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Procedural Considerations in Security Personnel Selection (From Personality Assessment in Police Psychology: A 21st Century Perspective, P 299-316, 2010, Peter A. Weiss, ed. - see NCJ-231933)

NCJ Number
231945
Author(s)
William U. Weiss
Date Published
2010
Length
18 pages
Annotation
This chapter examines procedural considerations as regards police personnel selection.
Abstract
The chapter presents an easy to follow method by which police departments can develop an appropriate personality-screening program to remove unsuitable police officer candidates. In many jurisdictions, the law requires psychological evaluations of police officers, and in some areas, the law specifies the method. This chapter presents information for police departments to consider when seeking the assistance and/or use of police psychologists for police officer psychological evaluations. Other areas that police departments should consider when conducting police officer evaluations are the type of information that the psychologist should obtain, being aware of the issues surrounding informed consent, and having a standard model laid out for the mental status examination. The chapter also presents information on the various tests available for personality assessments. These include the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2), the Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI), the Inwald Personality Inventory, the Matrix-Predictive Uniform Law Enforcement Selection Evaluation (M-PULSE) Inventory, and the California Psychological Inventory. Other areas of psychological evaluations that need to be considered are the scoring of the examinations, interpretation of the results, issuing the report, communicating the results of the assessment, and follow-up on hiring decisions. References