If you are looking for a job with plenty of daily challenges, you may want to work in Communications. You will be responsible for taking all of the Sheriff Office calls in Fremont County, Lander Police calls, Shoshoni Police calls, all ambulance and fire calls for the county and 911 calls for Fremont County. You will be assigning "Calls for Service" to officers as well as ambulances and fire departments in the county. This is a great job for those that can handle several conversations at the same time and handle the fast and exciting pace of Communications. You will be receiving and assigning a wide variety of calls including family disputes, auto accidents, search and rescues, traffic complaints, drunk drivers, civil disputes and many others. You will be in constant communications with law enforcement and emergency services personnel throughout the county, including Lander, Riverton Dubois, Jeffery City, Pavillion, Kinnear, Hudson, Shoshoni, Lysite, Arapahoe, Fort Washakie and all of the rural area’s in the county. You will work daily with the Wyoming Highway Patrol, Game and Fish, Wind River Police Department, Division of Criminal Investigation, F.B.I., Lander, Riverton and Shoshoni Police Departments, Wyoming Brand Inspectors, Fremont County Roads Departments, Fremont County Attorney’s Office and many others. If it is a challenging, fast paced job that you want, this is the job for you.

Detention Center

If you are looking for a more physically involved job, the Detention Center may be the job for you. You will be handling all of the prisoners for Fremont County. This includes all of the arrests that the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, Lander Police Department, Riverton Police Department, Shoshoni Police Department, Wyoming Highway Patrol and other law enforcement personnel make in Fremont County. You will be responsible for every prisoner from the time that they enter the salley port (Garage) into Booking, Finger Printing, Housing, Court Room Appearances, Medical Transports and all daily operations such as Pod and Cell shakedowns, Inmate Meals and Recreation time, handling inmate disputes and unruly inmates. You will handle all disciplinary issues with inmates and see that all of the staff and inmates are safe at all times. This job will require you to be in good physical shape for handling fights and disputes that happen . You will be required to pass a physical fitness test in order to be hired and you will be required to go to the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy for six weeks in the first year to become fully certified. All of your training and Academy will be paid by the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office. There is a multitude of jobs within the Detention Facility including Booking Officers, Pod Officers, Master and Juvenile Control Room Officers, Transport Officers, Cooks, Court Room Security Officers, FTO (Field Training Officers) and many other positions. This job is for the physical type person that enjoys the flexibility of working different job descriptions and shift work.

Patrol

If you are interested in being a Patrol Deputy, There are a few more hurdles to overcome. In most cases, The Fremont County Sheriff’s Office promotes staff from Detentions and Communications to Patrol. On a yearly basis, a date is picked and all the staff is offered to test for Patrol positions that may come open in the course of that year. The test is a series of questions including scenario based questions that are asked by a panel of supervisors. The high scores will go on a list and any openings in that year will be offered to the highest score first. Any employee is eligible, but must be in good physical condition and has to be able to pass a physical fitness test at the time of an opening. Once promoted to a Patrol position, the deputy will enter into an intensive 14 week Field Training Program and then 12 weeks at the Wyoming Law Enforcement Academy for certification. The new deputy will not work without immediate supervision until he/she has meet all of the training requirements. The duties and responsibilities of a Patrol Deputy are many. They vary from serving criminal and civil papers, handling traffic accidents and complaints, any breech of state statutes and a multitude of public relations oriented issues. Almost all of the Patrol Deputies started in Communications or Detentions and dedicated several years to those duties before being promoted as a Patrol Deputy.