NCJ Number
174510
Journal
Policing Volume: 21 Issue: 3 Dated: 1998 Pages: 534-546
Date Published
1998
Length
13 pages
Annotation
This article compares campus and municipal police.
Abstract
The article examines similarities and differences between municipal and campus police agencies with respect to various human resource characteristics and policies: the proportion of sworn personnel, gender and race of sworn officers, salaries and benefits, educational requirements, levels of training required, drug testing policies, and the extent of collective bargaining/unionization. The comparison disclosed that: (1) campus departments employed a larger percentage of non-sworn staff; (2) campus departments compare very favorably with city agencies in female and minority hiring; (3) a higher percentage of campus departments required þsome collegeþ of their applicants; (4) a higher percentage of campus departments had pre-employment drug testing policies; (5) campus police salaries and educational incentive pay were consistently lower than their city counterparts but campus departments compared favorably regarding hazardous duty, shift differential and merit pay; and (6) campus departments were clearly behind the cities in the degree to which they were allowed to collectively bargain. Tables, notes, references, bibliography