Recruitment and retention : lessons for the New Orleans Police Department

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Label

Recruitment and retention : lessons for the New Orleans Police Department

Title remainder

lessons for the New Orleans Police Department

Statement of responsibility

Bernard D. Rostker, William M. Hix, Jeremy M. Wilson

Creator

• Rostker, Bernard

Contributor

• Hix, William M., (William Michael), 1940-
• Wilson, Jeremy M., 1974-

Subject

• New Orleans (La.), Police Department
• New Orleans (La.), Police Department
• New Orleans (La.), Police Department
• Police -- Recruiting -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• Police administration -- Louisiana | New Orleans
• Employee retention -- Louisiana | New Orleans

Language

eng

Summary

Since Hurricane Katrina, resignations from the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) have increased, and the department went more than a year without recruiting enough candidates to justify a police academy training course. The authors present practical recommendations for change that could help the NOPD improve recruiting and retention. Issues addressed include the lack of affordable post-Katrina housing, the fact that the families of many police officers no longer live in the New Orleans area, the destroyed departmental infrastructure, and a budget that does not provide enough resources to meet basic needs. They focus on compensation, including housing; the promotion process and the career management system; recruiting; the mix of officers and civilians; and ways to improve the morale of the NOPD. The recommendations, which are specifically tailored to the unique circumstances of the NOPD, include (1) using civilian employees, where appropriate, for jobs currently being performed by uniformed officers; (2) developing a proactive recruiting program; (3) offering some of the city's housing stock in-kind to police officers or selling the property and using the proceeds to improve compensation; (4) increasing the frequency of promotion examinations; (5) eliminating the backlog of promotions to higher levels in the department; (6) restructuring compensation to attract recruits and retain serving officers; (7) establishing a first-responders charter school; and (8) rebuilding the police infrastructure to improve morale

Member of

• Free online access: JSTOR
• Rand Corporation monograph series

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

363.2/2

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV8148.N42

LC item number

R67 2007eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Rand Corporation monograph series