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Recruiting

Recruiting — The Police Recruiting topic provides resources and tips for those charged with recruiting the department's next generation of great cops. From improving existing hiring strategies to using new technologies and tools such as Facebook and social networking, this section features a wide range of information.

FULL LIST OF Recruiting Topics

Some Ohio academies cool to proposed uniform police standards - If these uniform standards are adopted, applicants will have to meet a number of requirements before they are admitted
Pulse of Policing: The seismic challenges facing today's PDs (and how to overcome them) - Law enforcement leaders are now faced with seemingly impossible tasks, and yet they are accomplishing those things despite difficult conditions
Building a diverse police force: Lessons from the San Francisco PD - SFPD works with kids as a way of achieving the long-term objective of recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce reflective of the city’s population
Texas officials to offer incentives for officers who move to Austin - Despite being among the highest-paid in the nation, only 27 percent of sworn officers live inside the city limits
Judge: 2008 Boston cop exam was discriminating - A police spokesman says the department is reviewing the decision
What a Texas department is doing to recruit more women - Of the 1,755 sworn police officers in the department, only 177 are women
Calif. council focuses on police exam to broaden diversity - The Public Safety Committee chairwoman wants to make the department 'reflective of the community they serve'
Philly PD sees shrinking diversity numbers - Amid efforts to recruit in a multiracial city, the police department is still slowly fading to white
DOJ review of San Diego police urges more supervision - The audit offers 40 recommendations to improve recruiting, hiring, training and supervision aimed at more quickly identifying problem officers
6-year-old stars in Ohio recruitment video - 6-year-old Noah Bundy is on the case for the Sidney Police Department in Ohio.
Questionable reform: New Orleans PD axes education requirement - Eliminating education from the equation is not the path to successful police reform
Colo. PD works toward 50 percent female force - Department will begin accepting applications for its January 2015 police academy, and it's pushing for a larger percentage of women and minority applicants
Texas council OKs incentive pay for police cadets - Houston is losing ground in a competition to find qualified recruits, due to lower pay than what is offered by other major cities and significant changes in retirement benefits
Mich. state police recruiting event draws crowd - Nearly 80 hopefuls will attend the recruiting even being held in Detroit
Tulsa police: stale pay hurting recruitment - Applicant pool has dropped 45% over last 3 years; chief says stagnant pay progression and layoffs are damaging
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