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Recruiting Community Policing Officers: Reaching Out to a Broader Applicant Pool 1
Author(s) -
Coutts Larry M.,
Schneider Frank W.,
Tenuta Claudia
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2004.tb01996.x
Subject(s) - extant taxon , law enforcement , psychology , work (physics) , social psychology , community policing , enforcement , public relations , criminology , political science , law , mechanical engineering , evolutionary biology , biology , engineering
University students described in writing the goals, functions, and activities of the police and then read descriptions of the traditional law enforcement policing (LEP) and emergent community policing (CP) models. They rated each model on several criteria (e.g., how much they would like to work under it). They also indicated if the ongoing transition to CP increased or decreased their interest in a career in policing. Results supported the hypotheses that participants would tend to equate extant policing with LEP, would prefer to work under CP, and that awareness of CP would increase their interest in a career in policing, it was suggested that if the police educate the public more about CP, they would attract a higher number of job applicants whose personal characteristics represented a better fit with CP.