A Leader's Guide to Applicant and Recruitment Testing

Numerous law enforcement agencies and academies struggle to recruit, graduate, and retain qualified candidates, and to mitigate injuries. At the same time, some applicant and academy physical ability assessments are outdated, or not accurately validated, and can result in disparate impact, further limiting the pool of recruits and increasing risk to agencies. Therefore, optimizing applicant physical ability assessment, academy training practices, and academy physical ability exit standards is critical. Rather than being a legal primer on the topic, this presentation will cover the larger underlying principles of test development via an extremely practical perspective with the law enforcement leader/executive in mind. Participants will leave with actionable information in this topic area.