Upcoming Filing Cutoff Dates:

• 6/30/2024
• 7/31/2024
• 8/31/2024
• 9/30/2024
• 10/31/2024
• 11/30/2024
• 12/31/2024

Examination/Employment Application (STD 678) must be received or postmarked by the filing date indicated above. Applications postmarked, personally delivered or received via interoffice mail after the filing date will be processed in the next group.

The information below will help you determine which classification(s) is(are) appropriate for you. Applicants must meet the Minimum Qualifications as stated on this bulletin to compete in this examination.

Open and Open, Non-Promotional Examination(s):

• SENIOR LAW ENFORCEMENT CONSULTANT, COMMISSION ON PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS AND TRAINING - Open

For all Classifications, once you have participated in any of the following examinations, you may not recompete for 12 months:

Exam Code(s):

2516

For SENIOR LAW ENFORCEMENT CONSULTANT, COMMISSION ON PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS AND TRAINING, once you have participated in any of the following examinations, you may not recompete for 12 months:

Exam Code(s):

• EX-02516

Submit an Examination/Employment Application (STD 678) to apply for this examination.

Electronic applications can be submitted through your account at www.CalCareers.ca.gov.

You may apply by mail to:

• Human Resources
  Peace Officer Standards and Training
  Commission on POST
  860 Stillwater Road, Suite 100
  West Sacramento, CA 95605
  

Indicate the Examination Code and Classification(s) on your Examination/Employment Application (STD 678).

You may drop off your application and any applicable or required documents at:

• Peace Officer Standards and Training
  Commission on POST
  860 Stillwater Road, Suite 100
  West Sacramento, CA 95605
  8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Indicate the Examination Code and Classification(s) on your Examination/Employment Application (STD 678). All applicants must provide proof of identification. Accepted forms of identification are: 1) a photo identification card or 2) two forms of signed identification.

The following items must be submitted with your Examination/Employment Application form. Failure to submit these items may result in rejection of your application.

• Transcript (Official or Unofficial)
• Other - Training and Experience Questionnaire (Supplemental Report)

If you require assistance or alternative testing arrangements due to a disability, indicate on your application that you need reasonable accommodation. You will be contacted by a representative of the testing department to make the necessary arrangements. If you have not been contacted by the time you receive notification of testing, please contact the testing department listed in the Contact section of this bulletin.

If you are unable to submit your application or complete the test due to a disability, please contact the testing department listed in the Contact section of this bulletin.

All applicants must meet the education and/or experience requirements as stated on this exam bulletin to be accepted to the examination.

Unless otherwise stated in the Minimum Qualifications, qualifying experience may be combined on a proportionate basis if the requirements stated below include more than one pattern and are distinguished as "Either" 1, "or" 2, "or" 3, etc. For example, applicants possessing qualifying experience amounting to 50% of the required time of Pattern 1 and additional experience amounting to 50% of the required time of Pattern 2 may be accepted to an examination as meeting 100% of the overall experience requirement.

EITHER I

One year of experience performing the duties of a Law Enforcement Consultant II, Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, in the California state service.

OR II

Experience: Three years of responsible administrative, supervisory, or equivalent staff level experience at the Lieutenant level or higher in law enforcement, including or supplemented by at least two years of responsibility in either training, personnel, management, or a closely related area.

AND 

Education: Equivalent to graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree or higher. (Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.)

This examination consists of the following component(s):

Components that are due with your application will be scored and will count toward your final examination result. Failure to submit these items may result in disqualification or elimination from the examination.

A final score of 70% must be attained to be placed on the eligible list.

The Training & Experience Questionnaire (Supplemental Report) will be used to assess your experience, training, and/or education as it relates to the position of Senior Law Enforcement Consultant.

Complete and submit the following items with your application. These will be scored and count toward your final examination result. Failure to submit these items will result in disqualification from the examination.

Training & Experience Questionnaire: TrainingandExperienceQuestionnaire(SupplementalReport).pdf

In addition to evaluating the applicant's relative knowledge, skill and ability as demonstrated by quality and breadth of education/experience, emphasis in each test component will be on measuring competitively, relative to job demands, each applicant's:

Knowledge of:

1. The provisions of applicable State and Federal laws, rules, and regulations related to peace officer standards and training;
2. Current issues and problems of the California law enforcement community;
3. Contemporary law enforcement operational methods and procedures;
4. Effective training principles and methods as applied to peace officer training;
5. The principles and practices of personnel management, supervision, and selection as applied to law enforcement;
6. Department Affirmative Action Program objectives;
7. A manager's role in the Affirmative Action Program and the processes available to meet affirmative action objectives.

1. Communicate effectively with diverse groups and individuals;
2. Identify and address sensitive issues and situations;
3. Design, develop, implement, and manage major specialized training programs;
4. Research complex, statewide, program and policy issues and prepare comprehensive, sensitive, and complex documents for statewide use;
5. Establish and maintain cooperative interactions with the public, law enforcement, governmental, educational, and private sector organizations and agencies;
6. Analyze broad, complex, legal, and politically sensitive issues accurately and take appropriate action;
7. Apply management principles and practices in the development of new law enforcement organizations and systems;
8. Make comprehensive presentations at formal and informal meetings of law enforcement, academic, labor, and other special interest groups;
9. Plan and direct the work of others;
10. Effectively contribute to the Department's affirmative action objectives.

1. Experience in developing and presenting complex law enforcement training programs;
2. Experience with current computer and communications technologies;
3. Four-year or advanced college degree(s) in management or public administration;
4. Eligibility for the California POST Management Certificate;
5. Broad range of middle management experience in California law enforcement.

A Departmental Open eligible list for the SENIOR LAW ENFORCEMENT CONSULTANT, COMMISSION ON PEACE OFFICER STANDARDS AND TRAINING Classification will be established for:

• Peace Officer Standards and Training

The names of successful competitors will be merged onto the eligible list(s) in order of final score regardless of test date. Eligibility expires 12 months after it is established. Applicants must then retake the examination to reestablish eligibility.

Veterans' Preference will be granted for this examination. Veterans' Preference is an assistance program for veterans, veteran widows and widowers, and spouses of 100% disabled veterans who seek employment with the state. Veterans' Preference is also extended to currently serving military members nearing their retirement or separation date.

You are not eligible for Veteran's Preference if you are:

• A veteran who has been dishonorably discharged or released.
• A veteran, widow or widower of a veteran, or spouse of a 100 percent disabled veteran who currently has permanent civil service status. (Permanent civil service status is the status of an employee who is lawfully retained in his/her position after completion of the applicable probationary period. This does not include limited term).

Veterans' Preference is codified in Government Code Sections 18973 – 18979.

Veteran status is verified by the California Department of Human Resources (CalHR). Directions to apply for Veterans' Preference are on the Veterans' Preference Application (Std. Form 1093), which is available at www.CalCareers.ca.gov, and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Career Credits are not granted for examination(s) administered on an Open basis or a Promotional basis.

• Peace Officer Standards and Training

Questions regarding this examination should be directed to:

California Relay Service: 1-800-735-2929 (TTY), 1-800-735-2922 (Voice). TTY is a Telecommunications Device for the Deaf, and is reachable only from phones equipped with a TTY Device.

Examination and/or Employment Application (STD 678) forms are available at the California Department of Human Resources, local offices of the Employment Development Department, and through your CalCareer Account (www.CalCareers.ca.gov).

If you meet the requirements stated on this examination bulletin, you may take this examination, which is competitive. Possession of the entrance requirements does not assure a place on the eligible list. Your performance in the examination described in this bulletin will be rated against a predetermined job-related rating, and all applicants who pass will be ranked according to their scores.

Peace Officer Standards and Training reserves the right to revise the examination plan to better meet the needs of the service, if the circumstances under which this examination was planned change. Such revision will be in accordance with civil service laws and rules and all applicants will be notified.

General Qualifications: Applicants must possess essential personal qualifications including integrity, initiative, dependability, good judgment, the ability to work cooperatively with others, and a state of health consistent with the ability to perform the assigned duties of the class. A medical examination may be required. In open examinations, investigation may be made of employment records and personal history and fingerprinting may be required.

Eligible Lists: Eligible lists established by competitive examination, regardless of date, must be used in the following order: 1) sub-divisional promotional, 2) departmental promotional, 3) multi-departmental promotional, 4) service-wide promotional, 5) departmental open, 6) open. When there are two lists of the same kind, the older must be used first. Eligible lists will expire in one to four years unless otherwise stated on the bulletin.

High School Equivalence: Equivalence to completion of the 12th grade may be demonstrated in any one of the following ways: 1) passing the General Education Development (GED) Test; 2) completion of 12 semester units of college-level work; 3) certification from the State Department of Education, a local school board, or high school authorities that the competitor is considered to have education equivalent to graduation from high school; or 4) for clerical and accounting classes, substitution of business college work in place of high school on a year-for-year basis.

Accepted applicants must provide proof of identification at each in-person test session. Acceptable identification consists of a photo identification card or two forms of signed identification.