Membership Eligibility
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Please note:
Any person who is interested in policing and has completed a 4-year college degree program and agrees to PERF's principles is eligible to join PERF. What membership category they fall into is determined by the below criteria.
The PERF Daily Clips are exclusively a benefit for PERF members. If you would like to receive the PERF Daily Clips, please consider submitting an application to join PERF.
The principles that guide PERF are that:
1. Research, experimentation, and exchange of ideas through public discussion and debate are paths for development of a professional body of knowledge about policing;
2. Substantial and purposeful academic study is a prerequisite for acquiring, understanding and adding to the body of knowledge of professional police management;
3. Maintenance of the highest standards of ethics and integrity is imperative to the improvement of policing;
4. The police must, within the limits of the law, be responsible and accountable to citizens as the ultimate source of police authority; and
5. The principles embodied in the Constitution are the foundation of policing.
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP ($300/calendar year)
To qualify for general membership a person must:
- Be the executive head of a municipal, county or state-funded agency that provides general police services. The agency must have at least 100 full-time employees, or serve a population of 50,000 or more people.
- Hold at least a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university.
General members will receive the PERF Daily Clips once their application has been approved.
SUBSCRIBING MEMBERSHIP ($160/calendar year)
If you do not qualify for general membership, you may qualify as a subscribing member, provided you have at least a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university.
Subscribing members include:
- Executive heads of law enforcement agencies that fall below the size threshold for general membership.
- Members of law enforcement agencies of any size who hold a position other than the executive head of the agency.
- Members of other criminal justice system agencies.
- Members of institutes, research bureaus, law enforcement associations, criminal justice planning councils and other organizations engaged in criminal justice research and improving criminal justice administration.
- Professors of accredited colleges and universities who teach or conduct research in the field of criminal justice. People who have contributed significantly to improving the administration of justice and community safety.
Subscribing members will receive the PERF Daily Clips once their application has been approved.
