The Career Development Unit promotes and encourages growth, development, and professionalism to increase an employee’s individual potential success within the agency. This unit facilitates the promotional process for Lieutenants, Sergeants, Corporals, Communications and career pathing candidates. This unit also develops all testing and assessments for the promotional process. The Career Development Unit creates and modifies all agency job descriptions and makes sure they are reviewed and up to date. This unit also facilitates all agency structural interviews including creating interview questions to assist in seeking and retaining talent throughout the agency. Career Development provides career counseling and assists all agency employees with resume building, interviewing techniques and employee exit interviews.

The Personnel Services handles every aspect of an employee’s personnel file, including personal information, work assignment and matters related to pay.  In addition, they are responsible for maintaining and tracking all employee transfers, pay increases, file maintenance, position and keeping the employee informed of all personnel issues. Personnel Services is responsible for all identifications cards for all agency employees and volunteers. This unit is responsible of taking all photos for all employees even including our K9 deputies. The Personnel Services Unit oversees the daily operations of Off-Duty Services, which liaisons with off-duty employers and agency employees.  Off-Duty Services reconciles the equipment usage reimbursement accounts and reviews data reports to confirm compliance with agency policy.

In 2016 the Human Resources Information System Unit (HRIS) was added to the Human Resources Division. The HRIS unit handles every phase of proposed pay increases costing, proposals, and the actual implementation of the increases.  This is done for all groups in the agency to include the bargaining unit, sworn management, civilians and school crossing guards.  HRIS conducts extensive internal and external pay studies to ensure the agency employees are receiving competitive pay. This unit also assists our Career Development Unit in writing agency job descriptions to determine the appropriate pay for each job description. HRIS is responsible to have an up to date record of all agency employees sworn, civilian, volunteers and retired deputies. This unit also needs to know where all positions are located and who currently resides at those positions.