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In a study comparing highly rated police officers to lower-level performers, high performers were found to be more gregarious, display a more positive outlook on life, exhibit greater interpersonal wa...
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Are street smarts better than book smarts? The question comes up often in policing and elsewhere. Television's Apprentice, featuring billionaire Donald Trump, recently pitted a street-smart team of su...
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Police departments across the country are reporting increased rates of staff turnover. Many agencies are spending enormous amounts of resources on recruiting, selecting, and training new employees. At...
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Members of the 102 million-strong millennial generation, those born between 1982 and 2002, have yet to make their full impact on the law enforcement workplace, but they will be the majority of new pol...
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The chief of a smaller police department is expected to be knowledgeable about every challenge the police department faces. If the chief cannot confront the issue based on his or her knowledge, then t...
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To the Fairfax County Police Department's Traffic Division it was clear: a comprehensive impaired driver enforcement program had to include sobriety checkpoints. It was also clear that conducting sobr...
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For decades recruiting personnel into law enforcement was not as much of a challenge. Departments used to experience hundreds of quality applicants competing for a limited number of positions. Today, ...
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The staff inspection process is an administrative system that should be used by law enforcement agencies to conduct internal inspections and audits to ensure that agency units and personnel are in com...
