Police Jobs & Careers
The Police Careers and Advancement topic page offers expert advice for officers to follow that can enable a steady rise through the ranks.
Silos kill progress and diminish the greater good, and our greater good is a healthy, operational police agency
“In addition to being police officers, we are also members of the community. We have lives outside of policing, too.”
The Alameda Police Department is nearing the maximum number of officers it can hire; the PD is only short one officer per squad and is hiring in the “top 5%" of qualified applicants
Challenging times require officers to be resilient in our thinking, intentional in our communication and disciplined in our personal time
If good officers are leaving your agency, find better ones from other departments
Choosing a law enforcement-founded vendor to digitize its paper-based background investigations process resulted in ‘massive’ time and cost savings
The concept of field training makes sense to police administrators – it is the logistics of training they may have a problem with
A survey of more than 200 Illinois agencies found that the pandemic had impacted police training, officer safety and community outreach
A letter to the American public: Why police reform must address immunity and evidence-based training
Just as we use evidence-based medicine to determine treatments, we should use evidence-based research to determine police policies
Hundreds of thousands of good-hearted, well-trained officers choose to stand between the righteous citizenry and danger
Sometimes cops save lives and sometimes cops change lives. That is what happened to me.
Officers around the country are experiencing the pain their decision to be a cop is now causing their loved ones
An activist’s call for cops to live within the communities they police has received millions of views online
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