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Capture every required document, prompt, page limit, format, signature, routing step, and deadline before drafting.
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Detective
Assessment Center
Five job-relevant exercises. One consolidated picture of how you investigate, prioritize, communicate, and follow through.
Practice with your package
Prepare for your Detective process.
Oral boards use scored-question allowances. Detective and Sergeant exercise reviews use AI preparation requests; live witness interviews, employee role-plays and briefing capture use voice minutes. Invited testers can continue using their assigned access codes.
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Add your agency’s investigative rules.
The exercises use national principles and fictional facts. They cannot know your current case-assignment rules, evidence procedures, prosecutor protocols, unit SOPs, or jurisdiction-specific legal updates. Build that layer separately before test day.
Use the local-study framework →Application packet preparation
The process may begin before you enter the room.
A letter of interest, résumé, qualifications packet, or supporting documents may become the panel’s first evidence of your preparation. Build the submission for the Detective process your agency actually announced—not a generic template.
Build the evidence map
Match each stated duty or qualification to specific experience, training, results, and lessons you can honestly support.
Write the letter
Explain why this role, why you are ready, what evidence supports the claim, and what contribution you intend to make.
Audit the packet
Check completeness, accuracy, tone, file names, attachments, readability, and compliance against the official instructions.
Qualifications coverage check
Do not make the reviewer infer what you never stated.
- Required duty or qualificationEvidence identified
- Relevant training or certificationVerified and current
- Accomplishment or contributionSpecific result stated
- Missing or weak areaAddress honestly
Current instructions control. Never fabricate experience, alter credentials, include confidential case information, or upload restricted agency material. Use authorized, de-identified facts and preserve your own voice.
Five connected exercises
Prepare for the work, not only the board.
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01Live beta
Oral Board
A one-to-six-question voice interview with no follow-up questions during the board and structured coaching afterward.
02Practice beta
Writing Exercise
Analyze an investigative packet and produce a clear, complete, decision-useful written product without an artificial time limit.
03Practice beta
Crime-Scene Practical
Review a fictional scene, identify priorities and gaps, and explain a lawful, organized investigative response.
04Practice beta
Case Prioritization
Triage a realistic caseload, protect urgent opportunities, allocate limited resources, and defend the order.
05Guided beta
Investigative Interview
Conduct a structured voice interview with a fictional witness, victim, or suspect and identify what remains unresolved.
Consolidated coaching report
One report that finds patterns across the entire process.
Investigative judgmentCompletenessPrioritizationWritten communicationInterviewingAccountability
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