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Recruitment and retention will be one of the most significant challenges facing law enforcement in the near future; in fact, it is already a challenge for many agencies. There are several reasons for ...
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Policing in the western world began with citizens serving in roles that deterred crime, not paid police forces. In about 900 AD, every 10 families created a tything, which was led by a tythingman who ...
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Women have been involved in police work for over 80 years in the United States, yet their participation in the profession with respect to duties, training and career advancement remained static for ne...
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All professions, even those with selective recruiting processes and rigorous hiring standards such as law enforcement, are required to deal with misconduct from a member of their field at some time. I...
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The last few years of high-profile crises involving law enforcement have demonstrated the need for resilient police officers. Officers who lack resiliency are more prone to react to situations in an u...
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For a number of years, the Winston-Salem Police Department, a North Carolina law enforcement agency of 560 sworn officers, easily filled its police academy with 30–40 recruits from diverse backgroun...
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The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) established a mentoring program for aspiring chief executive officers (CEOs) in July 2006 called the Mentoring Potential Chief Exe...
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The challenge of recruiting and hiring quality personnel has emerged as a critical problem for today’s law enforcement agencies.1 The roots of the current law enforcement officer recruitment movemen...
