Services Division
The Services
Division provides a variety of support services to the
operational divisions of the department, as well as to the
public.
The division is commanded by a Police Lieutenant and four
supervisors and is responsible for planning, organizing
and directing the activities of both the Services and Corrections
(Jail) divisions.
The Police Services Specialists assigned to the Services
and Records units are the primary point of public contact
for most telephone and walk-in traffic, and are responsible
for all of the data-entry, records management, and statistical
reporting functions of the department. In addition, they
provide various customer services including issuance of
concealed pistol permits, performing criminal records checks,
fingerprinting for professional licensing, and preparing
reports for public disclosure.
A Supervisor and additional personnel staff the evidence/property
management unit in the Services Division. They process,
catalogue, store and dispose of several thousand articles
of evidence and found property collected annually by the
Police Department. Most of these items are eventually returned
to their owners, but many must be maintained indefinitely
for future retrieval and presentation in criminal prosecutions.
The City Jail began operation in 1996 following completion
of the City's new Police Station/Legal Center. For the preceding
twenty years, the City contracted with the County jail for
housing all of its offenders.
Under the general supervision of the Services Division
Lieutenant, and three Police Sergeants, personnel assigned
to this division are responsible for the care and custody
of offenders charged with and/or convicted of misdemeanor
crimes occurring within the City of Yakima. An additional
eleven Corrections Officers and one Police Services Specialist
II round out the staffing of this 70 bed, full-service jail
facility.
Corrections Officers are directly responsible for the
care and custody of incarcerated offenders. Their duties
include booking and classification, movement of prisoners
between jail and courts, transportation to and from alternate
holding facilities, supervision of laundry and meal preparation,
monitoring visitations, supervision of offender work crews,
accounting for prisoner property and funds, and tracking
prisoner time served.
The City of Yakima also contracts with the Yakima County
Department of Corrections, and with jails in the towns of
Sunnyside, Toppenish and Wapato for housing its average
daily offender population of approximately 120 prisoners.
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