NCJ Number
78868
Date Published
1979
Length
30 pages
Annotation
This summary report presents an overview of police benefits for 1978, with emphasis on communities with a population of over 10,000.
Abstract
Aspects of a comprehensive police personnel program designed to establish and maintain a superior police force incude a position classification plan, a compensation plan, recruitment and selection of employees on a competitive merit basis for entrance into service, inservice training, a program for promotion based on demonstrated merit, an equitable system of evaluating job performance, and the regulation of such conditions of service as vacations and sick leave. Other aspects are an effective program of employee relations, including a grievance procedure; provision of effective machinery for maintaining discipline in the department; and a sound retirement system. Basic police issues include such items as base rates of pay and cost of living provisions, shift differential pay, longevity pay, overtime pay, pay for work performed outside the job classification, paid court time, allowances for uniform replacement and cleaning and for equipment and hardware, education bonus pay and cost reimbursement, and increased pension benefits and severance pay. Other summaries in the report discuss labor negotiation issues, such as compulsory arbitration and unemployment compensation; and manpower, compensation, and expenditures for police in U.S. municipalities of 10,000 and over in population; productivity and cost control; firearms policy; and other salary and benefit concerns. Tables are included.