits to home, work, or school.
- Develop liaisons and networks with other parole officers, community agencies, correctional institutions, psychiatric facilities, and aftercare agencies to plan for helping offenders with life adjustments.
- Gather information about offenders' backgrounds by talking to offenders, their families and friends, and other people who have relevant information.
- Arrange for postrelease services, such as employment, housing, counseling, education, and social activities.
- Develop rehabilitation programs for assigned offenders or inmates, establishing rules of conduct, goals, and objectives.
- Develop and prepare packets containing information about social service agencies, assistance organizations, and programs that might be useful for inmates or offenders.
- Provide offenders or inmates with assistance in matters concerning detainers, sentences in other jurisdictions, writs, and applications for social assistance.
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Police, Fire, and Ambulance Dispatcher
Police, Fire, and Ambulance Dispatcher
Operate radio, telephone, or computer equipment at emergency response centers. Receive reports from the public of crimes, disturbances, fires, and medical or police emergencies. Relay information to law enforcement and emergency response personnel. May maintain contact with caller until responders arrive.
8Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Determine response requirements and relative priorities of situations, and dispatch units in accordance with established procedures.
- Question callers to determine their locations, and the nature of their problems to determine type of response needed.
- Record details of calls, dispatches, and messages.
- Scan status charts and computer screens, and contact emergency response field units to determine emergency units available for dispatch.
- Receive incoming telephone or alarm system calls regarding emergency and non-emergency police and fire service, emergency ambulance service, information, and after-hours calls for departments within a city.
- Enter, update, and retrieve information from teletype networks and computerized data systems regarding such things as wanted persons, stolen property, vehicle registration, and stolen vehicles.
- Relay information and messages to and from emergency sites, to law enforcement agencies, and to all other individuals or groups requiring notification.
- Maintain access to, and security of, highly sensitive materials.
- Observe alarm registers and scan maps to determine whether a specific emergency is in the dispatch service area.
- Monitor various radio frequencies such as those used by public works departments, school security, and civil defense to keep apprised of developing situations.
- Read and effectively interpret small-scale maps and information from a computer screen to determine locations and provide directions.
- Maintain files of information relating to emergency calls, such as personnel rosters, and emergency call-out and pager files.
- Learn material and pass required tests for certification.
- Answer routine inquiries, and refer calls not requiring dispatches to appropriate departments and agencies.
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Fire Investigator
Fire Investigator
Conduct investigations to determine causes of fires and explosions.
1Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Prepare and maintain reports of investigation results, and records of convicted arsonists and arson suspects.
- Testify in court cases involving fires, suspected arson, and false alarms.
- Package collected pieces of evidence in securely closed containers, such as bags, crates, or boxes, to protect them.
- Analyze evidence and other information to determine probable cause of fire or explosion.
- Examine fire sites and collect evidence such as glass, metal fragments, charred wood, and accelerant residue for use in determining the cause of a fire.
- Photograph damage and evidence related to causes of fires or explosions to document investigation findings.
- Instruct children about the dangers of fire.
- Coordinate efforts with other organizations, such as law enforcement agencies.
- Teach fire investigation techniques to other firefighter personnel.
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Police Detective
Police Detective
Conduct investigations to prevent crimes or solve criminal cases.
28Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Provide testimony as a witness in court.
- Check victims for signs of life, such as breathing and pulse.
- Secure deceased body and obtain evidence from it, preventing bystanders from tampering with it prior to medical examiner's arrival.
- Obtain facts or statements from complainants, witnesses, and accused persons and record interviews, using recording device.
- Record progress of investigation, maintain informational files on suspects, and submit reports to commanding officer or magistrate to authorize warrants.
- Examine crime scenes to obtain clues and evidence, such as loose hairs, fibers, clothing, or weapons.
- Obtain evidence from suspects.
- Prepare charges or responses to charges, or information for court cases, according to formalized procedures.
- Preserve, process, and analyze items of evidence obtained from crime scenes and suspects, placing them in proper containers and destroying evidence no longer needed.
- Note, mark, and photograph location of objects found, such as footprints, tire tracks, bullets and bloodstains, and take measurements of the scene.
- Obtain summary of incident from officer in charge at crime scene, taking care to avoid disturbing evidence.
- Examine records and governmental agency files to find identifying data about suspects.
- Secure persons at scene, keeping witnesses from conversing or leaving the scene before investigators arrive.
- Take photographs from all angles of relevant parts of a crime scene, including entrance and exit routes and streets and intersections.
- Analyze completed police reports to determine what additional information and investigative work is needed.
- Provide information to lab personnel concerning the source of an item of evidence and tests to be performed.
- Videotape scenes where possible, including collection of evidence, examination of victim at scene, and defendants and witnesses.
- Prepare and serve search and arrest warrants.
- Question individuals or observe persons and establishments to confirm information given to patrol officers.
- Organize scene search, assigning specific tasks and areas of search to individual officers and obtaining adequate lighting as necessary.
- Participate or assist in raids and arrests.
- Summon medical help for injured individuals and alert medical personnel to take statements from them.
- Block or rope off scene and check perimeter to ensure that entire scene is secured.
- Notify, or request notification of, medical examiner or district attorney representative.
- Notify command of situation and request assistance.
- Note relevant details upon arrival at scene, such as time of day and weather conditions.
- Maintain surveillance of establishments to obtain identifying information on suspects.
- Monitor conditions of victims who are unconscious so that arrangements can be made to take statements if consciousness is regained.
- Coordinate with outside agencies and serve on interagency task forces to combat specific types of crime.
- Schedule polygraph tests for consenting parties and record results of test interpretations for presentation with findings.
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Immigration and Customs Inspector
Immigration and Customs Inspector
Investigate and inspect persons, common carriers, goods, and merchandise, arriving in or departing from the United States or between states to detect violations of immigration and customs laws and regulations.
28Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Examine immigration applications, visas, and passports and interview persons to determine eligibility for admission, residence, and travel in the U.S.
- Detain persons found to be in violation of customs or immigration laws and arrange for legal action, such as deportation.
- Inspect cargo, baggage, and personal articles entering or leaving U.S. for compliance with revenue laws and U.S. customs regulations.
- Locate and seize contraband, undeclared merchandise, and vehicles, aircraft, or boats that contain such merchandise.
- Interpret and explain laws and regulations to travelers, prospective immigrants, shippers, and manufacturers.
- Institute civil and criminal prosecutions and cooperate with other law enforcement agencies in the investigation and prosecution of those in violation of immigration or customs laws.
- Testify regarding decisions at immigration appeals or in federal court.
- Record and report job-related activities, findings, transactions, violations, discrepancies, and decisions.
- Determine duty and taxes to be paid on goods.
- Collect samples of merchandise for examination, appraisal, or testing.
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Security Manager
Security Manager
Direct an organization's security functions, including physical security and safety of employees, facilities, and assets.
51Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Create or implement security standards, policies, and procedures.
- Identify, investigate, or resolve security breaches.
- Respond to medical emergencies, bomb threats, fire alarms, or intrusion alarms, following emergency response procedures.
- Monitor and ensure a sound, ethical environment.
- Plan, direct, or coordinate security activities to safeguard company assets, employees, guests, or others on company property.
- Develop, implement, manage, or evaluate policies and methods to protect personnel against harassment, threats, or violence.
- Develop, conduct, support, or assist in governmental reviews, internal corporate evaluations, or assessments of the overall effectiveness of facility and personnel security processes.
- Assess risks to mitigate potential consequences of incidents and develop a plan to respond to incidents.
- Train subordinate security professionals or other organization members in security rules and procedures.
- Communicate security status, updates, and actual or potential problems, using established protocols.
- Direct or participate in emergency management and contingency planning.
- Conduct threat or vulnerability analyses to determine probable frequency, criticality, consequence, or severity of natural or man-made disasters or criminal activity on the organization's profitability or delivery of products or services.
- Supervise or provide leadership to subordinate security professionals, performing activities such as hiring, investigating applicants' backgrounds, training, assigning work, evaluating performance, or disciplining.
- Write or review security-related documents, such as incident reports, proposals, and tactical or strategic initiatives.
- Develop budgets for security operations.
- Analyze and evaluate security operations to identify risks or opportunities for improvement through auditing, review, or assessment.
- Develop or manage integrated security controls to ensure confidentiality, accountability, recoverability, or auditability of sensitive or proprietary information or information technology resources.
- Monitor security policies, programs or procedures to ensure compliance with internal security policies, licensing requirements, or applicable government security requirements, policies, and directives.
- Coordinate security operations or activities with public law enforcement, fire and other agencies.
- Conduct physical examinations of property to ensure compliance with security policies and regulations.
- Collect and analyze security data to determine security needs, security program goals, or program accomplishments.
- Review financial reports to ensure efficiency and quality of security operations.
- Purchase security-related supplies, equipment, or technology.
- Develop or manage investigation programs, including collection and preservation of video and notes of surveillance processes or investigative interviews.
- Develop, arrange for, perform, or assess executive protection activities to reduce security risks.
- Plan security for special and high-risk events.
- Support efforts to reduce substance abuse or other illegal activities in the workplace.
- Develop, recommend, or manage security procedures for operations or processes, such as security call centers, system acquisition, development, and maintenance, access control, program models, or reporting tools.
- Prepare reports or make presentations on internal investigations, losses, or violations of regulations, policies and procedures.
- Attend meetings, professional seminars, or conferences to keep abreast of changes in executive legislative directives or new technologies impacting security operations.
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Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff
Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff
Enforce law and order in rural or unincorporated districts or serve legal processes of courts. May patrol courthouse, guard court or grand jury, or escort defendants.
60Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Investigate illegal or suspicious activities.
- Drive vehicles or patrol specific areas to detect law violators, issue citations, and make arrests.
- Verify that the proper legal charges have been made against law offenders.
- Take control of accident scenes to maintain traffic flow, to assist accident victims, and to investigate causes.
- Execute arrest warrants, locating and taking persons into custody.
- Record daily activities and submit logs and other related reports and paperwork to appropriate authorities.
- Notify patrol units to take violators into custody or to provide needed assistance or medical aid.
- Serve statements of claims, subpoenas, summonses, jury summonses, orders to pay alimony, and other court orders.
- Question individuals entering secured areas to determine their business, directing and rerouting individuals as necessary.
- Patrol and guard courthouses, grand jury rooms, or assigned areas to provide security, enforce laws, maintain order, and arrest violators.
- Transport or escort prisoners and defendants en route to courtrooms, prisons or jails, attorneys' offices, or medical facilities.
- Locate and confiscate real or personal property, as directed by court order.
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Security Management Specialist
Security Management Specialist
Conduct security assessments for organizations, and design security systems and processes. May specialize in areas such as physical security, personnel security, and information security. May work in fields such as health care, banking, gaming, security engineering, or manufacturing.
157Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Engineer, install, maintain, or repair security systems, programmable logic controls, or other security-related electronic systems.
- Recommend improvements in security systems or procedures.
- Perform risk analyses so that appropriate countermeasures can be developed.
- Conduct security audits to identify potential vulnerabilities related to physical security, staff safety, or asset protection.
- Provide system design and integration recommendations.
- Design security policies, programs, or practices to ensure adequate security relating to asset protection, alarm response, access card use, and other security needs.
- Assess the nature and level of threats so that the scope of the problem can be determined.
- Design, implement, or establish requirements for security systems, video surveillance, motion detection, or closed-circuit television systems to ensure proper installation and operation.
- Respond to emergency situations on an on-call basis.
- Determine the value loss impact and criticality of assets.
- Prepare, maintain, or update security procedures, security system drawings, or related documentation.
- Develop conceptual designs of security systems.
- Monitor the work of contractors in the design, construction, and startup phases of security systems.
- Develop or review specifications for design or construction of security systems.
- Outline system security criteria for pre-bid meetings with clients and companies to ensure comprehensiveness and appropriateness for implementation.
- Train personnel in security procedures or use of security equipment.
- Review design drawings or technical documents for completeness, correctness, or appropriateness.
- Inspect security design features, installations, or programs to ensure compliance with applicable standards or regulations.
- Test security measures for final acceptance and implement or provide procedures for ongoing monitoring and evaluation of the measures.
- Budget and schedule security design work.
- Prepare documentation for case reports or court proceedings.
- Inspect fire, intruder detection, or other security systems.
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Security Guard
Security Guard
Guard, patrol, or monitor premises to prevent theft, violence, or infractions of rules. May operate x-ray and metal detector equipment.
118Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Lock doors and gates of entrances and exits to secure buildings.
- Answer alarms and investigate disturbances.
- Monitor and authorize entrance and departure of employees, visitors, and other persons to guard against theft and maintain security of premises.
- Write reports of daily activities and irregularities, such as equipment or property damage, theft, presence of unauthorized persons, or unusual occurrences.
- Patrol industrial or commercial premises to prevent and detect signs of intrusion and ensure security of doors, windows, and gates.
- Call police or fire departments in cases of emergency, such as fire or presence of unauthorized persons.
- Circulate among visitors, patrons, or employees to preserve order and protect property.
- Respond to medical emergencies by administering basic first aid or by obtaining assistance from paramedics.
- Warn persons of rule infractions or violations, and apprehend or evict violators from premises, using force when necessary.
- Answer telephone calls to take messages, answer questions, and provide information during non-business hours or when switchboard is closed.
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Child, Family, or School Social Worker
Child, Family, or School Social Worker
Provide social services and assistance to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their families and to maximize the family well-being and the academic functioning of children. May assist parents, arrange adoptions, and find foster homes for abandoned or abused children. In schools, they address such problems as teenage pregnancy, misbehavior, and truancy. May also advise teachers.
23Annual Openings
Sample Daily Tasks
- Maintain case history records and prepare reports.
- Interview clients individually, in families, or in groups, assessing their situations, capabilities, and problems to determine what services are required to meet their needs.
- Serve as liaisons between students, homes, schools, family services, child guidance clinics, courts, protective services, doctors, and other contacts to help children who face problems, such as disabilities, abuse, or poverty.
- Develop and review service plans in consultation with clients and perform follow-ups assessing the quantity and quality of services provided.
- Consult with parents, teachers, and other school personnel to determine causes of problems, such as truancy and misbehavior, and to implement solutions.
- Counsel parents with child rearing problems, interviewing the child and family to determine whether further action is required.
- Address legal issues, such as child abuse and discipline, assisting with hearings and providing testimony to inform custody arrangements.
- Arrange for medical, psychiatric, and other tests that may disclose causes of difficulties and indicate remedial measures.
- Counsel individuals, groups, families, or communities regarding issues including mental health, poverty, unemployment, substance abuse, physical abuse, rehabilitation, social adjustment, child care, or medical care.
- Collect supplementary information needed to assist client, such as employment records, medical records, or school reports.
- Provide, find, or arrange for support services, such as child care, homemaker service, prenatal care, substance abuse treatment, job training, counseling, or parenting classes to prevent more serious problems from developing.
- Refer clients to community resources for services, such as job placement, debt counseling, legal aid, housing, medical treatment, or financial assistance, and provide concrete information, such as where to go and how to apply.
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