This PSO Perspective summarizes lessons from our research, Dimensions of a Police Recruitment Program, appearing in Policing: An International Journal, 2025. It identifies the key elements of police recruitment programs, supporting a more systematic approach to recruitment by reviewing academic and practitioner literature from 2010 to 2024 and conducting interviews with 26 subject-mater experts.
Dimensions of a Police Recruitment Program. Michigan State University Police Staffing Observatory, PSO Perspective, Vol. 2(3), 2025.
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