Prison officer
Code 5413.2
Prison officers supervise inmates in a correctional facility and ensure the security and peace-keeping in the facility. They perform checks and searches to ensure compliance to regulations, monitor visitations and the activities of inmates as well as participate in programs of rehabilitation, and ensure records maintenance.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- law enforcement
- correctional procedures
- illegal substances
- legal use-of-force
Skills and competences
- comply with the principles of self-defence
- escort defendants
- ensure compliance with types of weapons
- identify security threats
- patrol areas
- undertake inspections
- restrain individuals
- see to the detainees' well-being
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences