Kaden Kukes

• Weight and Size Enforcement: Operating stationary or portable scales to weigh commercial vehicles, ensuring they do not exceed legal axle or gross weight limits, and checking that load dimensions are within permitted ranges.
• Driver Compliance: Reviewing Commercial Driver's Licenses (CDLs), medical cards, and driver's hours-of-service (logbooks) to prevent operator fatigue and ensure qualifications are current.
• Safety and Equipment Inspections: Performing visual and electronic safety checks for hazards like faulty brakes, bad tires, and defective lighting or coupling devices.
• Permitting and Registration: Calculating and issuing temporary oversize/overweight permits and registrations, verifying tax statuses, and collecting related fees or citations.

• Conducted routine and random searches of housing units, common areas, and individuals to detect and confiscate contraband.
• Performed daily mandated headcounts and reported population status to ensure facility accountability and security.
• Monitored security systems, operated doors, and inspected physical structures for security breaches.
• Escorted and transported incarcerated individuals within the institution, to court appearances, or outside medical facilities under secure protocols.

Crisis Intervention & De-escalation

• Utilized verbal communication and de-escalation techniques to defuse volatile situations and resolve conflicts peacefully.
• Intervened in physical confrontations to protect staff, the public, and individuals in custody, utilizing approved physical control tactics when necessary.
• Enforced facility rules and regulations consistently and fairly while maintaining professional boundaries.

Administration & Compliance

• Prepared detailed, accurate incident reports, disciplinary documents, and daily operational logs.
• Monitored inmate property, maintained accurate inventory logs, and processed incoming mail for prohibited items.
• Operated in strict compliance with IDOC policies, state laws, and PREA (Prison Rape Elimination Act) guidelines.