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.
“You guys have neglected your streets, you’ve neglected your police department and have neglected the families of those police officers”
Meet Andrea Cortez, a 17-year law enforcement veteran and analyst at Elk Grove (Calif.) Police Department’s Real-Time Information Center
Tech Pulse in Focus: Police1 talks with Andrea Cortez about Elk Grove’s Real-Time Information Center
Andrea Cortez is a 17-year law enforcement veteran and analyst at Elk Grove (Calif.) Police Department’s Real-Time Information Center
There are some simple steps officers can take to secure a promotion
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.
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