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Recommendations

Chapter 3

Recruitment, Hiring, and Personnel Practices

Finding 6

FPC and MPD do not have a mechanism for external input from the community regarding the recruitment and hiring of MPD officers.

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Recommendation 6.1

MPD should develop a Recruitment and Retention Advisory Council whose members represent a cross-section of community stakeholders.

Recommendation 6.2

FPC should include on community members at-large to serve on the police applicant oral interview board.

Recommendation 6.1

MPD should develop a Recruitment and Retention Advisory Council whose members represent a cross-section of community stakeholders.

Current:

The FPC itself is a diverse cross section of community stakeholders so in that sense this role is being fulfilled.

Future:

The FPC could focus more on recruitment and retention issues via their Testing subcommittee. An expansion of the number of commissioners to the full number authorized in statute (9) could allow for a broader division of labor in FPC subcommittees and allow for deeper study of relevant issues.

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Mar. 28 4:33:13 PM

Comment:

Require under SOP §500 (Personnel Evaluations), in addition to all required performance evaluations, that recruits be psychologically evaluated, by licensed psychologists, when selected for police academy training, and that all probationary and non-probationary MPD employees be evaluated before being hired, and semi-annually, and upon request, in-between, especially for manifestations of trauma. Evaluations should be performed by licensed psychologists who are familiar with the rigors of policing.