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Assessment of incident report writing skills and problem-solving ability designed for use in selecting and placing police officers.

The SSPO (Sigma Survey for Police Officers) test helps evaluate the candidate's skills in two critical areas:

The Incident Report Writing section helps evaluate the candidate's ability to write effective reports by assessing spelling, grammar, and vocabulary skills.

The Problem Solving section helps measure the candidate's use of appropriate judgment by presenting scenarios requiring a deicision by a police officer. Containing job-specific items, the SSPO test provides a relevant, reliable tool to help select and place qualified police officers.

How to Use The SSPO

Police Chiefs and hiring managers can use the SSPO assessment to help:

Select candidates with the practical problem-solving ability required to solve on-the-job problems arising in police incidents and to act appropriately and with sound judgment.

Select candidates with the skills to write meaningful, credible incident reports that may become permanent records in investigations and court proceedings.

Key Features of the SSPO

Test items have been carefully selected for job relevance, increasing the instrument's acceptability to candidates and employers and its ability to withstand legal challenges.

Easty to read results compare candidates to a large database of police officer candidates.

 

Norms

The SSPO test was normed on a contemporary sample of 1,413 job candidates applying for the position of police offier in various North American police forces. The sample consisted of 524 females and 808 males.

Scales Reports

The SSPO overall score is expressed as a percentile for quick comparison to other police officer candidates. The overall score is based on the scores on the following sections:

Total Writing Aptitude - Spelling, Vocabulary, Language Usage

Police Officer Problem Solving

 

Test administration by hard-copy paper & pencil or computer with hand or computer scoring, not online internet administration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

*SSPO is a copyright held by Six Sigma Assessment Systems, Inc.