Desk Sergeant

Desk Sergeant

Salary

$76,293.95 Annually

Location

99 Water Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA

Job Type

Full-time

Job Number

02057

Department

Corrections

Opening Date

07/17/2026

Closing Date

7/31/2026 11:59 PM Eastern

• Description
• Benefits

Description

This is highly responsible and technical work coordinating functions related to criminal history maintenance, pending criminal actions, and all operations of inmate records by maintaining a computerized and hard-copy management information system.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Maintain inmate records for the county's correctional facility; maintain computerized and hard-copy inmate records and files.
• Maintain a certification as a Certified Terminal Operator for the Luzerne County Correctional Facility. Ensures the proper function and dissemination of Criminal History Information provided through the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and Commonwealth Law Enforcement Assistance Network (CLEAN)
• Maintains a comprehensive, current knowledge and awareness of applicable laws/regulations; maintains an awareness of new trends and advances in the profession; reads professional literature; attends workshops and training sessions as appropriate.
• Interpret court commitments and court orders in accordance with state statutes and requests of the sentencing judge
• Interact via telephone with the public, courts, law enforcement in a professional and courteous manner
• Coordinates all inmate legal proceedings and transfers to/from other jurisdictions with local, county, state, and federal authorities
• Interact with Court of Common Pleas Judges and District Justice Offices to ensure the appropriate handling of commitment and release paperwork,
• Compute all sentences ensuring they are accurately entered into the "Offender Management System" calculating credits toward a sentence and establishing minimum and maximum release dates for county and state parole agencies
• Ensure that detainers, other sentences, bail, release dates, and other pertinent data are properly entered or satisfied in inmate records as required, to discharge inmates on appropriate dates and if applicable, to appropriate agencies
• Ensure that only authorized persons have access to inmate records and the CLEAN terminal
• Ensure that confidential information is not released to the public or media
• Resolve all matters of custody, length of sentence, holding charges, detainers, extraditions or transfers to other institutions
• Prepare transfer papers for inmates discharged or transferred to other jurisdictions
• Coordinate the collection of DNA samples of convicted felons, ensuring the collection procedure is followed and submitted in a timely and efficient manner and all current legislation is enforced
• Complete sex offenders registration when applicable, ensuring all current legislation is enforced
• Maintain accurate statistics of daily commitments, releases, transfers and inmate statuses
• Coordinate with security, treatment and support supervisors to ensure that all pertinent inmate information is available to each department
• Maintain constant and accurate total inmate counts coinciding with new inmates and discharges of all confined inmates as well as inmates on the out-count
• Serve as facility liaison with local, state and federal court agencies
• Schedule permanent discharges or ensuring that only authorized persons have access to do so
• Report to the District Attorney and sentencing Judge any person who fails to report for their sentence
• Prepares interstate agreement on detainers' paperwork

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• The principles, practices and procedures of records management as they pertain to the maintenance of criminal records
• Principles and procedures of computerized management information systems
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multitask
• Computer literacy in Word, Excel, Crystal Reports, Offender Management System, Common Pleas Court Management System, On-Base, PA Adult Probation System,
• Crimes codes, court procedures, and criminal justice documents which relate to the commitment, release, extradition, sentence or transfer of inmates.
• PA Crimes Code
• Purdon's title 61, Penal & Correctional Institutions
• Purdon's Title 42, Judiciary and Judicial Procedures
• PA Act 84,
• PA rules of Court for Criminal Procedures

Minimum Qualifications

• A high school diploma or G.E.D.
• Successfully completed training at the state sponsored officer cadet school or equivalent accredited training.
• First aid and firearms training certifications
• Not sustained any major violation for a period of three (3) years prior to the expiration date of the posting announcing the positionss availability, and none since posting.
• Four (4) years continuous service as a correctional officer at LCCF with at least one thousand (1,000) days of compensable status.

LUZERNE COUNTY IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY & AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER

I. Medical Insurance

The coverage begins for the employee the on the first of the month following the first full 30 days of full-time employment for employees and their eligible dependents. Cost to the employee to participate in the plan varies by the coverage selection and the number of dependents; and may be subject to collective bargaining agreement. The employee may also elect to opt out of the Countys medical insurance if proof of coverage is provided. Under this arrangement, the employee is provided with an annual opt out payment.

II. Vision and Prescription

The coverage begins for the employee on the first of the month following the first full 30 days of full-time employment for employees and their eligible dependents. Contributions may vary, subject to collective bargaining agreement.

III. Dental Coverage

The coverage begins for the employee on the first of the month following the first full 30 days of full-time employment for employees and their eligible dependents. Contributions may vary, subject to collective bargaining agreement.

IV. Life Insurance

A $50,000 life insurance policy is afforded to full-time employees, unless specified differently in a collective bargaining agreement. It remains in effect as long as the employee is actively employed and terminates upon resignation or retirement.

V. Retirement

All full-time employees and part-time employees working more than 1,000 hours per year qualify for Luzerne County retirement benefits, in which employees must contribute 5% of their earnings, and may choose to add to an additional voluntary contribution, not to exceed an additional 10%.

Employer Luzerne County

Address Penn Place Building, Suite 225

20 N. Pennsylvania Avenue

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 18702

Phone 570-826-8801

Website http://www.luzernecounty.org