Any supervisor should excel at:

• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment.
• Detecting or assessing problems whether real or potential.
• Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

• Supervising law enforcement staff, such as jail staff, officers, and deputy sheriffs.
• Driving vehicles or patrol specific areas for detecting law violators, issuing citations, and making arrests.
• Investigating illegal or suspicious activities.
• Executing arrest warrants, locating and taking persons into custody.
• Recording daily activities and submitting logs and other related reports and paperwork to appropriate authorities.
• Patrolling and guarding courthouses, grand jury rooms, or assigned areas for providing security, enforcing laws, maintaining order, and arrest violators.
• Notifying patrol units for taking violators into custody or for providing needed assistance or medical aid.
• Placing people in protective custody.
• Taking controlling of accident scenes for maintaining traffic flow, to assisting accident victims, and for investigating causes.
• Serving statements of claims, subpoenas, summonses, jury summonses, orders to paying alimony, and other court orders.
• Questioning individuals entering secured areas for determining their business, directing and rerouting individuals as necessary.