By Madeleine McCormick
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DES MOINES, IA -- The Des Moines Police Department is joining a national initiative to recruit 30% more women to be in the field by 2030.
Currently women make up only 12% of sworn police officers and less than 3% of police leadership in the U.S., numbers that have remained stagnant for decades.
-- Policing Project, NYU School of Law.
The Des Moines Police Department jumped on board.
"It's something that caught our attention early on as they started pushing it out." Des Moines Police Sergeant Paul Parizek says it's an attainable goal for the department. "I think the reason for that is, we've got the right people in the right places to make that happen."