United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2003-06-13 monographic deposited born digital 66 p. GA 1.13:GAO-03-658 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-658 P0b002ee180377e72 f:d03658 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-658 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-658 GAO-03-658 Law enforcement agencies Law enforcement personnel Police Retirement benefits Strategic planning Personnel recruiting Hiring policies Labor force Compensation Other Written Product A07161 Officials at several federal uniformed police forces in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area have raised concerns that disparities in pay and retirement benefits have caused their police forces to experience difficulties in recruiting and retaining officers. These concerns have increased during the past year with the significant expansion of the Federal Air Marshal Program, which has created numerous relatively high-paying job opportunities for existing federal uniformed police officers and reportedly has lured many experienced officers from their uniformed police forces. GAO's objectives were to (1) determine the differences that exist among selected federal uniformed police forces regarding entry-level pay, retirement benefits, and types of duties; (2) provide information on the differences in turnover rates among these federal uniformed police forces, including where officers who separated from the police forces went and the extent to which human capital flexibilities were available and used to address turnover; and (3) provide information on possible difficulties police forces may have faced recruiting officers and the extent to which human capital flexibilities were available to help these forces recruit officers. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-658/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-658.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-658/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-658.pdf GAO-03-658 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-03-658 Other Written Product GAO-03-658; Federal Uniformed Police: Selected Data on Pay, Recruitment, and Retention at 13 Police Forces in the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Area; Law enforcement agencies Law enforcement personnel Police Retirement benefits Strategic planning Personnel recruiting Hiring policies Labor force Compensation Volume 116 Page 2135 116 Stat. 2135 Public Law 107-296