Police Recruiting Show: Supercharge Your Recruiting Website

Book Your Discovery Call Now On today’s episode, Doug Larsen emphasizes that while having a website is crucial for recruiting, simply having a flashy or expensive website doesn’t necessarily equate to recruiting success. The website needs to focus on functionality rather than just aesthetics. Hosted by Dr. Travis Yates, the pair discuss that agencies should […]

Recruiting Police Candidates Is Not Enough

I’ve written a ton on police recruiting in recent years because I believe it is the most pressing issue of the profession at any time in the last generation.   It’s pretty simple…Without the proper recruiting, the profession will slowly fade into a mediocrity that we do not want to imagine.   Much of what I have […]

Changing Law Enforcement Recruiting

LO: Speaking on behalf of law enforcement, I know we are somewhat hesitant when a company hits the scene.  Tell us a little about yourself.   SAFEGUARD is a law enforcement recruiting agency and we are unique in that we are founded by law enforcement. When you say “Law enforcement recruiting agency,” it’s important to know that […]

Police Signing Bonuses Will Not Help

Law enforcement is facing a critical moment in history and if leaders don’t make the correct decisions now, the safety of communities and the ability of the profession to fulfill the mission of crime reduction will be lost for generations to come.   I have spoken in detail about law enforcement recruiting over the last […]

The Myths of Police Recruiting

There is nothing more alarming today than the potential for the continued staffing shortage in law enforcement agencies. I haven’t been in a room with law enforcement administrators in the last two years where I wasn’t asked what must be done to increase police recruiting. My answers are not always popular, but it is time that […]

A New Recruiting Strategy That Works

The problem with law enforcement recruiting has been well documented in recent years and it’s been easy to blame the rhetoric and the politics of “defund” the police. We first heard about a new way of recruiting after reading “The Courageous Police Leader” last year and after speaking to the author at length, we set […]

Police Recruiting Ideas From The Military

Author and Trainer Travis Yates wrote about the inherent problems with law enforcement recruiting in his best selling book, “The Courageous Police Leader.” He was recently quoted in an article we ran on a revolutionary methodology of recruiting from a law enforcement operated company, SAFEGUARD Recruiting and we asked him to expand on his thoughts on this important subject. This is the second article in a series of articles on Police Recruiting. This originally appeared at LawOfficer.com

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