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The most important skills for a prison officer resume and required skills for a prison officer to have include:

Below we've compiled a list of the most critical prison officer skills. We ranked the top skills for prison officers based on the percentage of resumes they appeared on. For example, 58.4% of prison officer resumes contained security checks as a skill. Continue reading to find out what skills a prison officer needs to be successful in the workplace. 

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<ul><li>Protected public safety by ensuring no imate escaped or fled.</li><li>Protect, educate and habilitate male inmates in a correctional facility.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Collaborate with the public, media, and other law enforcement agencies as necessary.</li><li>Facilitated jail entry of all program visitors, monitor inmate behavioral patterns.</li><li>Managed inmates concerns, daily activities, living environment, and discipline 
 Documented daily activity</li><li>Direct supervision of all offender activities, security checks, medication distribution, and random or scheduled housing and cell searches.</li><li>Assisted law enforcement agents with Spanish translation interviews, asylum purposes, and bond outs releasing.</li><li>Schedule visits within computer system, report any discipline complaints, and report civilian complaints to supervisors.</li></ul>

Prison Guard

<ul><li>Monitor inmates in a controlled setting .making head counts and passing out trays</li><li>Perform random cell searches and pat/strip searches of offenders for contraband.</li><li>Managed inmate behavior and used appropriate force when necessary.</li><li>Patrolled assigned areas, observed inmate behavior, recorded observations.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Provide care, custody and control of inmates Supervise the movement/activities of inmates and perform roll call Maintain order within the facility</li><li>Verified facility security by inspecting plumbing, outside areas, locks and cells for potential hazards.</li><li>Reported unusual inmate behaviors in the Psychiatric Seclusion Unit (M-3).</li><li>Direct a staff consisting of 6 JCO III officers and 48 youth and performed Shift Leader functions.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Manage the inmate population by walking around the housing units and talking to inmates.</li><li>Observe, evaluate inmate behavior and accommodate the needs of disabled and special risk inmates.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Moved merchandise from the back of the store to the sales floor.</li><li>unload either grocery or general merchandise truck, stock items on the sales floor</li><li>Cash handling, merchandising, merchandise ordering, clean, stocked, and organized sales floor for my department.</li><li>Stock shelves according to the need of the items.</li></ul>

Support Team Member

<ul><li>Protect, educate and habilitate male inmates in a correctional facility.</li><li>Provided security for staff and inmates at the correctional facility.</li><li>Monitor inmate behavior to ensure guidelines were being followed.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Inspected the cleaning of correctional facility to meet requirements of state and local officials.</li><li>Maintained communication with the applicable dorms via radio to assure effective inmate relocation.</li><li>Patrolled entire correctional facility area periodically to prevent escapes and maintained order.</li><li>Manage protective supervision during recreation, work assignments and other daily activities.</li></ul>

<ul><li>certified in direct supervision jails) and Former Field Training Officer.</li><li>Performed official body counts of the inmate population.</li><li>Inspected the cleaning of correctional facility to meet requirements of state and local officials.</li><li>Worked well with other law enforcement agencies and with the public I was in contact with.</li><li>Charged with supervision, care, custody, and control of inmates housed at the facility.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Monitor inmate behavior and safety during meal, recreational, and lock-in times.</li><li>Secured the premises as a security guard 
 Conducted head counts of the inmates for protection 
 Seized and reported all contraband found</li><li>Admitted prisoners to the Department's Correctional Facility; ensured that inmates were properly photographed and searched.</li><li>Respond to emergencies throughout the correctional facility to ensure safety and order</li><li>Trained in pat and strip searches, area searches of inmate quarters, and perimeter checks.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Maintained open communication with State and local Law Enforcement Agencies regarding incoming and released inmates.</li><li>Write reports describing events that happened, such as incident reports, disciplinary reports, etc.</li><li>Maintain security for all areas of the jail facility.</li><li>Supported all investigative missions and prepared reports for other law enforcement agencies.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Follow company policies and procedures as outlined in the Standard Operating Procedures manual, Employee Handbook, and company communications.</li><li>Retrieve new merchandise and put it on the floor.</li></ul>

Cashier

<ul><li>Job was to oversee and participate in the custody, security, and treatment of prisoners in correctional facilities.</li><li>Managed inmate conduct and submitted reports on inmate behavior.</li><li>Oversee supervision, custody, treatment, and training of inmates confined in a correctional facility.</li><li>Enforced laws within the correctional facility.</li><li>Monitored daily activities of inmate population.</li><li>Serve as a mentor/trainer for incoming staff members.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Worked closely with other State and local law enforcement agencies in identifying and apprehending undocumented criminal aliens in the United States.</li><li>Conducted meetings with local, municipal and state law enforcement and correctional facilities, courts, parole and probation offices.</li><li>Supported initiatives advanced by DHS/ICE to my counterparts at Post and the Russian law enforcement community.</li><li>Summarize reports and extracts essential information received from the intelligence community and other law enforcement agencies into single cohesive reports.</li><li>Served as an Emergency Response Officer.</li><li>Supported all investigative missions and prepared reports for other law enforcement agencies.</li></ul>

<ul><li>Managed back room operations including inventory and store integrity.</li><li>Pulled customer orders from sales floor and storage area for customer's pick up.</li><li>Give customer Service when needed.</li><li>Resolved employment-related disputes through proactive communication.</li></ul>

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A security check is the processing of manually or automatically checking if a person is armed before entering a building. It's also the checking of a perimeter to see if it's secure. It goes further into the investigation on the background of an individual before the person is employed in an organization to check if there's any criminal record of the person in the past.

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An Incident Report, in a medical facility such as hospitals and nursing homes, is a type of paperwork filled out immediately after and in the case of an incident of some sort, with the goal of describing the incident and its consequences, as well as the measurements taken after or during the incident, as well as any other information relevant to said incident. Such an incident might be a patient acting out or a patient being injured.

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