The law enforcement personnel recruit recruitment, officer hiring and staff retention seminar workshop was developed as a result of a California and national research project on public safety officer recruiting, hiring screening, and turnover issues. The recruiting, securing and keeping of qualified staff, uniformed and support, is considered a crisis situation in some jurisdictions. An expanding criminal justice system, career retirement cycles and a highly competitive economy impact law enforcement in unusual ways. 123 public safety agencies were stuidied for specific references of the dynamics a stable, professional workforce. This program will assist recruiting personnel and training decision makers in developing plans, strategies and presentations to maintain a quality and reliable public safety workforce.

Our Consulting Services and Workshop are in a Completed Staff Work Form. This means that at the end of the program, your department will have a stregic and tactical plan for meeting your recruitment, hiring and retention goals.

• examine police, sheriff, law enforcement recruitment, hiring and retention of sworn and non-sworn personnel from a statewide and national perspective

• compare those state & national trends to recruiting potential applicants and candidates now and in the foreseeable future

• identify the actual jurisdictional and agency dollar and resource costs of recruiting, recruitment and hiring to finally achieve a single "first day police employee" as an argument for different recruitment, hiring and retention strategies with their department and budget authorities

• review and discuss the major "ROADBLOCKS" for recruit applicants and candidates in the 7+ steps of the law enforcement recruitment and hiring process

• review and discuss the justification and validity of pre-employment standards and strategies for recruiting and hiring the right people at the start of the applicant procedures and candidate review

• using national and state references, identify what are the major causes of police employees, uniformed and support, leaving their agency or jurisdiction and how to retain them

• scrutinize the organizational health of their agency's policies and practices that may fuel employee dissatisfaction and separation

• link and apply organizational health from hiring to promotions and assignment

• prepare a worksheet of specific targets for improving recruitment, hiring and retention of all departmental employees

Getting THE RIGHT PEOPLE the FIRST TIME

Reliable Screening Methods in a TIMELY MANNER

KEEPING the Qualified People You've Worked Hard to Recruit