Recruitment, Retention, and Turnover of Police Personnel

Recruitment, Retention, and Turnover of Police Personnel

Author: Dwayne W. Orrick

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0398085935

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The recruitment and selection of exceptional personnel are critical to a police department achieving its mission; however, agencies nationwide are experiencing difficulty finding and retaining qualified officers. This book provides a systematic approach to successful employee recruitment in both law and enforcement and criminal justice agencies. The text discusses in detail the legal environment and necessity to develop a diverse workforce. It further outlines the need, benefits, and steps for identifying a department's core values, conducting an organizational assessment, and completing a sta.


Transforming Digital Worlds

Transforming Digital Worlds

Author: Gobinda G. Chowdhury

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 9783319781068

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Transforming Digital Worlds, iConference 2018, held in Sheffield, UK, in March 2018. The 42 full papers and 40 short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 invited talks in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 219 submissions. The papers address topics such as social media; communication studies and online communities; mobile information and cloud computing; data mining and data analytics; information retrieval; information behaviour and digital literacy; digital curation; and information education and libraries.


Improving Police Response to Persons with Mental Illness

Improving Police Response to Persons with Mental Illness

Author: Thomas Joseph Jurkanin

Publisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 0398077789

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The Ghostbusters refrain "Who you gonna call?" typically connotes a lighthearted response to an unusual problem, but in the context of a human being suffering a mental health crisis, the refrain is anything but lighthearted. In an ideal world, "who you gonna call" would be a trained mental health professional. In the real world, the cry for help is usually received by the police. Police respond because there is no one else to assist. Police officers rank mental health crisis situations as far more stressful than crimes in progress. A person, suffering from mental illness is, by definition, not fully rational. Although they are likewise not fully irrational, behavior is unpredictable, and unpredictable behavior for the police is potentially dangerous behavior. As a consequence, outcomes of engagement between law enforcement and mental health consumers are too often tragic. No organization is more concerned about inadequate response than the police themselves. Improving Police Response to Mental Illness provides best practices guidance. A national pool of experts provide both insight and recommendations, ranging from the conceptual, Atypical Situations-Atypical Responses, to the pragmatic, Law Enforcement Training Models. Written specifically for the book, each chapter addresses a given critical component, including social policy, police response alternatives, training, legal constraints, and cooperative agreements with mental health service providers. This is an indispensable volume on the subject of police and mental health and is designed for police practitioners, mental health professionals, and scholars of social policy.


Essential Leadership Lessons from the Thin Blue Line

Essential Leadership Lessons from the Thin Blue Line

Author: Dean Crisp

Publisher: Light Messages Publishing

Published: 2021-09-07

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1611534445

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A veteran police chief's hard-won lessons on leading yourself, leading others, and leading an organization. Essential Leadership Lessons from the Thin Blue Line is just that &– lessons learned the old-fashioned way through trial and error, studying, hard work, and experience while on our nation's front lines to serve and protect. Dean Crisp spent decades leading people where a single misstep could cost a life. Faced with the daily challenges of a police chief, Dean threw himself into learning all he could about effective leadership and applying those lessons in his departments. He shares those hard-won lessons in this book. Dean lays the book out into three key sections that build on each other to help you become a better leader: Leading Yourself, Leading Others, Leading the Organization. Dean's approach to leadership is built on his concept of Diamond Leadership, a four-point method that creates a self-perpetuating synergy for positive change. Dean has taught this method in elite conferences to countless rising leaders, and now he brings it to you. "I think that all leaders want to be really good at leading and most seek ways to improve. Some are even willing to go to extraordinary lengths to become the best. I am hoping this book will inspire others to be their best and to constantly strive to get better, to shoot for the stars, to get outside their comfort zones, and to push themselves to become remarkable." &–Dean Crisp Built on the success of Dean's debut leadership book, Leadership Lessons from the Thin Blue Line, this new release features a revised approach to the curriculum, expanded information, and a streamlined formula to develop the leader within you. Essential Leadership Lessons from the Thin Blue Line uses personal anecdotes to drive home the human element of leadership and will connect with you at any point on your journey to becoming a significant leader. "My motive and intent in writing this book is simple: I want to provide the reader with leadership lessons and experiences which I hope will help you, the reader, to become a better leader and, more importantly, a better person." &–Dean Crisp


Danger, Duty, and Disillusion

Danger, Duty, and Disillusion

Author: Joan C. Barker

Publisher: Waveland Press

Published: 1998-11-07

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1478607939

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An insider view of an urban subculture! While much of the literature on police analyzes critically what they do, few works address issues of how police officers feel about their chosen profession, their worldview, or their visions. This refreshingly original and unique ethnographic contribution by anthropologist Joan Barker exposes the human elementone rarely seen by non-policeof officers working for the often-controversial L.A.P.D. During her twenty years of fieldwork, Barker gathered valuable information through formal, in-depth interviews and firsthand experiences, distilling her findings into an illuminating, coherent account. She discovers that five phases of occupational socialization normatively mold officers experiences and perceptions. Fleshing out her discussion is the compelling narrative of Fred, a traditional officer whose authentic voice reveals feelings and attitudes that manifest the essence of the human who does the job of policing. An insider view of an urban subculture usually known only from its public presentation.


Officer Safety

Officer Safety

Author: Laura King

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-05

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781735564401

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If you are a police officer, you need to read this book... it just might save your life. Each year, law enforcement loses more officers to suicide than to all line-of-duty causes of death combined. To stop this from happening, the concept of Officer Safety needs to be redefined to address both the physical and psychological threats that are the realities of our profession. This book will help prepare officers to meet both the physical and psychological challenges they will encounter when they choose a career in law enforcement.Over time, the stress, negativity and traumatic events an officer sees repeatedly during the course of a law enforcement career can compromise the officer's psychological resiliency. Unaddressed, this can create problems in both the officer's personal and professional life. This book will help officers learn how to:- remain psychologically strong- meet the psychological threats of the profession-avoid other rampant issues within the profession, such as alcoholism, divorce, and poor health conditions-protect their resiliency, health, and happiness at work and at home. Chief Laura LV King has been a police officer for 26 years. She's a professional speaker and trainer on mental wellness and psychological resiliency for police organizations throughout the country. In addition to her personal experience in law enforcement, King has spent years researching mental wellness specifically for law enforcement professionals. Mental wellness is not "soft stuff," it is a matter of life and death."This is information every officer must know to survive their career. It is no longer enough that we go home at the end of our shift. We deserve to go home healthy, happy, and a well-adjusted human being."- Dr. Laura LV King


The Gang Book

The Gang Book

Author: Franco Domma

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 9780692951910

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A detailed overview of street gangs in the Chicago metropolitan area.