Prepared under authority of the Economic Opportunity Act, this New Careers report offers suggestions on how police departments can improve relations with inner city disadvantaged residents (usually minority groups) by using hard core unemployed community members to close the information gap on both sides, provide community services, relieve the police manpower shortage, and provide career employment. Conventional police aide recruitment methods are judged and found lacking, mainly for failure to attract persons--notably those with police records--who are most likely to have acceptance and influence among the hard core. Steps in training and job development are outlined, followed by a successful police community relations aide program in the Los Angeles Police Department. (LY)