City of Baltimore - File #: 12-0035R

• File #: 12-0035R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Diversity Recruitment Efforts - Women, Minorities, and Military Veterans in the Baltimore Police Department
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Withdrawn
• File created: 3/19/2012
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 1/28/2013
• Title: Informational Hearing - Diversity Recruitment Efforts - Women, Minorities, and Military Veterans in the Baltimore Police Department FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore Police Commissioner to report on the number and percentage of women, minorities, and military veterans in the Baltimore Police Department; the number and percentage of those serving in supervisory or high-ranking positions; opportunities for promotions and career advancement; specific training to address gender, race, and returning veteran issues, and; recruitment efforts to attract more women, minority, and military veteran Baltimore City residents to the Department.
• Sponsors: Helen L. Holton, Bill Henry, Warren Branch, Sharon Green Middleton, Nick Mosby, Rochelle Spector, Mary Pat Clarke, William H. Cole, IV, Edward Reisinger, President Young, William "Pete" Welch, Robert Curran, James B. Kraft
• Indexes: Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/28/2013	0	City Council	Withdrawn
3/22/2012	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
3/19/2012	0	City Council	Introduced
3/19/2012	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Holton



A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Informational Hearing - Diversity Recruitment Efforts - Women, Minorities, and Military Veterans in the Baltimore Police Department

FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore Police Commissioner to report on the number and percentage of women, minorities, and military veterans in the Baltimore Police Department; the number and percentage of those serving in supervisory or high-ranking positions; opportunities for promotions and career advancement; specific training to address gender, race, and returning veteran issues, and; recruitment efforts to attract more women, minority, and military veteran Baltimore City residents to the Department.
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Recitals

The introduction to the Law Enforcement Recruitment Toolkit, a June 2009 publication of the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services and the International Association of Chiefs of Police states that “recruiting and staffing shortfalls continue to plague law enforcement agencies across the United States. New challenges in the 21st century, including military call-ups, a greater number of retirements, homeland security obligations, and increased competition, have combined to make the problem more acute.”

The report states that “the goal of police recruitment is, and always has been, to hire not merely enough people but the right...