National Police Staffing Survey
Thank you for your participation.
Your responses will help to understand and address the critical staffing issues experienced by agencies across the country.
Read the introduction letter from Principal Investigator, Dr. Jeremy Wilson.
Police agencies across the United States struggle maintaining their workforces. Policing positions are among the most difficult for governments to fill. Many officers experiencing stress or believing police work is undervalued are leaving the field, on top of those increasingly retiring. At the same time, the pool of applicants has been shrinking in many communities.
With support from the National Institute of Justice, the Michigan State University School of Criminal Justice (SCJ), through its Police Staffing Observatory (PSO), is seeking to address the most critical police staffing issues. The SCJ has long provided evidence-based assistance to law enforcement on a wide range of policing issues. The PSO is a globally trusted source for innovative workforce planning and outreach. We are examining the contemporary police staffing experience and developing actionable lessons on police workforce management.
We need your help. A core task of our current work is a nationally representative survey of police agencies, administered in partnership with the University of North Florida. This survey seeks information on your workforce, recruitment and selection, and retention and turnover. Your answers are critical to helping police agencies nationwide address staffing issues on which police work most depends.
Please complete this survey promptly. If you have any questions about it or our larger body of work, please feel free to contact me at jwilson@msu.edu.
Many thanks for your time and support.
Sincerely, 
Jeremy M. Wilson, Ph.D.
Director and Professor, Police Staffing Observatory