In order to reduce vacant places and speed up the recruitment process, the Green Bay Police Department in August. Recruit the process of recruiting patrol officers.
The Police Department currently holds 15 vacant patrol duties, and the following year, seven more, according to pensions on pensions, the police and fire and fire commission are currently opened. The recruitment of candidates was increasingly difficult, according to the memorandum, partly due to the long recruitment process.
Based on the memorandum, the current process can take five to six months from the date the candidate appeals to their final interview and recruitment. The changes were recommended to make the process more effective, including a reduced college credit claim, a revised written exam and personal interviews.
The changes were unanimously approved by the City Police and Fire Commission on July 22.
“We are all of difficult competition between the same candidates,” said Matt Cain, who goes to the commander of the Professional Standards Division at the meeting. “What we are trying to do is get them a proposal faster, to pass them on to the offer faster to keep them from losing their competition.”
What is changing?
The Police Department will replace the four aspects of the process of recruiting its patrol officers: applications, education requirements, written exam and interview process.
The applications will first be reviewed weekly, not a quarter review.
The new process will also reduce the number of college credits to submit the application. In the past, all candidates had to have 60 college credits. In the new process, this requirement will apply only to applicants who have already graduated from the Law Enforcement Academy.
Persons who have not released the Law Enforcement Academy may apply with 40 college credits. During the academy, the candidate would receive the remaining 20 credits required to meet the state’s 60 credit claims.
Some members of the commission expressed concern about the reduction of the education standards of the department. However, after the background inspection and outdoor training processes were secured, the commissioner Ed Dorff said he acknowledged that 20 credits were “not going to change a lot.”
“It is these other things that will make the difference,” Dorff said.
Cain said candidates had become more industrial to apply, Cain said. “If you look at those programs … You see that fewer people want to throw their penny to hand over themselves,” he said.
“All of these changes are what can apply,” the commission chairman Rod Goldhahn added.
Currently, the department administers a report to the test every quarter as the second step of the recruitment process after the application. In the new process, the test will be replaced by a more detailed written exam administered on the Internet in public security responses – the same recruitment seller used for the city fire protection.
The final change will affect the interview process. Instead of the candidates, having a initial interview with the police department staff and a later interview with the police and the Fire Commission, candidates will record online interviews through public security answers.
The recorded answers will be reviewed by the members of the commission, the Division of the Professional Standards of the Police Department and the human resources. According to the Commission Memorandum, the new process will reduce the delay caused by the planning challenges.
The main study process will remain the same.
After ensuring that the main standards were not reduced and that the Commission could continue the candidates if they were given additional questions, the members of the commission unanimously voted in favor.
“I trust PD that if they realize that it doesn’t work, that it will be re -evaluated,” said John Laux, a member of the commission
Vivian Barrett is a Green Bay Press-Gazette public security reporter. You can contact her by email. By email [email protected] or (920) 431-8314. Follow it in X, former Twitter, @vivianbarrett_.
This article initially appeared in Green Bay Press-Gazette: Green Bay Police Department Amendments to the recruitment process in the fight against vacancies