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Recruiting police officers these days is HARD!
Check out this quote from City-Journal…
Across the United States, from cities to rural counties, police departments are confronting a recruitment crisis. “Going back to 2010, we had about 4,700 online applications. That dropped down to about 1,900 last year,” said Steve Anderson, chief of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, in a Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) report last year. Seattle’s police department reported a 40 percent to 50 percent drop in applications, while Jefferson County, Colorado’s applications plummeted 70 percent. In total, 86 percent of police chiefs nationwide reported a shortage of sworn officers, with nearly half stating that the shortage had worsened over the past five years.
There is a crisis in law enforcement recruiting and has been for several years. To meet the challenge, some police departments are being very creative. Take for example, the viral video approach of the Fort Worth Police Department. And while you may be laughing at this strategy, as of February 4, 2023 they have received over 300 applications!
If you are recruiting for law enforcement and viral videos don’t interest you, here are a few more options from Epic Recruiting, an agency with 16 years experience recruiting the next generation of officers through creative police recruitment strategies. But, I digress.
This week’s comic strip guest star is Michael Glenn, a Recruitment Marketing and Employer Branding consultant living in Atlanta and is open for work! Tell him I said hello and be sure to comment on his fearlessness. If you like a chance to be featured in a future comic strip, become an email subscriber and instructions will soon follow.
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Across the United States, from cities to rural counties, police departments are confronting a recruitment crisis. “Going back to 2010, we had about 4,700 online applications. That dropped down to about 1,900 last year,” said Steve Anderson, chief of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department, in a Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) report last year. Seattle’s police department reported a 40 percent to 50 percent drop in applications, while Jefferson County, Colorado’s applications plummeted 70 percent. In total, 86 percent of police chiefs nationwide reported a shortage of sworn officers, with nearly half stating that the shortage had worsened over the past five years.
There is a crisis in law enforcement recruiting and has been for several years. To meet the challenge, some police departments are being very creative. Take for example, the viral video approach of the Fort Worth Police Department. And while you may be laughing at this strategy, as of February 4, 2023 they have received over 300 applications!
If you are recruiting for law enforcement and viral videos don’t interest you, here are a few more options from Epic Recruiting, an agency with 16 years experience recruiting the next generation of officers through creative police recruitment strategies. But, I digress.
This week’s comic strip guest star is Michael Glenn, a Recruitment Marketing and Employer Branding consultant living in Atlanta and is open for work! Tell him I said hello and be sure to comment on his fearlessness. If you like a chance to be featured in a future comic strip, become an email subscriber and instructions will soon follow.
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