Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Certification
Timeline
DARRELL GRIFFIN

DARRELL GRIFFIN

Blackshear,GA

Summary

Talented Truck Driver with good route planning, payment handling and customer service skills. Offering 18 years of experience and basic maintenance knowledge. Performance-driven and detail-oriented with dedication to my customers needs. Presently deliver mail from Jacksonville Fl to post offices that I am assigned to. After hearing complaints from post masters not getting the supplies they needed from Jacksonville I found a way to get their supplies to them the next day.

20 years in corrections, 19 years in special operations

monitoring high-volume correctional facilities to maintain safety and order. Extensive experience in inmate restraints and searches. Proven success enforcing facility policies and reducing inmate altercations.

I have served as Tactical squad commander in Valdosta state prison supervising 11 members. (Which is like a SWAT team for prisons). When I moved to Waycross I served as commander of CERT Team supervising 8 members. (Which is like the police of the prison we investigated inmates and officers to stop in introduction of contraband into the prison)

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Truck Driver

Hickman Transport
02.2015 - Current
  • Obtained necessary permits and licenses to operate various commercial vehicles legally.
  • Inspected truck for defects and safe operating condition before, during and after trips.
  • Maintained scheduled timed stops and deliveries six days a week.
  • Operated with safety and skill to avoid accidents and delays.

Unemployed

Unemployed
11.2014 - 02.2015

Driver

Wall Timber Products
06.2014 - 11.2014
  • Wall timber products Jesup Ga
  • Conduct an inspection on the truck, drive to work site get loaded with logs take them to proper location.

Unemployed

Unemployed
03.2014 - 06.2014

Correctional Officer

Ware State Prison
11.2009 - 03.2014

As a member of CERT 9-man special operations team I conducted unscheduled searches of the facility, inmates, and Officers property. Conduct car searches with K-9 officers on staff and visitors' vehicles to prevent the introduction of contraband. Maintain order among inmates with assaultive behavior problems and disruptive gang activity. Investigate and seek intelligence for leads pertaining to Officers dealing with inmates and contraband in or entering in the facility and taking the appropriate action to remove contraband or staff that brought the contraband in. Transfer disciplinary problem inmates throughout the state. In the absence of the supervisor took on all duties and responsibilities of CERT Commander.

Education

High school diploma -

Ware high school
1984

Skills

  • Tactical Squad Commander
  • CERT Commander – Correctional Emergency Response Team
  • Tactical Hostage Rescue Commander
  • Defensive Tactics Instructor
  • Drill Instructor
  • Senior Drill Instructor
  • Physical Training Coordinator
  • Tactical squad basic training
  • Boot camp basic training
  • Judgmental use of deadly force
  • Transitional glock
  • Dynamic tactical entry
  • Seal close quarter combat
  • Pressure point control
  • Managing civil action Defense against edge weapons
  • Tactical crowd control
  • Defensive tactics Tactical squad leadership
  • G-8 summit training phase 1&2
  • G-8 Leadership
  • Training Hostage rescue
  • G-8 tactical team leader training
  • Tactical shot gun
  • Tactical pistol
  • G-8 public safety command
  • Non-lethal weapons Chemical munitions
  • G-8 legal training
  • Chemical weapons CS gas
  • Basic mobile field force
  • Distraction devices
  • Specialty impact munitions
  • Pepper spray Pepper ball
  • Band-it react
  • Taser gun

Accomplishments


  • While working at Ware State Prison I joined the CERT (Correctional Emergency Response Team) After 9 months of service the Warden moved me to Commander for 2 months while he searched for another Lieutenant to replace the Lieutenant that was advancing to a federal job.
  • I then served as Assistant Commander from 2010-2012 and back to Commander for 10 months from 2013-2014, supervising 8 members.
  • 2013 Ware CERT competed against 34 CERT teams and won the Commissioners Challenge Competition.
  • While working in Valdosta State Prison for 15 years I was on Tactical Squad for 14 years, Commander for 3 years and Assistant Commander for 7 years
  • Established a faster call out procedure for the Tactical Squad at Valdosta.
  • Got the policy change state wide for new officers trying out for Tactical Squad, they used to have to wait a year before they could try out I got it changed to after they are assigned to a shift
  • 99% of the time for 14 years had the most conditioned Squad in the state proven by physical training test scores given at Forsyth twice a year. This competition for the highest PT scores developed into the annual Tactical Squad and CERT Commissioners Challenge.
  • As a Senior Drill Instructor I assisted in training officers from across the state in basic boot camp training for ITP and new tactical Squad members in Forsyth Ga.
  • While working in Valdosta in ITP (Intensive Therapeutic Program) – Boot camp program for disciplinary problem inmates. I made a 100-page rules and regulations hand book for all inmates entering into the program. This handbook was used throughout the state at other prisons to open their ITP programs.


Certification

Tactical Squad Commander

CERT Commander – Correctional Emergency Response Team

Tactical Hostage Rescue Commander

Defensive Tactics Instructor

Drill Instructor

Senior Drill Instructor

Physical Training Coordinator

Timeline

Truck Driver - Hickman Transport
02.2015 - Current
Unemployed - Unemployed
11.2014 - 02.2015
Driver - Wall Timber Products
06.2014 - 11.2014
Unemployed - Unemployed
03.2014 - 06.2014
Correctional Officer - Ware State Prison
11.2009 - 03.2014
Ware high school - High school diploma,

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