Personally i think it's a good idea to add a departments type for dmprofile, now you can enter a department name, why not create a department type that is included as default in the core – Marco van den Oever

Then be able to select the departments through dropdown.

<!--- departments.cfc --->

<cfcomponent name="departments" extends="farcry.core.packages.types.types" output="false" displayname="Departments" hint="This utility allows you to administer departments." bObjectBroker="true" lObjectBrokerWebskins="display*">

<cfproperty ftSeq="1" ftFieldset="General Details" name="title" type="string" fttype="string" default="" ftLabel="Title" hint="Title." ftValidation="required" />

<cffunction name="getDepartments" access="public" output="false"
returntype="query">
        <cfset var q = queryNew("value,name") />

        <cfquery datasource="#application.dsn#" name="q">
        SELECT objectid AS value, title AS name
        FROM departments
        ORDER BY title
        </cfquery>

        <cfreturn q />
</cffunction>

</cfcomponent>

<!--- departments.cfm --->

<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="true">
<cfimport taglib="/farcry/core/tags/formtools" prefix="ft" />
<cfimport taglib="/farcry/core/tags/admin/" prefix="admin" />
<!--- set up page header --->
<admin:header title="Departments" />
<ft:objectAdmin
	title="Departments"
	typename="departments"
	ColumnList="title"
	SortableColumns="title"
	lFilterFields=""
	sqlorderby="datetimelastUpdated desc" />
<admin:footer />
<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="false">

<!--- adjusted code for department field in webtop/admin/users --->

<cfproperty
 ftSeq="32"
 ftFieldset="Organisation"
 name="department"
 type="string"
 hint="Profile object department"
 required="no"
 default=""
 ftLabel="Department"
 ftType="list"
 ftRenderType="dropdown"
 ftListData="getDepartments"
 ftListDataTypename="departments" />