Pre-Employment Background Investigations for Public Safety Professionals

Preface

Rhetoric and hyperbole aside, we are truly facing a very difficult situation in the recruitment, selection, and retention of the nation’s public safety officers. This seems to be a timeless issue in organizations, one that often defies logical reason in even the simplest of forms. As the gateway to the criminal justice organization, the background investigator serves as the filtering agent between the efforts of recruiting officers, who measure success by numbers and not quality, and the flawed predictive abilities of formalized cognitive and psychological testing processes. Serving as the nexus between recruitment and selection, the background ...