Policy Text
KERN COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE
SUBSTATION HOLDING FACILITY
POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
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TITLE: COURT HOLDING FACILITY STAFFING
NO: A-103
EFFECTIVE DATE: 03/22/2004
REVISED: 08/06/2020
APPROVED BY: Commander Timothy Posey
REVIEWED: 01/15/2021
REFERENCE: Title 15, Article 3, Section 1027
POLICY:
A sufficient number of personnel shall be employed in each local detention facility
to permit intermittent, direct, and visual supervision of all inmates.
DIRECTIVE
At least one (1) deputy will be on duty in the Substation at all times once a
prisoner is incarcerated in the Kern County Sheriff’s Office Substation Holding
Facility.
Whenever one or more female prisoners are held in custody in the holding area,
there shall be at least one female employee available and accessible to such
female prisoner. When a female employee is not available and accessible, the
female prisoner shall be transported forthwith to the Central Receiving Facility.
At no time where there is a