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About the Police Recruitment and Retention Clearinghouse
The Police Staffing Challenge
Recruitment and retention of officers is an increasing challenge for police agencies. Pending baby-boom generation retirements, military callups, local budget crises, competition for qualified applicants, and changing preferences for younger generations all exacerbate this challenge in a time for many urban communities of increasing violence and homeland security demands. Many police agencies report particular difficulty in recruiting minority and female officers.
Overwhelmed by day-to-day operations, police agencies typically do not have the time, resources, or expertise to find, collect, develop, or assess resources that could provide evidence for improving their recruitment and retention efforts. Quality improvement efforts tend to be reactive, unsystematic, and guided largely by local experiences and the judgment of senior officers as opposed to being proactively driven by empirical evidence.
Description and Purpose of Clearinghouse
With support from the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, the RAND Police Recruitment and Retention Clearinghouse is a ground-breaking website designed specifically for the law enforcement community. Its purpose is to improve both the efficiency and effectiveness of police decisionmaking and personnel planning by creating a "one-stop-shop" of resources related to police recruitment and retention.
The clearinghouse compiles in a searchable database, resources that can inform and guide efforts to build, maintain, and enhance police workforces. The resources are drawn primarily from research and media databases, listserves, and publications; web sites of research, government, and professional organizations; and referrals. All resources are annotated and sortable so that practitioners can immediately determine what information is most relevant for their needs.
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