TCOLE Basic Jailer Course
1. TCOLE [Texas Commission on Law Enforcement]: is a state regulatory
agency for local law enforcement and county corrections systems within
the state if Texas.
2. TCJS [Texas Commission on Jail Standards]: is the regulatory agency
for all county jails and privately operated municipal jails in the state.
3.The Occupations Code: is the statutory authority for the Commission to
establish rules that law enforcement agencies and jailers must follow.
4. Ethics: the discipline dealing with what is good and bad with moral
duty and obligation.
5. Texas Ethics Commission: was created in 1992 to administer and
enforce provisions relating to, among other things, the standards of
conduct of state officers and employees
6. Jail Climate: the prevailing behavioral atmosphere throughout the
jail facility; inmate playing games with staff
7. Stress: a body condition that may occur when a person faces a
threatening or unfamiliar situation
8. Communication: the ability to effectively and accurately transfer ideas
and infor- mation
,9. Attitude: is an organized and relatively unchanging combination of
personal knowledge and feelings about someone or something that
influences him/her to behave in a certain way in regard to that
person or thing
10.Race: generally refers to groups of people with common ancestry
and physical characteristics
11.Ethnicity: refers to shared culture and background
12.Ethnocentrism: is "the act of regarding one's culture as the
center of the universe, and hence as the basis for all comparisons
with other cultures"
13.Prejudice: is an adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand
or without knowledge of or examination of the facts
14.Culture: a way of thinking and acting based on tradition
15.Discrimination: acting on the basis if prejudice
16.Sexual Harassment: is deliberate or repeated sexual based behavior
that is not welcome, not asked for. and not returned or is unwelcome
sexual or gender based behavior
17.Booking: recording of certain information relating to the inmate
during the admissions process
,18.Detainer: a report from that documents an agency's authority to
retain a person in custody pending a fulfillment of a legal obligation. or
transfer to another jurisdiction
19.Commitment: an order signed by magistrate directing the sheriff to
receive and place in jail the person so committed
, 20.Warrant: a written order from magistrate, dies red to a peace
officer or some other person specifically named, commanding him to
take the body of a person accused of an offense, to be dealt with a
cording to law
21.Capias: is a wait issued by the court or clerk, and directed "to any
peace officer of the State of Texas", commanding him to arrest a person
accused of an offense and bring him before that court immediately, or
on a day or at a term stated in the writ
22.Writ of Attachment: is a writ issued by a clerk of a court under seal, or
by any magistrate, or by the foreman's of a grand jury, in any criminal
action or proceeding authorized by law, commanding some peace
officer to take the body of a witness and bring him before court,
magistrate, or grand jury kn a day named, or forthwith, to testify in
behalf of the State or of the defendant, as the case may be
23.Magistrate's Warrant: when a compelling is made to a magistrate that
any person within his jurisdiction is a fugitive from justice from another
state, he shall issue a warrant of arrest directing peace officer to
apprehend and bring the accused before him
24.Search: the examination of persons or property with the intention
1. TCOLE [Texas Commission on Law Enforcement]: is a state regulatory
agency for local law enforcement and county corrections systems within
the state if Texas.
2. TCJS [Texas Commission on Jail Standards]: is the regulatory agency
for all county jails and privately operated municipal jails in the state.
3.The Occupations Code: is the statutory authority for the Commission to
establish rules that law enforcement agencies and jailers must follow.
4. Ethics: the discipline dealing with what is good and bad with moral
duty and obligation.
5. Texas Ethics Commission: was created in 1992 to administer and
enforce provisions relating to, among other things, the standards of
conduct of state officers and employees
6. Jail Climate: the prevailing behavioral atmosphere throughout the
jail facility; inmate playing games with staff
7. Stress: a body condition that may occur when a person faces a
threatening or unfamiliar situation
8. Communication: the ability to effectively and accurately transfer ideas
and infor- mation
,9. Attitude: is an organized and relatively unchanging combination of
personal knowledge and feelings about someone or something that
influences him/her to behave in a certain way in regard to that
person or thing
10.Race: generally refers to groups of people with common ancestry
and physical characteristics
11.Ethnicity: refers to shared culture and background
12.Ethnocentrism: is "the act of regarding one's culture as the
center of the universe, and hence as the basis for all comparisons
with other cultures"
13.Prejudice: is an adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand
or without knowledge of or examination of the facts
14.Culture: a way of thinking and acting based on tradition
15.Discrimination: acting on the basis if prejudice
16.Sexual Harassment: is deliberate or repeated sexual based behavior
that is not welcome, not asked for. and not returned or is unwelcome
sexual or gender based behavior
17.Booking: recording of certain information relating to the inmate
during the admissions process
,18.Detainer: a report from that documents an agency's authority to
retain a person in custody pending a fulfillment of a legal obligation. or
transfer to another jurisdiction
19.Commitment: an order signed by magistrate directing the sheriff to
receive and place in jail the person so committed
, 20.Warrant: a written order from magistrate, dies red to a peace
officer or some other person specifically named, commanding him to
take the body of a person accused of an offense, to be dealt with a
cording to law
21.Capias: is a wait issued by the court or clerk, and directed "to any
peace officer of the State of Texas", commanding him to arrest a person
accused of an offense and bring him before that court immediately, or
on a day or at a term stated in the writ
22.Writ of Attachment: is a writ issued by a clerk of a court under seal, or
by any magistrate, or by the foreman's of a grand jury, in any criminal
action or proceeding authorized by law, commanding some peace
officer to take the body of a witness and bring him before court,
magistrate, or grand jury kn a day named, or forthwith, to testify in
behalf of the State or of the defendant, as the case may be
23.Magistrate's Warrant: when a compelling is made to a magistrate that
any person within his jurisdiction is a fugitive from justice from another
state, he shall issue a warrant of arrest directing peace officer to
apprehend and bring the accused before him
24.Search: the examination of persons or property with the intention
