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

  • Must be current on in-house training

Deputy II

Patrol

  • Drug ID and Symptomology

  • Spanish for Law Enforcement

  • Crime Scene Photography

  • Supervisory Institute or FBI Leadership

  • Prepare a Search Warrant

  • Prepare an Arrest Warrant

  • 10 hours Community Involvement

  • 12 hours with a Detentions Deputy II

Detentions

  • Basic Detentions Academy

  • Spanish for Corrections

  • Supervisory Institute

  • Prepare and present an advanced community project

  • 10 hours Community Involvement

  • 12 hours with a Patrol Deputy

Corporal

Patrol

  • ICS 300

  • Train the Trainer

  • Self Improvement Training

  • LPO (3 week course)

  • Instruct In-House

  • Community Problem Presentation

  • 10 hours Community Involvement

  • 12 hours with Detentions Corporal

  • 48 hours as the acting Patrol Corporal

Detentions

  • ICS 300

  • Train the Trainer

  • Self Improvement Training

  • AJA/AELE Legal Issues

  • LPO (3 week course)

  • Instruct In-House

  • 10 hours Community Involvement

  • 12 hours with a Patrol Corporal

  • 48 hours as the acting Detentions Corporal

Sergeant

Patrol

  • ICS 400

  • FBI LEEDA

  • Identify a deficient area within the agency and develop a solution

  • 48 hours as a Patrol Sergeant

  • 12 hours with a Detentions Sergeant

Detentions

  • ICS 400

  • FBI LEEDA

  • Identify a deficient area within the agency and develop a solution

  • 48 hours as a Detentions Sergeant

  • 12 hours with a Patrol Sergeant

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