With a distinguished 15 year tenure as a senior officer overseeing daily operations at a provincial correctional facility, responsibilities encompassed managing inmate living units, conducting security patrols, escorting prisoners, promptly responding to emergency codes, conducting thorough frisks, and seizing contraband manually. Proficient in entering warrants and accurately calculating offender sentences.
Employed as Supervisor and Loss Prevention Officer responsible for health, safety, site security matters, and medical emergency response. Demonstrating strong interpersonal and organizational communication skills, capable of presenting information effectively to groups. Possessing sharp critical thinking and problem solving abilities, adept at making decisions in fast paced, dynamic work environment.
Experienced in admissions and discharge officer tasks within team environment, responsible for facilitating all movements in and out of centre. Collaborated with multiple agencies including police, sheriffs, federal parole board, healthcare and legal professionals to manage admission and discharge of offenders. Duties involved conducting thorough searches of personal effects, operating body scan equipment and completing all necessary documentation. Ensured proper identification verification during offender release procedures, verified holding warrants and organized release plans for inmates.
With 10 years experience as Emergency Response Team (ERT) member and team leader, served as team instructor for distraction devices and munitions. Proficient in ERT armour, accountable for equipment maintenance, inventory cataloguing and procurement of new gear. Additionally served in critical incident response as team member and team leader, trained in after action procedures for decompressing and diffusing staff involved in critical incidents. Proficient in conducting individual “walk and talk” sessions and facilitating informal group settings for staff support.