Custom Police Promotional Examinations for Smaller Departments
Precedent Assessment Group develops source controlled written promotional examinations based on an agency's approved policies, General Orders, legal materials, collective bargaining provisions, and supervisory resources. Each engagement is defined through a written scope identifying responsibilities, review stages, security controls, administration, scoring, reporting, and challenge support.
Built for agencies that need rigor without a large vendor contract
Smaller departments face the same operational, labor, security, and candidate challenge concerns as larger agencies, but often have fewer internal testing resources and smaller budgets. Precedent Assessment Group is a focused option for agencies seeking a clearly scoped, carefully documented examination service sized to their department, not a package built for a much larger organization.
Written promotional examinations, by rank.
Sergeant Examinations
Source-cited written examinations built from your General Orders and supervisory policies.
Lieutenant Examinations
Command-level policy interpretation and administrative judgment.
Detective Examinations
Investigations, evidence handling, and chain of custody procedures.
Other Supervisory or Command Examinations
Additional supervisory or command-level examinations, subject to scope review.
Deliverables depend on the agreed scope.
Final deliverables depend on the selected service scope and written agreement. Depending on the engagement, an agency may receive some or all of the following.
- Confirmed source list and version record
- Examination blueprint
- Source cited examination items
- Agency subject matter expert review
- Candidate instructions
- Proctor and administration guidance
- Secure answer key handling
- Electronic or otherwise approved scoring
- Candidate and agency reports
- Item analysis
- Defined candidate challenge review
- Examination disposition and retention instructions
A five-stage process, from consultation to closeout.
Not every engagement includes every activity listed below — the written proposal and client agreement define what is included in your project.
Preliminary Consultation
Rank, candidates, sources, schedule, administration, budget, and procurement requirements.
Written Proposal
Defined scope, deliverables, responsibilities, schedule, price, security, and payment milestones.
Secure Project Launch
Conflict screening, signed agreement, initial payment, authorized contacts, and controlled source intake.
Examination Development and Review
Source confirmation, blueprint approval, item development, qualified review, and agency subject matter expert participation as included in scope.
Administration, Scoring, and Closeout
Secure delivery, scoring, reporting, challenge support, retention, return, or destruction as defined by the agreement.
Defined access, documented handling.
Every engagement is built around defined access controls, documented source handling, and a clear separation between examination development and candidate coaching.
- Authorized personnel only
- Controlled source material intake
- Access restrictions
- Answer key separation
- Transfer and chain of custody documentation
- Approved technology
- Incident reporting responsibilities
- Retention and disposition requirements
- Human review of every scored item
- No confidential information accepted through the public website form
Share this with HR, legal counsel, or command staff.
Agency officials may download a concise capability statement to share with HR, legal counsel, purchasing, civil service, or command staff considering a promotional examination project.
Planning a promotional examination?
Tell us about the rank, anticipated candidate group, source materials, schedule, administration needs, and procurement requirements. We will use that information to determine whether the project fits our developing service model.