Referral Programs Can Transform Your Police Hiring Strategy

Recruiting top-tier candidates for law enforcement roles is tougher than ever in today’s competitive hiring landscape. Police departments need to find individuals who are not only qualified but who also align with the core values and mission of their agency. Traditional hiring methods, like job postings and recruitment fairs, often fail to deliver recruits who […]

Leverage Technology To Improve Your Police Recruiting

Law enforcement recruiting has certainly changed ion recent years and along with those changes comes technological advances. Early on, SAFEGUARD Recruiting discovered that many of their clients were tracking candidates and applicants using spreadsheets and even a white board and when the recruiting campaigns of those clients rose significantly, there was a lot of frustration […]

Supercharge Your Recruiting With A Referral Program

“We’re here to work with the departments and help them get staffed as easily as we can.” – Doug Larsen Doug Larsen, the CEO of SAFEGUARD Recruiting, doesn’t mix words when he asked who the best recruiters are for a law enforcement agency. Without hesitation, he says the agency. That may sound strange coming from […]

Police Recruiting Show: The Recruiting Crisis Myth

On this episode, Doug Larsen and Travis Yates discuss why using the term “crisis” creates a perception that the situation is unsolvable, deterring innovation and action. It becomes an easy excuse for failure, rather than a motivator for change. As Larsen points out, there is ample interest in law enforcement careers, as evidenced by the […]

Police Recruiting Is Not ‘Cool’

It is no secret that law enforcement recruiting is in the middle of a crisis. I’ve discussed what was coming for several years and while I used to spend time convincing others that our recruiting strategies must change, most are now on board.   While I applaud the agencies that are finally spending the time […]

Police Recruiting With Social Media

Dr. Travis Yates is a commander with a large municipal police department and author of “The Courageous Police Leader: A Survival Guide for Combating Cowards, Chaos & Lies.” His risk management and leadership seminars have been taught to thousands of professionals across the world. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy with a Doctorate Degree in Strategic Leadership and the CEO of the Courageous Police Leadership Alliance

Police Recruiting Is Critical

As the need for effective law enforcement continues to grow, police recruiting has become a critical process in ensuring a safe and secure community. Police departments around the world are constantly seeking highly qualified applicants to join their ranks, and attracting the right candidates can be challenging. In this article, we will discuss police recruiting, […]

Why Your Recruiting Campaign Won’t Work

Most leaders, recruiters and anyone involved with police recruiting are extremely frustrated. Never in law enforcement history has so much effort and money been dedicated to recruiting but the results have been less than optimal.   The first hurdle that an agency has in their recruiting efforts is to actually evaluate if what they are […]

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