Law enforcement agencies across the nation have struggled with recruitment and retention for years; Texas and even the Greater Houston Area have been no exception to this issue, and efforts to address it continue.<\/p>\n
Missouri City is now considering raising its signing bonus to boost recruitment\u2014something the Pearland and Galveston Police Departments have already done.<\/p>\n
Ray Hunt with the Houston Police Officers\u2019 Association says their new contract with the City, which significantly boosted their pay, went a long way towards solving their recruitment issues. According to him: \u201cWe, for the first time in the history of the Houston Police Department, have 5,500 officers. Partly because of recruiting, and because we have fewer people who are retiring.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hunt added that departments wanting to boost recruitment and retention but without the same resources to raise pay as the City of Houston can still go a long way by taking steps to ensure strong morale. \u201cYou have to have a decent command staff, a decent chief, and you have to have a decent City Manager, Sheriff, or Police Chief. When you have that kind of support, you\u2019ll have people who want to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law enforcement agencies across the nation have struggled with recruitment and retention for years; Texas and even the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57,66,223,27],"class_list":["post-481282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}