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Episode 822: Struggling With Recruitment? Listen to This! with Xenophon Gikas & Joana Torres

Street Cop Podcast

Street Cop Training

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4.9967 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On today's episode, Dennis speaks with Officer Xenophon Gikas and Joana Torres to discuss the common issues of recruitment and retention within the profession of law enforcement.

Today, Dennis, Xen and Joana discuss the challenges that departments face when recruiting, the causes of poor retention within an agency and keeping your men and women happy with consistent improvements and following through with your mission.

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0:00.0

You cannot throw enough money at people in today's generation that will entice them to come work for you.

0:06.7

I promise you that. Nobody's taking the job. I think they were advertising like a quarter million

0:11.4

dollars a year in Minneapolis.

0:14.3

I think they had two people apply to that position.

0:16.8

I read it like six months ago.

0:18.5

No, thank you.

0:19.5

For a nobody, immediately, for a quarter million a year almost probably double your salary what you're making there and don't you have to comment on that maybe even more two and a half times your salary right you still won't take it no thank. So how much more of a fucking clear clue do you need that what these cops, these men and women in blue, actually want? want. and Hey guys welcome this episode of the Street Cop Training Podcast,

0:54.0

I'm your host, founder and CEO of Street Cop Training.

0:56.0

My name is Dennis Benino,

0:58.0

and they have with us

1:00.0

two police officers that reached out to me via social media and I figure we could turn this into

1:07.0

maybe a beneficial podcast for most people who are struggling with recruitment issues

1:12.1

because they think they asked me for a class on

1:14.9

how do we go somewhere to learn how to recruit people?

1:18.2

So I said, maybe it's a good idea

1:19.9

that we just jump on board and have a discussion

1:22.4

and see if something comes out of it, instead of just wasting our energy. we just name, Guycast? How do you say Guycast? Geekist.

1:34.0

Gekest.

1:35.0

Gekest.

1:36.0

Okay, there you go. And Joanna Torres.

1:38.0

So, maybe you guys should take a minute to introduce yourselves and how we ended up here together.

1:43.4

Sure. So my name is Zen Geekus. I'm originally from Los Angeles. Moved out to Dallas, Texas here about a year ago.

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