Pre-Employment Background Investigations for Public Safety Professionals

Foreword

If you are asking yourself, “Why a book on pre-employment background investigation is needed?” stop for a minute to consider your organizational life, reviewing all those who were employed and the behaviors and work performance you have observed over the years. It takes only a moment to see a face or remember a name of someone who caused you to ask, “How did that person ever get hired?”

Those early days were frustrating and clearly pointed out to Dr. Colaprete that a better method of hiring excellent employees required a more informed approach. Hiring is a multistep process, with candidates progressing to the next level, or being dropped ...