• EKG 
• Treadmill stress test 
• Chest X-Ray 
• Cholesterol test 
• Various other blood tests 
Chief or Sheriff Interview- LET Prep 
Once a candidate has passed the written test, physical agility test, oral board interview, group assessment 
center/B-Pad assessment, and background investigation, if the department is still interested in the candidate, 
the candidate is made a ‘conditional offer of employment.’ In laymen’s terms, it means the department is 
interested in the candidate, but still wants the candidate to go through the psych eval and medical physical. 
Due to the intrusiveness of those two tests and results, the department must prove they are interested in the 
candidate enough to make a conditional offer of employment, all of which is dependent on the results of 
those two tests, of course. 
If the candidate shows no issues with the psych eval or medical/physical, the candidate is then called in to 
the Chief or Sheriff’s office (depending on the department) for an interview. After the interview and all of 
the above testing areas are finished, the Chief or Sheriff will most likely call a meeting with the background 
investigator and the psychologist who completed psych eval and go over the final candidates one by one. 
From this meeting a list is created of whom the department will hire. An ‘informal’ type of interview is 
informal in nature since the ‘top cop’ (a.k.a. Chief or Sheriff) is looking to meet a potential new police officer. 
 
Photos above, from left to right:  Medford Police Department patrol vehicle, Jackson County Sheriff’s Office K-9 patrol vehicle, and 
Medford Police Department BearCat SWAT vehicle. Law Enforcement agencies across Oregon participate in the Annual Lock-In 
Event. The above vehicles parked these vehicles for viewing at Lock-In. 
Mentoring and Retaining 
All too often, departments place everything into the LET Prep, and then after the candidate is offered 
the job, accepts, and starts the dream job of a police officer, this new officer can be lost and forgotten in 
the shuffle. Departments must ensure that mentoring and retaining occurs. Mentoring can be completed 
through proper supervision from the top down and ensuring first-level supervisors are responsible for those 
they supervise. A good supervisor can make the difference between an officer disliking or loving their job. 
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