Police Department Recruitment

As a police leader, what would you focus on as you put together a recruitment plan for the future of your police agency (Texas Department of Public Safety)? What would you do away with? Why? Come up with three or four ideas that you would build a recruitment plan around. Offer evidence, data, or even articulate a theory to explain the benefit of part of your plan.

1. Recruitment is one of the most critical considerations for police agencies of the future: who will staff them?
a. Read the following articles:
o https://www.policechiefmagazine.org/police-officer-recruitment/?ref=f184c4866adc92c58f00570e280c8ba4
o https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/police-departments-women-officers/497963/
o https://www.policechiefmagazine.org/a-crisis-facing-law-enforcement-recruiting-in-the-21st-century/?ref=112b1ab5e98445131307ffa57eb715e3
o https://www.policechiefmagazine.org/millennials-and-improving-recruitment/

b. Consider the following throughout your reading:
o What do you think has changed in police recruiting?
o What are the current concerns about police recruitment both locally and nationally?
o What are some of the political/social/education issues that might affect recruitment?
o What effect will the decriminalization of marijuana in some areas have on recruitment?
– How might that affect policing?
o Based on what we’ve discussed in Modules 1, 2 and 3, what qualities should police recruiters look for?
o What type of recruitment should departments focus on to best improve police-
community relations in the future?
o What type of training should police departments offer to prepare new recruits for the
future of policing?

c. As a police leader, what would you focus on as you put together a recruitment plan for the future of your police agency (Texas Department of Public Safety)? What would you do away with? Why? Come up with three or four ideas that you would build a recruitment plan around. Offer evidence, data, or even articulate a theory to explain the benefit of part of your plan.