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SHERIFF’S CHAPLAIN
KIND OF WORK: The Chaplain is the spiritual leader of the
Mobile County Sheriff’s Office and is ordained to serve in meeting the
spiritual, secular and personal counseling needs of the organization’s members
and their immediate families.
In this capacity, the Chaplain may be called upon to hold
religious services and memorials, perform ceremonies, provide counseling,
present educational offerings, and to give eulogies, invocations, benedictions,
and other public presentations as may be deemed appropriate. The Sheriff’s
Chaplain also covers the Mobile Field Office of the Federal Bureau of
Investigations (F.B.I.), performing the hereafter mentioned functions.
EXAMPLES OF WORK: Holds religious services; holds
memorial services, performs wedding ceremonies, makes death notifications to
next of kin of employees and families of victims; performs funerals for
Deputies, organizational personnel and their families; performs funerals for
the families of victims; offers prayers at special occasions (e.g., recruit
graduations, award ceremonies, banquets, retirement ceremonies, dedication of
buildings, etc.); visits the sick and injured members of the Sheriff’s Office
in home and hospital; counsels Sheriff’s Deputies and non-sworn members of the
Sheriff’s Office; counsels victim’s families concerning their physical,
financial and emotional needs because of their tragic incident and provides
temporary comfort and guidance until permanent counseling can be established;
assists at homicides, suicides, death by fire, death by drowning, and natural
deaths and other critical incidents when needed at the request of the deputies
on the scene; serves on Civic Boards, serves on review boards, awards panels
and other committees at the request of the Sheriff; teaches classes, seminars
and workshops on such topics as Stress Management, Ethics, Family Life and
Family Values, when requested by the Training Division. Networks with Churches,
Faith based organizations and Civic Organizations to get help for people in
need. The Sheriff's Chaplain serves as liaison and with other clergy in the
community also provides Critical Incident Stress Management debriefings when
necessary for the County of Mobile as well as other counties when approved by
the Sheriff.
To contact the Sheriff's Chaplain call 574-7729.
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