Go to the websites of four large police departments (New York City at www.nypdrecruit.com, Los Angeles at http://www.lapdonline.org/ Chicago at https://home.chicagopolice.org/inside-the-cpd/bethechange/chicago-police-officer-recruitment/, and St. Louis at http://www.slmpd.org/careers.shtml and identify the major qualifications to be a police officer that are listed there.

Answer the following questions:

1. What qualifications are the same or similar among the agencies you examined?
2. What qualifications are unique among those listed by the four agencies??
3. Which employment qualifications are the most difficult to meet? Do you agree that all of the qualifications most difficult to meet are necessary? Would you add any qualifications?  If so what would they be?  What impact of your new qualifications on the recruitment and selection of police officers?
4. What is the salary structure of the department? What is the starting salary?