Exam 1.4 Flashcards
What is the importance of recruitment and selection in policing?
It is vital to build a team that can handle a variety of complexities
What is the result of poor recruitment and selection procedures?
Hiring wrong personnel
How is leadership succession nurtured in recruitment and selection in policing?
It helps in understanding and addressing generational differences
What are immutable characteristics?
Characteristics determined at birth or characteristics that individuals should not be asked to change
What is the purpose of targeted recruiting?
To attract qualified, eligible, and interested candidates
What are some ways that targeted recruiting occurs?
- Engaging in the goals and communication methods of potential recruits
- Recruiting at schools and in minority neighborhoods
- Conducting orientation sessions that provide a realistic overview of police work
- Using the Internet to announce position vacancies
What are advantages of hiring and retaining women officers?
- Women are a large group of competent candidates
- Often results in reduction of the use of excessive force
- Helps implement community-oriented policing
- Improves response to violence against women
- Reduces occurrences of sex discrimination and sexual harassment
- Can bring about beneficial changes in policy for all officers
What are strategies to recruit and maintain women officers?
- Advertising in places that women frequently go to
- Using female recruiters
- Reaching out to girls in schools
- Using female-friendly equipment and uniforms
- Placing emphasis on programs that address work and family issues
- Conditioning women to take on sworn posititions
- Establishing formal mentor programs for new recruits
What needs to change regarding the recruitment and retainment of officers of minority groups?
- Vast underrepresentation of minority group officers above patrol level
- Early black officers have often been confined to working in black neighborhoods
What are strategies to recruit minorities?
- Using recruitment teams of women and minorities
- Reaching out to members of the community through minority publications
- Incentivizing successful recruitments
- Recruiting at schools
What is institutional discrimination?
Unfair testing procedures, hiring practices, job assignments, and educational requirements
What is the Multiple-Hurdle Procedure?
A series of tests that must be completed before a recruit can become an officer
How can one fail the Multiple-Hurdle Procedure?
Inability to pass any of the “hurdles” disqualifies a candidate
How is the Multiple-Hurdle Procedure different from a compensatory approach?
Compensatory approaches allow candidates to complete all tests and then be ranked on final scores, whereas the Multiple-Hurdle Procedure disqualifies a candidate if they are unable to pass any of the tests
What is a status test?
A test related to an applicant’s citizenship, eligibility for owning a driver’s license, residency, age, and education level
- Police officers typically required to be U.S. citizens
