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Article: College education and police job performance: a ten-year study.
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- Public Personnel Management
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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The value of college education to effective work performance is accepted among many human resource practitioners. Recently, the importance of college education to law enforcement jobs has also gained attention, with some jurisdictions requiring college education as a prerequisite to hiring. Such requirements are purported to lead to improvements in police job performance such as decreased corruption.(1) However, published research results of the relationship between education and job performance often conflicts.(2) Furthermore, little recent, published research has explored this relationship in police work, an issue of particular relevance with changes in law enforcement ...