1 option
Police personnel challenges after September 11 : anticipating expanded duties and a changing labor pool / Barbara Raymond [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Occasional paper (Rand Corporation)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police--Recruiting--United States.
- Police.
- Police administration--United States.
- Police administration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 34 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2005.
- Summary:
- Many police departments face ongoing challenges in recruiting and retaining police officers. Heightened concern about terrorist attacks has exacerbated this problem by increasing demands on local law enforcement agencies. To address this problem, the authors, drawing on RAND's extensive work in military personnel management, identify key lessons that could help develop a force management plan for police agencies focusing on future demand for police personnel and creative sources of supply. This analysis considers changing demands for police services; labor pool qualifications; and possible national and regional efforts to adapt military recruitment strategies for police agencies. The Long Beach Police Department, a metropolitan police department struggling with officer recruitment and retention in the face of increased security-related demands, serves as a case study example offering informative background data about these issues.
- Contents:
- Objective and approach
- Organization of the document
- Changing demands for police services
- Population pressures on traditional police services
- Community policing
- Homeland security
- Examples of how the Long Beach Police Department has adapted to new demands
- Department responses
- A shifting supply of qualified and interested candidates
- Growing need for police forces to "look" more like the communities they serve
- The changing nature of the recruiting pool
- Competition for personnel from other fields
- Efforts by Long Beach police to increase supply
- How the military experience might apply to police departments
- The military personnel planning process
- Adapting the process for a local police environment
- Labor supply lessons from the military experience
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- ""RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment."
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.