STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
HUMAN RESOURCES
CLASSIFICATION: INTERNAL AFFAIRS INVESTIGATOR
Class Code: 5299-19
Date Established: 08-13-99
Occupational Code: 3-2-5
Date of Last Revision: 12-28-01
BASIC PURPOSE: To conduct, investigate and supervise
activities related to internal investigation affairs in order to maintain
institutional security and public safety.
CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Maintains inmate
intelligence files, including input, update and retrieval of files and
information.
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Conducts prison
investigations, including acting as a liaison for police, Probation Parole
Officers and other correctional institutions.
·
Maintains a list of
identified, high risk individuals, including updating it monthly.
·
Ensures that there is
maintenance of mail intelligence/investigative intakes by delegating these
tasks to appropriate staff.
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Ensures that
intelligence logs are maintained on a daily basis and disseminated to all
additional, pertinent files.
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DISTINGUISHING FACTORS:
Skill: Requires skill in recommending routine
changes in standardized operating procedures OR in retrieving, compiling, and
reporting data according to established procedures OR in operating complex
machines.
Knowledge: Requires logical or scientific
understanding to analyze problems of a specialized or professional nature in a
particular field.
Impact: Requires responsibility for
contributing to immediate, ongoing agency objectives by facilitating the direct
provision of services to the public or other state agencies. Errors at this level result in
inaccurate reports or invalid test results and require a significant investment
of time and resources to detect.
Supervision: Requires direct supervision of other
employees doing related or similar work, including scheduling work,
recommending leave, reviewing work for accuracy, performance appraisal, or
interviewing applicants for position vacancies.
Working Conditions: Requires performing regular job
functions in an adverse working environment containing a combination of
disagreeable elements which impact significantly upon the employee's capacity
for completing work assignments.
This level includes work-related accidents or assault.
Physical Demands: Requires medium work, including
continuous strenuous activities such as frequent reaching, bending, or lifting
as well as performing work activities which require fine manual dexterity or
coordination in operating machines or equipment.
Communication: Requires summarizing data, preparing
reports, and making recommendations based on findings which contribute to
solving problems and achieving work objectives. This level also requires presenting information for use by
administrative-level managers in making decisions.
Complexity: Requires a combination of job functions
to establish facts, to draw daily operational conclusions, or to solve
practical problems. This level
also requires providing a variety of alternative solutions where only limited
standardization exists.
Independent Action: Requires a range of choice in applying
a number of technical or administrative policies under general direction and
making routine decisions or in recommending modifications in work procedures
for approval by supervisor.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education: Bachelor’s degree from a recognized
college or university with major study in criminal justice, sociology,
psychology, criminology or other related field.
Experience: Two year’s experience in law
enforcement, including investigative activities with knowledge of investigative
operations, practices and techniques, as well as experience in conducting,
evaluating, analyzing and investigating allegations of wrongdoing and preparing
the related reports. Each year of
approved work experience may be substituted for one year of required formal
education.
License/Certification: Certification for Police
Officer/Corrections Officer must be obtained through Police Standards and
Training Council during probationary period.
RECOMMENDED WORK TRAITS:
DISCLAIMER STATEMENT: This class specification is descriptive
of general duties and is not intended to list every specific function of this
class title.
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