Recommendation 11.7

MPD should update the promotional testing procedures for supervisors and command officers to include questions and activities testing a candidate's ability to lead and direct community policing efforts. 

Current:

In 2010, MPD adopted the mission statement, “In partnership with the community we will create and maintain neighborhoods capable of sustaining civic life.  We commit to reducing the levels of crime, fear and disorder through community-based, problem, oriented and data-driven policing.”

The implementation of MPD’s community policing strategy is directly connected to articulating the mission of the department and physically organizing the department in a way consistent with that vision and mission.  Building on existing efforts, MPD seeks to engage research, evaluation and recommendations for enhanced community engagement around what it seeks to do in its efforts to reduce crime and create safe neighborhoods and how those efforts are communicated to and perceived by the Milwaukee community. 

The FPC is responsible for testing and ranking candidates for promotions and the FPC contracts with a consultancy firm, EB Jacobs, who has been developing and administering law enforcement personnel assessments since 1980.  Promotional testing components are developed to be aligned with the key components of each position, based on a job analysis.