Welcome to the Police Recruitment and Retention Clearinghouse
Welcome to the RAND Police Recruitment and Retention Clearinghouse. Part of the RAND Center on Quality Policing, the clearinghouse is a web-based resource that serves as a "one-stop-shop" for information about recruitment and retention specifically designed for the law enforcement community. Its purpose is to promote evidence-based personnel planning by making information on police staffing readily available for police decisionmakers in an easy to use, searchable form.
Featured Resources
Recruiting and Retaining a Diverse, High Quality Police Force
Recruitment and retention of officers is an increasing challenge for police agencies, and many urban police agencies report particular difficulty in recruiting minority and female officers. The RAND Center on Quality Policing convened a national summit in June 2008. Speakers discussed police workforce issues, strategies, lessons that could be learned from other organizations, and in-depth analyses of police recruiting and retention in selected cities.
Conference Proceedings
Read the Briefings at www.cops.usdoj.gov
Helping the Los Angeles Police Department Recruit Efficiently
To help the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) achieve its recruiting and diversity goals, RAND researchers offered ways to improve productivity and efficiency in the recruiting process. They identified potential untapped recruiting markets, provided a model of viable candidates to target recruitment and prioritize applicants while still reaching diversity hiring goals, and recommended ways to improve background-investigation processes.
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Office of Community Oriented Policing Services—Hiring and Retention Resources
The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) website promotes community policing nationwide. COPS provides many resources, including funding, knowledge resource products, and training. This COPS resource is a listing of hiring and retention resources available on the web.
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COPS Hiring Recovery Program (CHRP)
The Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) is pleased to announce the availability of funding under the COPS Hiring Recovery Program (CHRP). The COPS Office will receive the funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to address the personnel needs of state, local, and tribal law enforcement. Application materials are scheduled to be available before the end of March.
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Interview with Captain Josh Ederheimer of the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C.
Captain Ederheimer talks about his department's aggressive hiring, reaching out to technologically savvy recruits, and forming a tighter working relationship between policing researchers and practitioners.
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