become a police officer

I recieved a letter today to call and schedule a preliminary interview with Washington County Sherrif’s office. I have scheduled my interview for June 4th. Now I need to prep myself for the specifics of the WashingtonCounty interview.

To update from last time-I did well on the Written exam for Tigard PD on May 2nd. I have not recieved the scores back yet, but I know I did well. I have not gotten anything less than 95% on any tests I have taken so far. I felt good about the Tigard test.

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.

I. Hillsboro PD- doing my background check
-Test scores: Math 100%, Reading 96%, Grammar 95%, Writing 100%
Agility test final time 4min 36sec (need less than 5:30 to pass)
-I’ve had my oral interview as well as command staff interview

II. WA County Sherrif- Passed Written exam, doing agility test today
Written test scores: Math 95%, Reading 96%, Grammar 90%, Writing 98% (didn’t study for this test since I did well the last time, probably a mistake. I will study/practice again for next test)

III. Tigard PD- scheduled to take written exam on Sat May 2nd

IV. Cornelius PD- Submitted initial Application, still waiting

V. Portland PD- Taking written exam next hiring session in July