COPS Recruitment, 
Hiring & Retention 
Resources Available 
for Order/Download

• Innovations in Police Recruitment and Hiring - Hiring in the Spirit of Service
  Abstract: As the issue of recruiting and retaining quality law enforcement officers makes national headlines, this report helps fill the void by telling the story of how five sites selected to participate in a COPS-funded project entitled "Hiring in the Spirit of Serv...
• Combat Deployment and the Returning Police Officer
  Abstract: This report examines issues concerning police officers' transition back to work after combat zone deployment. Topics include the psychological effects of combat deployment, methods that may lessen the severity of combat stress experienced, and strategies ...
• Community Policing Defined
  Abstract: Community Policing Defined provides a detailed description of the elements and subelements that fall under the community policing philosophy. The document describes the range of collaborative partnerships that exist between policing agencies and the individuals…
• Community Policing Explained: A Guide for Local Governments
  Abstract: This guide serves several purposes. First, it will assist communities in determining what questions to ask about community policing. Second, it will provide guidance in how to tailor community policing to community needs and available resources. And final...
• Community Policing for Mayors: A Municipal Service Model for Community Policing and Beyond
  Abstract: Many local elected officials, managers, and community members ask if their agency is a "community policing agency." While there are many definitions of community policing, this short document provides some direction by discussing what community policing ...
• Good to Great Policing: Application of Business Management Principles in the Public Sector
  Abstract: This publication takes the core principles articulated by Jim Collins in his best-selling book "Good to Great" and applies them to law enforcement. The result is based not only on Good to Great, but also on a 1-day executive session, funded by COPS, that ...
• A Guide to Developing, Maintaining, and Succeeding With Your School Resource Officer Program
  Abstract: Many SRO programs have experienced difficulty recruiting, screening, retaining, training, and supervising SROs. This new COPS report documents promising methods that selected SRO programs have used to address these potential problem areas of SRO program ...

COPS Evaluation Brief Series Available for Order/Download

• COPS Evaluation Brief No. 1: Promoting Cooperative Strategies to Reduce Racial Profiling
• COPS Evaluation Brief No.2: Evaluation of a Pilot Community 
  Policing Program
• COPS Evaluation Brief No. 3: Creating A Culture of Integrity

COPS CD-ROM Resources Available for Order

• Recruitment, Hiring, and Retention Resources for Law Enforcement 
  CD-ROM
• Police Training Officer (PTO) CD-ROM
• SRO Performance Evaluation: A Guide to Getting Results CD-ROM
• Tribal Law Enforcement Resources CD-ROM

2008 RAND Hiring and Recruitment Summit (Presentations)

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• Summit Proceedings