The ORPAT (Oregon Physical Agility test) was modified for this department. Normally, one element of the ORPAT is a Push/Pull machine. This machine simulates your ability to push/Pull and control 80lbs of force.

The reasoning they gave for it’s ommission was that it was failing too many of the female applicants. In a regular ORPAT your time on the course ends and is recorded after the Push/Pull machine and then you do a dummy drag that isn’t included in the time.

With the ommision of the Push/Pull the time stops after the dummy drag.

In any case I passed today wih a time of 3min 40sec. I think that taking out the Push/Pull machine saved me about 40 seconds.

So far Washington County Sherrif is the only department that has ommitted this part of the ORPAT.