Recruitment and Selection Process for Police Officers

Recruitment and Selection Process for Police Officers

Introduction

Selection and recruitment procedures in any organization are very important. This is simply because these procedures involves establishing, building, developing and evolving a workforce that is efficient, honest, dedicated and cooperative. Therefore, it cans also be said that these selection and recruitment procedures actually decide the fate and future of the organization. Hence, every sector, discipline or field makes sure that the evaluation and assessment stages in the recruitment procedures are effective with respect to filtering only the best of the employees. This is perhaps one of the reasons why the recruitment procedures of the police department are considered as one of the toughest, hardest and harshest selection procedures of the country.

Discussion

Recruitment and Selection Process

The recruitment procedure can be categorized into the following steps

Eligibility Criteria

The minimum age of eligibility for applying is 21 years. In addition, the applicant should be a U.S. High School graduate or certified by California High School Proficiency Examination. The substitution to the high school criterion is a U.S accredited college degree of duration of two or four years. The requirement in Los Angeles for a Police Officer candidate is his United States citizenship. Whereas, a non-citizen who is a permanent resident, in accordance with the USCIS (U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services) is also eligible (Gaines & Victor, 1992).

Written Examination

This examination is meant to test the aspects of an individual that includes his information ordering, spatial orientation, inductive and deductive reasoning, problem sensitivity, English language oral and written fluency etc. Medical Examination

The applicants have to must meet the physical and medical requirements by proposed by the Port Authority Office of Medical Services. These include,

A BMI less than 30. Otherwise, the candidate will be referred for further testing to assess ...