September 2018

Guest Editors: Tracy Phillips and Andrey Pankov

Personnel management is a major part of a chief’s work. Conceiving strategies to recruit qualified candidates, managing employee performance, developing the leaders of tomorrow, and retaining skilled officers—these challenges and other related issues are ever-present for every law enforcement leader. The complexities of these issues, coupled with increasing competition for personnel from the private sector and the constantly evolving culture, require law enforcement agencies to explore new options and learn from each other’s successes and mistakes.

Articles

• Police Personnel Retention Challenges: Literature Review and Recommendations

  By Jane B. Northup, Criminalist and Quality Assurance Officer, Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory
  The challenge of recruiting and hiring quality personnel has emerged as a critical problem for today’s law enforcement agen...

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• The Right Person for the Right Position: Changing Hiring Practices to Meet 21st Century Demands

  By Alex Neicu, Captain, Tracy, California, Police Department
  Finding the right person for the right position in a law enforcement agency is a challenge every police executive encounters ...

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• Transforming Law Enforcement by Changing the Face of Policing

  By Catherine W. Sanz, President/Executive Director, Women in Federal Law Enforcement (WIFLE) Foundation, Inc.; Sheree L. Mixell, Vice President/Deputy Executive Director, WIFLE Foundation, Inc.; and Helen H. Yu, Assistant Professor of Public Administration, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  According to the U.S. Department of Justice, women compose just 12.7 percent of all sworn law enforcement officers in the Uni...

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• Changing Times; Changing Strategies: One Agency’s Experience with Innovative Recruitment

  By Katie Allen, Lieutenant, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Police Department
  For a number of years, the Winston-Salem Police Department, a North Carolina law enforcement agency of 560 sworn officers, eas...

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• The NOBLE Mentoring Potential CEOs Program: A Process to Develop Chiefs of Police

  By Patrick Oliver, PhD, Director, Criminal Justice Program, Cedarville University, Ohio
  The National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE) established a mentoring program for aspiring chief executive officers (CEOs) in July 2006 cal...

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• IACP Through the Years: Upcoming: A Crisis in Recruiting

  By Joseph W. Hawthorne, General Manager, Civil Service Department, Los Angeles, California
  The Civil Service Commission of the City of Los Angeles is charged with, among other things, the filling of some 35,000 positions in some 1,250 different classes. ...

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• IACP 2018 Exhibitor List

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• Exhibitor Update: September 2018

  The Police Chief keeps you on the cutting edge of law enforceme...

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