Promotional Handbook Guide for Police / Law Enforcement: Oral Boards and Scenarios
By Michael Wood
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About this ebook
When it comes to promotion time we all are looking for an advantage. That advantage is here. This is the fresh and up to date advice of an active police manager that just completed the process for the highest civil service rank in the Baltimore Police Department.
This guide is not all of the theoretical information that you find in the guides that are out there, which are not written by real police and do not understand what really goes into the boards and what we really need to know. All of the fluff has been taken out, just the facts, the tricks, and guidance.
I only took the test once for each promotion and I am passing the lessons that I learned, good and bad, on to you. I go over what to expect from the oral boards, the mindset that you need, how you need to appear, and I provide the most extensive benchmarks for 21 scenarios. The scenarios are the true gem of this publication. No matter what level of policing you are on, these scenarios are sure to help you out, not just in testing but in practical application.
Step by step on what to do with a new shift or squad, how to handle various administrative, personnel, routine, and tactical situations. What do you do if you are left in charge and there is an active shooter that is barricaded? What do you do when you find out your officer was just involved in a domestic incident? What do you do when an EEOC incident occurs on your shift? I tell you step by step along with many more situations.
If you are in an agency that has oral boards in the promotional process or if you just want to be a better supervisor, this is for you.
Michael Wood
Michael Wood is a freelance journalist and proofreader living in Newcastle. As a journalist he covered many crime stories throughout Sheffield, gaining first-hand knowledge of police procedure. He also reviews books for CrimeSquad, a website dedicated to crime fiction.
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Promotional Handbook Guide for Police / Law Enforcement - Michael Wood
Promotional Handbook Guide for Police / Law Enforcement – Oral Boards and Scenarios
By Michael A. Wood Jr.
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2012 Michael A. Wood Jr.
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Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Chapter 1: The Oral Board
• Chapter 2: Mindset
• Chapter 3: Resources
• Chapter 4: General Information
• Chapter 5: The Inbox
• Chapter 6: The Speech
• Chapter 7: Interview Questions & Scenarios
• Chapter 8: Memorization
• Chapter 9: The Oral Board Scenarios
• Chapter 10: Inbox Scenario
• Chapter 11: New Shift Low Performance Administrative Scenario
• Chapter 12: New Shift Deficiency Administrative Scenario
• Chapter 13: New Shift Introduction Administrative Scenario
• Chapter 14: New Shift Delinquent Reports Administrative Scenario
• Chapter 15: New Shift Introduction 2 Administrative Scenario
• Chapter 16: Corruption Personnel Issues Scenario
• Chapter 17: EEOC Personnel Issues Scenario
• Chapter 18: EEOC 2 Personnel Issues Scenario
• Chapter 19: Alcohol / Drugs Personnel Problem Scenario
• Chapter 20: Domestic Violence Personnel Problem Scenario
• Chapter 21: Performance Issues Personnel Problem Scenario
• Chapter 22: Juvenile Problem Routine Situation Scenario
• Chapter 23: Robbery Problem Routine Situation Scenario
• Chapter 24: Shooting / Crime Scene protection Routine Situation Scenario
• Chapter 25: Use of Force Routine Situation Scenario
• Chapter 26: Active Shooter, Hostage, Barricade Tactical Situation Scenario
• Chapter 27: Bomb Threat / Explosion Tactical Situation Scenario
• Chapter 28: Hazmat Tactical Situation Scenario
• Chapter 29: Barricade Tactical Situation Scenario
Foreword
This guide is the oral board portion of a complete guide that I wrote for the promotional process in the Baltimore Police Department. While the written portion of police promotional testing is unique to the rules and laws of a particular jurisdiction, the elements of the oral board are relatively universal. When you partake in the written portion of your promotional testing, study hard and integrate those local policies and laws into this guide. While I am speaking from a Baltimore Police Department perspective, the vast majority of everything will apply to any agency.
While I was with my first and only squad as a Sergeant, in the Eastern District, there was a moment when I was sitting with my Lieutenant discussing various aspects of policing, as we often did. This particular Lieutenant, although I have been with many supervisors that I respected and some that I loathed, remains the member of the department that I respect the most. We came upon the subject of who on our shift would make Sergeant on the upcoming test. The Lieutenant began naming a few potential candidates, many of whom would have made excellent Sergeants. I laughed at him and stated that there was no way any of them would make Sergeant, because they were either aggressive Eastern District style (i.e. real police) police, more concerned with the art of their craft then getting promoted, or they simply lacked the initiative, intelligence, and / or desire.
The Lieutenant made attempts in roll call to provide practice test questions and provide a level of education to prepare the shift as a whole. While preparing one of the practice tests he wrote a question; which four things constitute an arrest? He asked me how many officers would get this basic question right; I guessed none and was right once again. The correct answer is (an intent to arrest, real or pretended authority, detention of person, detention is understood by person). I continued to doubt that questions would be answered correctly because I felt that the environment of the Eastern, and the department as a whole, had become so arrest oriented and not conviction oriented that officers became skilled in how to arrest versus how to convict. We lost that professionalism and the Lieutenant and I were too small, too unimportant to change that.
The Sergeant’s test came and went with few officers passing the written let alone getting through the oral and being promotable. There was one officer however; that I thought would make a good Sergeant. He had the courage to consistently stand up for the right thing, instead of following the status quo, and was a very effective covert leader. I saw myself in him in that manner, because I always viewed myself in the same mold, which has gotten me in plenty of trouble with some supervisors, but especially as a Sergeant that is our role. It is the Sergeant’s role to speak up for their officers and stand firm to accomplish the right thing.
It was around this time that I began to realize that it is also the Sergeant’s role, my role, to lead those types of officers in their training in the promotional process. It was our failure that none of those officers on that shift were promoted; it was us who let them down. Sure, I did it on my own without any help from supervisors, but that certainly was no excuse for me to expect the same. For far too long, information has been protected by successful supervisors in this department, we all know it. Those that knew how to get through the testing seemed to protect that information and give it only to those