For this assignment, imagine you are in this scenario:
You are the new personnel sergeant responsible for a department with 50 sworn officers. The department has one African American man, two Hispanic men, and two women officers. There has never been a large number of minority or women candidates applying for sworn positions in the department, and your agency does not reflect the demographics of the city.
Your city has an affirmative action program, but to date, no outreach programs have been initiated to recruit women and minorities. Your chief has asked that you provide a proposal on what strategies you would suggest to recruit women and minorities. Develop a list of what you would propose.
Then, with this information in mind, do the following:
Write a 500-minimum word paper on the strategies you would implement given this scenario. Draw insight from the IACP Recruitment Toolkit on “Recruiting for Diversity” that begins on page 29.
