ABSTRACT
Change from a traditional model to a community policing model requires sheriffs and police chiefs to rethink how they conduct many aspects of police business. One of the most important is the issue of selecting and then appropriately training the "right people" to do community policing. While it is not necessarily the case that the usual motives (e.g., altruism, interest in working out-of-doors, etc.) that have attracted people to law enforcement careers in the past will differ from those of the people who might be drawn to community policing, it may well be that community policing does require higher skill levels in some key areas than in others. In particular, this chapter suggests that chiefs and sheriffs might consider ways to include their communities in selecting, training, and retaining officers to do community policing.
