| Abstract: | Although police selection procedures have been identified as necessary to the development of socially effective and responsive police agencies, the implication that such procedures are sufficient to this goal is criticized in the present article. It is argued that job performance criteria, embedded in the status quo of the prevailing police culture, inherently limit the ultimate utility of selection procedures. Therefore, prior to developing selection and job performance prediction procedures, which are at best palliative solutions to the problems of the police agency, it is necessary to address the more fundamental issues regarding social goals of a contemporary police agency. Such an analysis may suggest alternative ways of providing the services necessary to obtain these identified social goals. (35 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
