Police Recruiting and Hiring: How We Do It

One thing that makes SAFEGUARD Recruiting different is our background in law enforcement combined with our unique perspective on what agencies need to fully staff. Travis Yates and Doug Larsen have over 50 years of law enforcement experience and they not only recruited inside agencies, but have taken that success and formed SAFEGUARD Recruiting, an all encompassing company that is assisting police agencies to hire and staff full.

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Recruiting for public safety is not a checkbox assignment you hand to the next person who is available. Over the past decade, we’ve seen departments civilianize many support functions, including policy management, media relations, and data analysis, for effectiveness and efficiency. When recruiting is treated as “extra duty,” agencies lose
Few understand the law enforcement profession or the recruiting crisis more than Banning Sweatland. A law enforcement professional and military veteran, Banning discusses all things leadership, recruiting, and retention with Travis Yates and SAFEGUARD Recruiting.
SAFEGUARD Recruiting is dedicated to recruiting first responders and in the latest podcast, Doug Larsen and Travis Yates discuss the importance of a department's website and how that can translate to more applicants and hires.
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