Chapter 14. THE SPECIAL CASE OF PUBLIC SECTOR POLICE AND FIRE SELECTION
Gerald V. Barrett, Dennis Doverspike, Candice M. Young
Selection for public safety jobs can be characterized as high stakes and extremely litigious. Creating test batteries for public safety jobs requires that a practitioner deal with political pressures, unions, lawyers, escalating costs, and reduced budgets. There is also the high cost of a mistake: selecting the wrong police officer or firefighter can potentially have a disastrous impact on public safety and welfare. This makes public safety selection an exciting area, because assessment professionals are called on to apply their full knowledge of the testing enterprise within significant practical constraints. In this chapter, ...
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