8-5531
SUFFOLK COUNTY
DEPUTY SHERIFF I
CIVIL SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
http://www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Departments/Civil-Service
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LAST FILING DATE: FEBRUARY 2, 2022
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WRITTEN TEST DATE: MARCH 26, 2022
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COUNTY ANNUAL
SALARY $33,000*
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*Plus additional
salary increases per the 2019-2024 contract
SPECIFICATION # 5531
All
statements made on the application may be verified and
the backgrounds of successful candidates are subject to investigation by the
appointing authority.
SPECIAL
NOTE: Candidates who filed an application for the
original examination date of June 6, 2020 will automatically
be scheduled for the March 26, 2022 examination and are NOT required to
submit a new application.
APPLICATION PROCESSING FEE and FEE WAIVER
The application processing
fee is $125. Application may be made via the internet at www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Departments/Civil-Service. Payment must be made
by VISA or MasterCard credit card and there will be an additional convenience
fee of $1.95. An acknowledgement of receipt
of application will be sent to all internet applicants
via e-mail. A separate application and processing fee are required for each
examination (identified by examination number) for which you are applying. The application processing
fee is non-refundable and non-transferable.
The application
processing fee may be waived for Suffolk County residents who are
veterans, auxiliary police, firefighters, members in good standing of a local
fire district or ambulance company, members of a Volunteer Fire Department or
Volunteer Emergency Medical Services Agency Explorers programs, volunteer CERT
members and members of the Suffolk County Police Explorers program. The fee may also be waived if you are unemployed and primarily
responsible for the support of a household and for recipients of Medicaid, SSI,
Public Assistance or those in a training program under the Job Training
Partnership Act/Workforce Investment Act administered by a state or local
social service agency. Applicants should complete the “Request for Application
Fee Waiver and Certification” form online. All claims for application fee
waiver are subject to verification.
VACANCIES
The eligible list for this title will be used to fill future vacancies in the Suffolk County
Sheriff’s Office.
DUTIES
An employee in this class enforces the
laws of New York State, including Civil, Penal and Vehicle and Traffic
Law. The employee makes arrests,
transports prisoners, serves legal processes, patrols highways and secures
court detention facilities. Routine
assignments and special orders are received from
superior officers who review work methods and results through reports,
inspections and discussions. Does
related work as required.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Graduation from a standard senior high
school or possession of a high school equivalency diploma recognized by the New
York State Department of Education by the date of appointment.
Special
Age Requirement: Candidates must be at least 19 years and 6
months old on or before the date of the written test. Pursuant to Section 54 of Civil Service Law,
applicants within six months of the minimum age will be
permitted into the competition.
Therefore, candidates who will be 19 years of age by the exam date will
be eligible. Eligibility for appointment
as a Deputy Sheriff I begins when the candidate reaches age 20. Candidates who reach their 35th birthday
before the date of the written exam are not eligible except as follows: Candidates may have a period of active
military duty, up to seven years as defined in Section 243 (10-a) of the
Military Law, deducted from their age for purposes of determining whether they
meet the age requirement.
License
Requirement: Possession of a valid New York State driver’s
license at the time of appointment.
Residence
Requirement: There are no residence requirements to
compete in this examination. However,
pursuant to local law, only Suffolk
County residents are eligible for appointment. To be deemed a
resident of Suffolk County, an applicant must have been a legal resident of
Suffolk County at the time of certification for appointment and for at least 90
calendar days prior thereto.
Police
Officer Training Course Requirement:
After appointment, candidates will be required to
successfully complete a Police Officer Training Course recognized by the
New York State Municipal Training Council.
Citizenship
Requirement: Candidates must be United States citizens at
the time of appointment.
Note: Pursuant to the provisions of Section 217A of
the County Law, candidates who have been convicted of
a felony will be barred from appointment and candidates who have been convicted
of a misdemeanor may be barred from employment.
SCOPE OF THE EXAMINATION
The examination for this position will
consist of four parts:
I. The
written test will cover knowledge, skills, and/or abilities in such
areas as:
1.
Understanding
and applying laws, rules and procedures in law enforcement;
2.
Understanding
and interpreting written material;
3.
Preparation
of written material and reports.
Those candidates who receive passing
grades on the written test will be called for the
qualifying medical/physical evaluation, personality/psychological evaluation and
physical fitness-screening test AS THE
NEEDS OF THE SERVICE REQUIRE.
II. Physical/Medical
Evaluation – (See page 3)
Candidates will be
required to meet the medical/physical standards for Deputy Sheriff I as
prescribed by Suffolk County. Candidates
who successfully meet the standards may be required to be
re-evaluated at intervals prescribed by the Suffolk County Office of
Employee Health Services.
III. Personality/Psychological
Evaluation – This part of the exam will be administered
during the workweek (Monday – Friday).
IV. Physical
Fitness Screening Test – (See page 4)
Candidates must pass all portions of this
examination to be eligible for appointment.
Rank on the eligible list will be determined by
written test scores only, plus veterans’ credits if applicable. Failure or failure to appear as scheduled for
any of these tests or evaluations will result in the elimination of a
candidate’s application from further consideration for purposes of this
competition.
NOTES
1.
Should it become necessary to amend any
part of this announcement, the Department of Human Resources, Personnel and
Civil Service reserves the right to make such amendment on the Department’s web
page without notification to applicants.
The most current copy of this announcement is available during the
filing period at www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Departments/Civil-Service.
2.
Candidates
who apply for this examination and who have not heard from the Suffolk County
Department of Human Resources, Personnel and Civil Service by March 23, 2022
are advised to contact the Department before the
written test date at (631) 853-5500. You can view your room assignment and exam
site on our home page at www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Departments/Civil-Service
under “Candidate Exam Room Assignment Search” seven days prior to the
examination date.
LOCAL
DATE
PREPARED: November 16, 2021
GENERAL CONDITIONS OPEN-COMPETITIVE
ANNOUNCEMENT
1.
Application
may be made using the Suffolk County Application for
Employment (Forms CS-205A and CS-205B).
Applicants may complete a “Request for Application Fee Waiver and
Certification” form and submit it with Forms CS-205A and CS-205B.
2.
Unless
otherwise stated, candidates must meet the minimum qualifications by the date
of the written test, or last filing date in the case of training and experience
evaluations. Unless otherwise stated
part-time experience will be pro-rated.
Candidates found ineligible to compete in the written examination may
appeal to the Department of Human Resources, Personnel and Civil Service for
reconsideration prior to the written test date appearing on this
announcement. Appeals received on or
after the announced written test date will not be
considered.
3.
Candidates
who fail the examination, or who fail to appear for the examination as
scheduled, will be eliminated from further
consideration for purposes of this competition.
Unless otherwise specified, the final rank order of the eligible list
will be determined on the basis of the score received
on the written test, plus veterans’ credits where appropriate.
4.
Eligible
applicants will be notified when and where to appear for examination. If an application is rejected, due notice
will be sent.
5.
Unless
specifically prohibited by the examination instructions, candidates are permitted to use quiet, hand-held, solar or
battery-powered calculators. Devices
with typewriter keyboards, spell-checker, personal digital assistant, address
books, language translators, dictionaries and any similar devices are prohibited.
6.
When
the examination is prepared and rated by the Suffolk County
Department of Human Resources, Personnel and Civil Service, the
provisions of the Suffolk County Civil Service Rules dealing with the rating of
examination will apply. When the written
examination is prepared and rated by the New York State Department of Civil
Service in accordance with Section 23-2 of the Civil Service Law, the
provisions of the New York State Civil Service Rules and Regulations
which deal with the rating of examination will apply.
7.
The
eligible list established as a result of this
examination will remain in force for at least one year and may be extended by
the Department of Human Resources, Personnel and Civil Service for a maximum of
four years. Changing conditions may make
it necessary to certify to future vacancies at higher or lower salaries than
those announced.
8.
Information
regarding eligibility for veterans’ credits appears on the open-competitive
application form.
9.
Pursuant
to Section 85-a of the Civil Service Law, children of firefighters and police
officers killed in the line of duty shall be entitled to receive an additional
ten points added to a passing score attained in a competitive examination for original
appointment in the same municipality in which his or her parent served. If you are qualified to participate in this
examination, and you are the child of a firefighter or police officer killed in
the line of duty, please so notify us in writing when you submit your
application for examination. A candidate
claiming such credit must submit appropriate documentation to verify
eligibility to receive these additional credits before the eligible list is established. No
additional credits will be granted after the eligible
list is established.
10.
Inquiries
may be made as to character and ability and all
statements made by candidates are subject to verification. Some employers may require the candidate to be fingerprinted and to pass a background investigation.
11.
Candidates
must be medically, physically and psychologically capable of performing the
duties of the job. Candidates who are appointed to positions in the Suffolk County service may
be required to pass qualifying medical and/or physical and/or psychological
evaluations.
12.
Residency
is not required for taking any examinations.
However, some jurisdictions, such as schools, libraries, etc., give
hiring preference to residents. Some
towns also require employees to establish residency within the township. For employment in a Suffolk County
Department, with only limited exceptions set forth in Suffolk County Law,
residency within Suffolk County is required within five years of employment
with the county. In any case in which residency preference is given, the
appointee(s) must meet a specific residency standard as defined in the Civil
Service Rules.
13.
Saturday
Sabbath Observers and handicapped persons:
If special arrangements for testing are required, indicate this on your
application.
14.
No
smoking is permitted in the building or on the grounds
of the examination site.
15.
If
you will be on active military duty with the armed forces of the United States
on the date of this test, please contact the Suffolk County Department of Human
Resources, Personnel and Civil Service before the last filing date appearing on
this announcement for alternate test date information.
16.
Multiple Examinations Scheduled for the
Same Day: If you have applied to take a
written test announced by either one or several local jurisdictions (county,
town, city) scheduled to be held on the same test date as this written test,
you must notify each of the local jurisdictions no later than two weeks before
the test date, so they can make arrangements for taking all tests at one test
site. All examinations for positions in State
government will be held at a State examination
center. If you have any questions,
please call the Suffolk County Department of Human Resources, Personnel and
Civil Service at (631) 853-5500.
17.
For
information regarding a weather-related cancellation of this examination,
please refer to our website at www.suffolkcountyny.gov/Departments/Civil-Service
click on the “Weather Related Exam Cancellations” link. Civil Service Announcements are shown at the bottom of that page. The following stations will broadcast notice
of cancellation:
WALK
PATCHOGUE 97.5 FM
WBAB
BABYLON 102.3 FM
WBLI BABYLON 106.1 FM
WLNG
SAG HARBOR 92.1 FM
WBZO FARMINGDALE 103.1 FM
WRCN
MEDFORD 103.9 FM
NEWS
12 LONG ISLAND TV CHANNEL 12 website:
www.news12.com
SUFFOLK COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, PERSONNEL AND CIVIL
SERVICE
SUFFOLK COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, PERSONNEL AND CIVIL SERVICE
725
VETERANS MEMORIAL HWY.
WILLIAM J
LINDSAY COUNTY COMPLEX, BLDG. #158 P.O. BOX 6100, HAUPPAUGE, NY 11788-0099 Phone:
853-5500
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MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR
DEPUTY SHERIFF I
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These standards are subject to change
during the life of the eligible list without notice to candidates.
Eyes:
Acuity Vision
- For visual acuity, the Snellen test is generally recognized
as standard. All candidates should have
vision better than or equal to 20/30 in each eye. If a candidate must use corrective lenses
(glasses or contacts) in order to satisfy the 20/30-vision standard, then such
candidate’s uncorrected vision should be no worse than 20/100 in each eye. Left and right lateral (horizontal) field of
vision shall be no less than 85 degrees in each direction to provide a
binocular horizontal field of vision of at least 170 degrees. Determination is to be made
without correction.
Eyes: Color Vision - Perception of
color is deemed acceptable if the candidate reads at least 9
or more of the first thirteen (13) plates of the 24-plate edition of the
Ishihara Test. If the candidate's color
perception is deemed unacceptable through the use of
said test and he/she believes the results to be incorrect, such an individual
may at his/her own expense take the Farnsworth-Munsell
100-Hue Test as prescribed by the Municipal Police Training Council and only at
facilities designated to perform this test. The use of any lens by a candidate
in order to meet the color perception standard is not acceptable.
Ears
and Hearing
- A hearing loss in either ear of more than 25 dcb in
the 500, 1000, and 2000 Hz range or a loss of more than 30 dcb
in the 3000 Hz range is considered disqualifying.
Abnormal testing results between 4000 and 6000 Hz will require further
evaluation. Hearing Aid Check --
Biological (HAC-B): Use of hearing aids to achieve such standards are permitted
as long as they are self-contained and fit within (auricular) or behind or over
(post-auricular) the ear. Candidates
with hearing aids shall, at their own expense, provide
evidence from a licensed audiologist, using functional gain or real ear
measurements, that such aid(s) meet the stipulated manufacturer’s
standards. Any ear condition requires a
case-by-case assessment to determine if it will affect the essential functions
of the position.
Nose,
Throat, Mouth
- Any condition or symptom will be assessed on a
case-by-case basis to determine the ability to perform the essential functions
of the position such as loss of sense of smell, speech loss/defects,
interference with proper fitting of a gas mask.
Peripheral
Vascular and Heart - Candidates will be assessed on a case-by-case basis
as to the control of any condition and the presence and severity of symptoms
and complications to determine if the candidate is able to perform the
essential functions of the position.
Resting blood pressure should be less than, or equal to, 140 mmHg systolic
and 90 mmHg diastolic on three successive readings.
Respiratory - The respiratory
system must be free of chronically disabling condition that would interfere
with the candidate's performance of required duties.
Gastrointestinal - Any malignancies,
disorders, and active symptoms will be assessed on a
case-by-case basis to determine ability to perform job functions.
Endocrine
& Metabolic
- Candidates who have a condition or disorder that may affect job performance will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Neurological
Health
- Candidates must be free of neurological disorders that may affect job
performance. Candidates with epilepsy or
seizure disorders must provide evidence of one-year seizure free history prior
to date of examination.
Musculoskeletal
Health
- Candidates must have no defect, deformities or disorders that may affect job
performance. Candidates are not
acceptable if there is an impairment of more than one finger on either hand. There should be no functional impairment of
the thumb or index finger on either hand.
Any disease or injury of back, joints or muscles as revealed by physical
examination that will interfere with the proper performance of duties will be considered potentially disqualifying.
Dermatological
Health
- Candidates must be free of skin condition that would lead to inability to
perform the duties of the position.
Mental
Health
- Candidates must be free of mental illness, serious emotional disturbances or
nervous disorders, alcoholism, drug dependence or abuse that would interfere
with the performance of their duties.
Candidates will be evaluated through a
psychological screening process.
Candidates may be screened for presence of
drugs of abuse.
General
Medical Statement
- Candidates must be free of any medical and/or nervous condition, which would
jeopardize safety and health of public and/or other employees. Candidates with communicable disease will be disqualified unless it becomes corrected or
controlled.
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PHYSICAL FITNESS SCREENING TEST
SIT
UP MUSCULAR ENDURANCE (Core
Body) - The score indicated below is the number of bent-leg sit-ups
performed in one (1) minute.
PUSH-UP MUSCULAR ENDURANCE (Upper
Body) – The score indicated below is the number of full body repetitions
that a candidate must complete without breaks.
1.5 MILE RUN CARDIOVASCULAR
CAPACITY - The score indicated below is calculated in minutes:seconds. The running surface may vary and the test
may be conducted on either an indoor or outdoor track.
TEST - MALE |
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AGE |
SIT-UP |
PUSH-UP |
1.5 MILE RUN |
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20 - 29 |
38 |
29 |
12:38 |
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30 - 39 |
35 |
24 |
12:58 |
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40 - 49 |
29 |
18 |
13:50 |
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50 - 59 |
24 |
13 |
15:06 |
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60+ |
19 |
10 |
16:46 |
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TEST – FEMALE |
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20 - 29 |
32 |
15 |
14:50 |
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30 - 39 |
25 |
11 |
15:43 |
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40 - 49 |
20 |
9 |
16:31 |
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50 - 59 |
14 |
0 |
18:18 |
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60+ |
6 |
0 |
20:16 |
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A
candidate must successfully complete each of the three elements of the test
battery at the minimum score as set forth above to be deemed to have
successfully completed the physical fitness screening
test.
11/2021