{"id":697,"date":"2019-08-21T07:34:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T13:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/?page_id=697"},"modified":"2025-02-11T15:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T21:23:23","slug":"detention-officer-requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/detention-officer-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Detention Service Officer Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<section  class='av_textblock_section av-lsyrojl6-bf60bc151d77a4e95620c952368de41f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div class=\"rxbodyfield\">\n<p>The hiring of Detention Service Officers (DSOs) occurs on an ongoing basis. DSOs are hired to serve as jailers licensed by the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement (TCOLE). All DSO applicants must successfully pass the following in order to be hired:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Computerized Criminal History<\/li>\n<li>Background Investigation<\/li>\n<li>Polygraph<\/li>\n<li>Psychological Evaluation<\/li>\n<li>Physical Examination<\/li>\n<li>Drug Screening<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fa-etvc-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com\/hcmUI\/CandidateExperience\/en\/sites\/CX_1001\/requisitions?lastSelectedFacet=AttributeChar3&amp;mode=location&amp;selectedFlexFieldsFacets=%22AttributeChar3%7CSheriff%27s%22\"><strong><span class=\"redbold\">Applications can be made via this website <\/span><\/strong><strong><span class=\"redbold\"><u>here.<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/a> Dallas County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Resource Development Division Personnel Section Dallas County Records Building 500 Elm Street, Suite\u00a0 5100,\u00a0 Dallas, TX 75202.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the application process, qualifications, and the benefits we offer, please contact our Personnel Section directly at <a href=\"mailto:recruiting@dallascounty.org\">recruiting@dallascounty.org<\/a> or 214-741-1094.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-697","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4322,"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/697\/revisions\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/sheriff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}