Investigators Who Perform Well

• NCJ Number: 105197
• Author(s): B Cohen; J Chaiken
• Date Published: 1987
• Length: 91 pages
• Contract Number(s): J-LEAA-011-81
• Sponsoring Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ); US Dept of Justice NIJ Pub
• Corporate Author: Abt Associates, Inc
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: NIJ Issues and Practices

Annotation

This volume presents the results of a study to find the best methods for law enforcement agencies to use in selecting investigators and evaluating their performance.

Abstract

The report is written for detective supervisors and managers, personnel department heads, and attorneys who deal with equal employment opportunity litigation. Information gathering for the study included interviews with personnel in a dozen police jurisdictions throughout the United States. Key elements of the selection process, the authors found, are fairness, validity, job relatedness, utility, and efficiency. While college study and past job performance (including rates of conviction) were good indicators of future investigative performance, written civil service examinations and tests for verbal ability were the only factors that achieved the validity standards for job relatedness required under most EEO regulations. Tables and chapter notes.