Recruiting and retaining America's finest : evidence-based lessons for police workforce planning

Recruiting and retaining America's finest : evidence-based lessons for police workforce planning / Jeremy M. Wilson, Bernard D. Rostker, Cha-Chi Fan.

Personnel management is a critical but oft neglected function of police organizations. While much attention is given to recruiting and retention, these are only tools for accomplishing a larger goal: achieving and maintaining the profile of officers by experience and rank that satisfies agency needs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, Jeremy M., 1974-
Corporate Author: Rand Center on Quality Policing
Other Authors: Rostker, Bernard, Fan, Cha-Chi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2010.
Series:Rand Corporation monograph series.
Subjects:
Police > Recruiting > United States.
Police > United States > Personnel management.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Law Enforcement.
Police > Personnel management
Police > Recruiting
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The personnel situation
  • Factors affecting the supply of police recruits
  • Career management
  • Evidence-based lessons for personnel planning
  • Appendix A: Police recruitment and retention survey procedures
  • Appendix B: Survey instrument.

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