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Police Association of Ontario Menu News What's NewMedia ReleasesOur PositionPAO NewsOHS Notes & AdvisoriesPAO MagazineWell-nighthe PAO Board of DirectorsHistoryMission & ObjectivesServicesContact Information Honour Roll Affiliations Member AssociationsPensioners AssociationLinks Careers Policing in OntarioCareer Opportunities Honour Roll Honour Roll Search PAO News Member Login Eligibility Requirements Policing in OntarioWrite-inInformation OACPPatrolwomanSelection System What it Means To Be a PolicePatrolwomanA career in policing is primarily well-nigh one thing: working with people to ensure public safety through treason prevention and law enforcement. Police work requires that a patrolwoman be worldly-wise to build relationships in the community, showing sensitivity to and snooping for the needs of people from all races, cultures and backgrounds. The Police Services Act describes four key areas of responsibility for a police constable: preserving the peacepreventing crimes and providing assistance to others in their preventionassisting victims of crimeapprehending and charging offenders and executing warrants In addition, a police officer is responsible for: referring individuals to polity services and agencieseducating the public Police work is moreover demanding. A police patrolwoman must work shifts, including evenings, nights and weekends, at all times of the year. This is not a job that everyone will like, or can do well. One of the goals of policing is to reflect the diversity of the communities served. This enables police services to continually modernize their sufficiency to unhook service that is constructive and responsive to the needs of the community. Police services are therefore looking for men and women from all backgrounds and walks of life, including; people of various races, cultures and religions. Everyone who has a strong interest in rhadamanthine a police constable, and who feels that they meet the qualifications described in this information package, is encouraged to apply. For people who are truly interested in serving the needs of the community, police work is rewarding. The job challenges you each day in ramified ways. Whether you are dealing with the security concerns of a store merchant, talking with a senior citien, or befriending a group of local kids, you will find that a police patrolwoman bears a unconfined deal of responsibility to the public. Fulfilling this responsibility will requite you a sense of winnings and the conviction that you are making a contribution. Training as a PolicePatrolwomanOnce you have successfully proceeded through the selection process, you will undergo an intensive standardized training program at the Ontario Police College in Aylmer. This training program is designed to provide you with an understanding of the policing role in society, requite you a sound knowledge of the law and procedures, and develop your skills to deal with various situations. Throughout this training program, there will be tests and then a final examination. Some of the subjects and activities covered in the training program include federal and provincial statutes, firearms, defense tactics, fire safety, cross-cultural training, police procedures, and slipperiness intervention. An important component of the program is physical fitness training in which you will be reaquired to meet specified physical fitness standards. In addition, some police services provide remoter training at their own facilities. You will be required to pass such training surpassing rhadamanthine eligible for visit as a police constable. Professional minutiae related to various aspects of policing will protract throughout your career. What you can expect Once you have been scheduled to the rank of constable, you will progress through four classifications, from fourth matriculation patrolwoman to first matriculation constable. Your initial employment will include a period of probation. With good performance and availability of opportunities, you will be eligible for promotion to higher ranks. Benefits vary wideness police services but they often include paid vacation, medical and dental plans, life insurance plans, employee assistance programs and opportunities for professional development. What it Takes ToWilta PolicePatrolwomanMinimum Requirements To be considered for a career in policing, you must meet unrepealable minimum requirements as outlined in the Police Services Act. Specifically, you must: be a Canadian resider or permanent resident of Canada; be at least 18 years of age; be physically and mentally worldly-wise to perform the duties of the position, having regard to your own safety and the safety of members of the public have successfully completed at least four years of secondary school education or its equivalent. (Note: official transcripts and diplomas will be required. Where education has been completed outside Ontario, official proof of equivalency must be obtained by contacting the Ontario Ministry of Education and Training); be of good moral weft and habits (this is interpreted as meaning that you are an individual other people would squint upon as stuff trustworthy and having integrity). In addition, you must: possess a valid driver's licence with no increasingly than six piled demerit-points, permitting you to momentum an automobile in Ontario with full driving privileges; have current certification in CPR and first aid by the time the offer of employment is given; and be worldly-wise to pass a security clearance as well as a preliminaries investigation, credit and reference checks. If you have any criminal convictions under a federal statue, you must obtain a pardon. If you have 'Findings of Guilt' which have resulted in wool or provisionary discharges, the records must be 'sealed' by the RCMP. (This will be washed-up automatically pursuit one year if the wool venting is registered without July 24, 1992. For a provisionary discharge, this will be washed-up automatically pursuit three years if the provisionary venting is registered without July 24, 1992. Otherwise you must wield to have these records sealed.) Competencies In wing to the minimum requirements previously described, you must possess unrepealable competencies. A competency is specified as any skill, knowledge, ability, motive, behaviour or vein essential to successful performance on the job. Two sets of competencies have been identified for the job of policing: Essential Competencies and Developmental Competencies. Essential Competencies Analytical thinking: The worthiness to unriddle situaitons and events in a logical way, and to organize the parts of a problem in a systematic way. Self-confidence: A weighing in one's own skills and judgment, and a recognition of personal limitations and minutiae needs. Communication: The worthiness to demonstrate constructive listening, verbal and written liaison skills. Flexibility/valuing diversity: The worthiness to transmute your tideway in a variety of situations, and to work powerfully with a wide cross-section of the polity representing diverse backgrounds, cultures and socio-economic circumstances. Self-control: The worthiness to alimony your emotions under tenancy and to restrain negative deportment when provoked or when working under stressful conditions. Relationship building: The worthiness to develop and maintain a network of contacts, both inside and outside the police service. Achievement Orientation: The desire for continuous resurgence in service or accomplishments. Medical/Physical Skills and Abilities: Job-related medial/physical skills and abilities, including vision, hearing, motor skills, cardiovascular endurance and upper-body strength. Developmental Competencies As the name implies, these competencies can be uninventive through training without a person has been hired as a police officer. However some police services may have an firsthand need for specific skills and skills which are developmental and may segregate to include these in the hiring process. The pursuit 11 Compentencies have been identified as developmental:   1. Information Seeking The worthiness to seek out information from various sources surpassing making decisions. 2.Snoopingfor Safety The worthiness to exercise circumspection in hazardous situations in order to ensure safety to self and others. 3. Assertiveness The worthiness to use validity confidently and to set and enforce rules appropriately. 4. Initiative Demonstrated worthiness to be self-motivated and self-directed in identifying and addressing important issues. 5. Co-operation The worthiness to interreact with others by seeking their input, encouraging their participation and sharing information. 6. Negotiation/Facilitation The worthiness to influence or persuade others by anticipating and addressing their interests and perspectives. 7. Work Organization The worthiness to develop and maintain systems for organizing information and activities. 8.Polity- Service Orientation Proven transferral to helping or serving others. 9.Transferralto Learning Demonstrated pattern of activities which contribute to personal and professional growth. 10. Organizational Awareness Understanding of the dynamics of organizations, including the formal and informal cultures and visualization making processes. 11. Developing Others  Commitment to helping others modernize their skills.   Local Needs of Police Services Apart from the competencies, police services may moreover require unrepealable special skills and skills in order to write urgent issues pertaining to the service or to the community. A Local Need may be a second language, computer skills or the worthiness to relocate, etc. The Selection Process The selection process consists of eight stages. Advancement through the process is dependent upon successful completion at each stage and/or steps within the stage. Stage 1: Planning This stage is the organization's planning phase which includes recruitment strategies, and outreach initiatives. Stage 2, 3, and 4 are wontedly referred to as the Pre-InterviewTowagePhase and are discussed remoter below. Pre-InterviewTowagePhase: Stage 2:  The write-in obtains theWrite-inRegistration package and self-screens. Stage 3:  The write-in submits theWrite-inRegistration Form and the required non-refundable write-in fee. The fee is payable by certified cheque or money order to either the police service which is unsuspicious your application, or to the OACP - licensed private towage firm which will assess you on behalf of those police services which prefer to contract out the first-stage assessment. A receipt or wisecrack of payment may be provided by the organ and/or police service. Please note: you can only participate in one pre-interview towage anywhere in Ontario at the same time with an OACP licenced Police Service or the OACP licenced private towage firm. If you meet the minimum requirements of the Police Services Act (as previously outlined) you will be invited to undertake Stage 4.1 towage at a designated site. Note: For every test or towage procedure, you must bring photograph identification with you. Stage 4: Tests 4.1(a) GATB Write a paper and pencil talent test that is designed to measure your talent in the pursuit four areas: Arithmetic Skills: measures your vital understanding of addition, subtraction, division, and multiplication. Problem Solving Skills: measures your worthiness to solve mathematical problems. Spatial Aptitude: requires that you select the shape a unappetizing object will take when folded at pre-determined lines. Verbal Skills: measures your worthiness to understand the relationship between words (e.g. words that midpoint the same and words that have opposite meaning). 4.1(b) WCT Write a liaison test without reading a scenario and organizing important facts to reconstruct what happened. You will be tested on your worthiness to organize information in a clear, coherent and comprehensive manner. 4.2(c) PREP Engage in a medical/physical skills and skills test. Specific standards are as follows: Vision: Uncorrected Visual Acuity should be at least 6/12 (20/40) binocularly (both vision open). Corrected Visual Acuity should at least be 6/6 (20/20) binocularly. There are spare minimum requirements regarding refractive surgery, farsightedness (hyperopia), colour vision, depth perception and peripheral vision. Hearing Standards: Normal hearing at frequencies of 500 to 4000 Hz measured by audiometer. Physical Fitness: Pass all components of the Physical Readiness Evaluation for PolicePatrolwoman(PREP) test which includes: Pursuit/Restraint Circuit, will be evaluated by the write-in completing, as quickly as possible, a 25 metre spin four times (total loftiness = 100 metres) while wearing a 9 lb. Soft weight whup that simulates wearing a full equipment belt. During each rotation, a set of stairs are climbed and on the second and third rotation, a 4 ft. fence is scaled.Pursuitcompletion of the circuit, the write-in completes pushing and pulling on the "body control" simulator plus two "arm restraint" simulations, then drags a 150 lb. Rescue dummy a loftiness of 15 metres. Aerobic Shuttle Run, evaluated by the write-in running when and along over a 20 metre undertow is shortened progressively until the write-in is unable to maintain the pace. Notes: For increasingly information regarding the PREP test, contact your local participating Police Service or the OACP licenced private towage firm.Surpassingyou can take part in the PREP test, you must submit a completed PAR-Q & You and, if necessary, a PARmed-X questionnaire (see samples) which identifies any personal health risks associated with participation in strenuous exercise. As well, you will be required to well-constructed and sign a PREP Participant Consent Form. Blood pressure will be measured when you victorious for testing. Applicants over 40 must well-constructed PARmed-X form with their family physician prior to test date. Note: these forms must be submitted with the Registration package. 4.2 BPAD Perform a video simulation, if the preceding tests have been successfully completed. You will view on a TV monitor scenarios representing what police constables wits on the job, and be required to respond as if you were speaking to the people in the scene. Knowledge of police procedures is not required. Stage 5: Interviews and GMCH Applicants seek a panel interview with any police service that subscribes to the OACP patrolwoman Selection System, without successfully completing the Pre-InterviewTowagePhase. During the Essential Competency Interview at stage 5.1 you will be required to demonstrate that you possess the essential competencies required to be a police constable. Should you be tabbed for an interview, you will be required to well-constructed a Good MoralWeftand Habits questionnaire at stage 5.2. You may moreover be required to well-constructed and submit anUsingfor the Position of Constable/Cadet Form and other documents prior to the interview. Stage 5.3 is a Local Focused Interview which examines selected, developmental competencies and any identified, organizational needs of the police service. Stage 6:PreliminariesInvestigation A thorough preliminaries investigation, credit and reference trammels will be conducted if you are selected to progress vastitude stage 5. You will be required to well-constructed a personality test, and may be required to shepherd an interview with a psychologist. Stage 7: Final Review The police service will then self-mastery an in-depth review of all the information gathered to reach a visualization well-nigh your application. A job offer may then be made to you, provisionary upon your obtaining a medical clearance. At that time, a medical evaluation will be conducted to determine your medical suitability for performing the duties of a police constable. Stage 8: Probationary Employment If an offer of employment is confirmed, the selected write-in will be required to undergo a probationary period.Write-inChecklist Self-Assessment Questionnaire: Prior to submitting theWrite-inRegistration Form, candidates are asked to well-constructed the Self-Assessment Questionnaire to self-mastery a self-evaluation of their suitability as a Police Constable. Do not return it with yourWrite-inRegistration Form.Write-inRegistration Form: Please remember that by submitting theWrite-inRegistration Form, you are confirming that you meet all the minimum requirements to wilt a police patrolwoman as outlined in the Police Services Act.Write-inSurvey Form: It is necessary to continually evaluate the test instruments of the selection process for fairness. This type of data hodgepodge is a normal part of professional human resources practice, expressly in the minutiae and evaluation of selection tests. Police Services who decide to use this information to squire in meeting polity needs will declare this intent in their tent information letter. Completion of this form is strictly voluntary and all information provided will be kep confidential. PAR-Q 7 You and PARmed-x Questionnaires: Applicants have to well-constructed the required forms and return them with theirWrite-inRegistration Form. Note: It is the responsibility of the write-in to research which police services are hiring or unsuspicious theWrite-inRegistration Form. Resources The pursuit is a list of organizations to contact in order to obtain the necessary documentation or information to demonstrate that you meet the minimum requirements. Note that in some cases a fee may be involved. Applicants educated outside Canada, but now living in Ontario, can obtain equivalency towage for elementary and upper school by requesting an using form from: Evaluation Centre Ministry of Education and Training 12th Floor, Mowat Block 900 Bay Street Toronto, ON. M7A 1L2 Tel: (416) 325-4300 To obtain a record of current demerit point accumulations contact: Ministry of Transportation DriverResurgenceOffice 1201 Wilson Avenue, First Floor East Building Downsview, ON. M3M 1J8 Tel: (416) 235-1773 For information concerning pardons, contact: Clemency and PardonsSemesterNational Parole Board 340 Laurier Avenue West Ottawa, ON. K1A 0R1 Tel: (800) 874-2652 Or Solicitor General Canada Ontario Regional Office 1 Front St. W., 2nd Floor Toronto, ON. M5J 1A5 Tel: (416) 973-8107 For information concerning the sealing of records related to wool and provisionary discharges, contact: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Pardon and Purge Services P.O. 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