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Author Wilson, Jeremy M., 1974-

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

Imprint Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2010.

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 113 pages) : illustrations (some color)
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Series Rand Corporation monograph series
Rand Corporation monograph series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-113).
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.
Summary 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 and officer career aspirations. Police agencies often have little ability to assess their organization and environment, and they receive little guidance on how best to build and maintain their workforces. In this monograph, the authors seek to fill the gap of information available to police agencies through a survey on their recruitment and retention practices. The survey, sent to every U.S. police agency with at least 300 sworn officers, sought to document such characteristics as authorized and actual strength by rank, officer work and qualifications, compensation, and recruiting efforts. The authors used these data to provide an overview of current recruitment and retention practices, to describe how they affected police recruitment and personnel profiles, and to identify future research needs. Findings include that police compensation, city size, and crime rates had statistically significant effects on police recruiting. Advertising and recruiting incentives had little effect on the number of recruits. Cohort sizes and structures highlighted current and future personnel management challenges. To facilitate comparative and longitudinal analyses of police staffing, the authors recommend ongoing national data collection.
Note Print version record.
Subject Police -- Recruiting -- United States.
Police -- United States -- Personnel management.
Policiers -- Recrutement -- États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Law Enforcement.
Police -- Personnel management
Police -- Recruiting
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Added Author Rostker, Bernard.
Fan, Cha-Chi.
Rand Center on Quality Policing.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
Other Form: Print version: Wilson, Jeremy M., 1974- Recruiting and retaining America's finest. Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2010 9780833050687 (DLC) 2010037247 (OCoLC)660088197
ISBN 9780833051141 (electronic bk.)
0833051148 (electronic bk.)
9780833050687
0833050680
Report No. RAND/MG-960-NIJ
Standard No. AU@ 000048805558
AU@ 000051339370
DEBBG BV043128143
DEBBG BV044151518
DEBSZ 396966020
DEBSZ 421634073
GBVCP 1008655333
HEBIS 278031641
NZ1 13934982
AU@ 000069750931

 
    
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