Strategy #26
Promotion
Validate promotional processes, which provide upward mobility opportunities.
Background
To ensure that departments continue to have qualified personnel at all levels, upward mobility programs need to be established which are designed to provide equitable access and departmental assistance to those with a demonstrated interest and ability to advance. Traffic safety should play an integral role in this process.
Actions
- Ensure employees have equal access to upward mobility opportunities and develop law enforcement personnel to their fullest potential prior to participation.
- Validate the promotional process.
- Develop methods to streamline the promotional process and implement ways to encourage viable candidates to participate.
- Develop and maintain a mechanism for monitoring and evaluating program effectiveness and participation.
- Facilitate career opportunities by exploring new avenues for upward mobility and making recommendations for improvement in existing career opportunities.
- Include traffic-related items in all promotional processes.
Benefits
- Implementation of a valid process for identifying, testing, and selecting the best candidate for promotion.
- A standardized system ensures that all employees have equal access to upward mobility opportunities.
- Creation of an atmosphere that will enable interested employees to utilize upward mobility options.
- Establishment of a system that assures that qualified and capable candidates are afforded promotional opportunities at all levels within a department.
- Inclusion of traffic items in the promotional process will advance traffic safety priority within the agency.
- Valid promotional processes ensure a fair and equitable system.
Other Considerations
- Costs associated with career development training.
- Costs associated with personnel taken away from work to conduct or to attend training.
- There may be objective non-traditional processes that can be validated for the promotional procedures.
- Outside expertise may be needed to complete the process.