Jon Felperin - LE Career Advice and Business Opportunities

LE Career Advice and Business Opportunities
with Jon Felperin

Jon Felperin, M.A., is a professional educator, Police Trainer, and a former Instructor at the San Francisco Police Academy. For five years he was and instructor at UC Berkeley, in conjunction with the Haas Business School.

Most recently, Jon has become concerned with the difficulties that agencies across the country are having with recruitment, selection, and retention of new Officers. Early retirement, rising educational standards, and declining literacy levels are shrinking the qualified candidate pool. Only about 3 percent of all applicants successfully complete the testing, academy, and field training stages. In fact, as many as 75 candidates are needed to fill every one position!

To help combat the problem, Jon is an active member of the National Partnership for Careers in Public Safety and Security which fosters the development of high school career academies specializing in Public Safety, Law Enforcement, and Security careers. (There are more than 900 academies of this type in the United States.)

Read all Jon's columns on PoliceOne:

The business of security, Part II: Bodyguard licensing and training requirements - 06/05/2005

The business of security, Part I: How to start and manage your own security company - 05/13/2005

Do you have what it takes? ... Confessions of a female academy recruit, Part II - 05/12/2005

Do you have what it takes? ... Confessions of a female academy recruit - 03/15/2005

Women in Law Enforcement: Two steps forward, three steps back - 05/18/2004 Comments

What agencies look for in law enforcement recruits - 04/08/2004

Jon Felperin is Director of The Center for Law Enforcement Training based in Northridge, CA. You may reach him at jfelperin123@earthlink.net or visit http://www.ACareerInLawEnforcement.com

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