Career Path

The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office is dedicated to the development of its deputies, their individual skills sets, and their leadership abilities. With this goal in mind, the Career Path was developed. The Career Path is designed to provide a road map for career progression for deputies within the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office. A deputy must complete all the training on the path before being eligible for promotion. The Sheriff’s Office works diligently to ensure that deputies have every available opportunity to attend the required trainings throughout their career.

Some examples of the training our deputies receive are: leadership schools, interview and interrogation classes, crime scene investigation, and drug identification courses (among many others).

You will find the current Garfield County Sheriffs Office Career Path below. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out to a recruiter at recruiting@garcosheriff.com.

Yearly In House Training

  • 16 hours of Firearms Training

  • 16 hours of Defensive Tactics (hand to hand combat)

  • Standard Field Sobriety Tests

  • Ethics

  • Verbal de-escalation

  • S.T.O.P.s training

Ride Along With a Deputy

Deputy I

Patrol

  • ICS 100, 200, 700 & 800

  • Ethics

  • Report Writing

  • Courtroom Testimony

  • Standard Field Sobriety Tests

  • Intoxilizer

  • Victims Rights Training

  • Interview and Interrogation

  • Conflict Resolution

  • Basic Crime Scene Investigation

  • Winter Driving

  • Must be current on in-house training

Detentions

  • ICS 100, 200, 700 & 800

  • Ethics

  • Report Writing

  • Courtroom Testimony

  • Victims Rights Training

  • Conflict Resolution

  • Inmate Mental Health & Suicide Prevention

  • Must be current on in-house training

Deputy II

Patrol

  • ARIDE Training

  • Train the Trainer

  • Spanish for Law Enforcement

  • Crime Scene Photography

  • Front Line Leadership (CSOC) or LPO

  • Prepare a Search Warrant

  • Prepare an Arrest Warrant

  • 10 hours Community Involvement

  • 36 hours with a Detention Deputy II

  • Community Problem Presentation

  • 2 shifts and 1 eviction with a Civil Deputy

Detentions

  • Basic Detentions Academy

  • Spanish for Corrections

  • Drug ID & Symptomology

  • Train the Trainer

  • Front Line Leadership (CSOC) or LPO

  • Facility Problem Presentation

  • 10 hours of Community Involvement

  • 36 hours with a Patrol Deputy II

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