Police
Promotion Exams and Assessment Centers Custom Designed for Your Law
Enforcement Agency
Low Cost - Secure - Professional
Who we are and what we do best - and how we will help
your agency.
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Our Focus in Writing Your Department's Promotion Exams and Assessment Center Exercises
We
offer low cost and legally defensible written exams and assessment
center services, and we specialize in quick delivery of written
promotion exams, in-basket and other exercises that are also customized
to your agency. Nothing is off-the-shelf. No questions are ever re-used
for your promotion exams.
We have an attorney to write and review
police promotion test questions from all legal source books and
guidelines.
Our clients are typically small to
medium (under 100 sworn personnel) law enforcement agencies without an
established promotion list. When an unexpected opening occurs in
the supervisory or management ranks, small agencies need to move quick
to fill the position. We are the ones to fill that need.
Prices are very reasonable, geared
to small agency budgets. A custom textbook exam written for your agency
can cost just $3,975.
Questions we receive most often:
How
much time is needed?
What
are the costs?
What
material do we have to send to you?
Where
do I send an RFP?
We
need to get going right away, what do we do first?
Our Answers:
We will create your custom, written police promotional exams from scratch, we do not re-use
questions from any prior exams. For this reason at least 60 days is
needed.
We will need your agency to furnish 2 (two) copies of
your policy manual, legal guidelines, SOPs, etc - along with any copies
of relevant and recent job descriptions and skills analysis available.
Even if you only choose to give a textbook exam and not draw questions
from these items, we still need them in order to write questions that
can be validated to the position in your agency.
We will also need access to 2 (two) department experts in the
position being tested for, one who is currently holding or has held the
rank or position, and one who is supervising or has supervised that rank
or position. This should not normally be the same person, except for
very small agencies.
Costs For Written Agency Promotion Exams
The cost of your completely custom
written exam is computed as follows;
100 question exam, textbook(s) only, 10 candidates or fewer -
$3,975.
100 question exam, textbook(s) and department policy,
legal guidelines, etc.
10 candidates or fewer - $5,400.
150
question exam, textbook(s) and department policy, legal guidelines, etc.
10 candidates or fewer - $6,900.
200 question exam,
textbook(s) and department policy, legal guidelines, etc.
10
candidates or fewer - $8,600.
Same as above, from 11 - 30
candidates taking exam, add $90.00 per candidate. For over 30 candidates
taking exam, or further information or any special circumstances,
call
us for special pricing.
Because each of our police
agency promotion exams are custom
written, not "off the shelf," none of the questions you receive will be
duplicated in any future exam given by your agency.
Please email
any PDF or Word formatted RFP to this email address, please do not
change the subject line;
RFP for Police Promotional Processes.
Trying to decide which textbook to use for a police promotion exam? Speak to the experts!
We've written thousands of questions from hundreds of textbooks,
policy and procedure manuals and legal guidelines - write or
call us today for advice and information -
Contact Us
We'll discuss your
department's goals and you'll decide which textbook is best!
Review our extensive list of recommended police promotional
textbooks.
How To Get Started on Your Agency's Promotion Process
A
fantastic guide for small police agencies and promotional testing can be
found in a Police Chief magazine article, "A
Promotional Process for the Smaller Police Agency."
We agree with
and endorse the procedures and objectives outlined in this article
wholeheartedly, and comply with the requirements and objectives shown
for written exams, oral boards and assessment center testing.
Before you choose any non-police titles for testing, such as "trendy"
leadership or business titles not specifically written for law
enforcement use, remember that job-relatedness and content validity are
extremely important topics to consider so that your agency's exams will
be 100% legally defensible.
We believe in using only long-proven
textbooks from well established law enforcement supervision and
management experts to create the custom exams for your department.
We work with our own experienced staff, and Subject Matter Experts
(SME) from your agency to analyze and understand the rank and position
requirements, then depending on your needs we will write anywhere from 50 - 200 job-specific and
content-valid questions.
With our custom exams, unlike using
typical "off-the-shelf" multiple choice
exams, you will not be testing study habits, memorization and
test-taking skills, but will be testing for acquired knowledge and the
ability to apply it in specific circumstances.
Our exams help
determine the candidates who understand and can apply the
important concepts most important to the position - making the exam very
content-valid and job related and highly legally defensible.
When
the entire promotional process is complete, you will have a clear
understanding of each candidate's strengths, weaknesses, decision-making
ability and knowledge of the most important concepts that relate
directly to being successful in the new position.
Attorney Written Legal Exam Questions
There is no better judge of knowledge for law enforcement
supervision than legal exam questions from your local and state
laws and ordinances.
Much of what a supervisor does is
to determine if the officers under his or her command are acting
lawfully.
That is why we offer something that most other
companies do not - we will have our attorney write and
validate all legal questions on your exams - there is
no better protection available to ensure legal exactness and
sufficiency.
