- What are the requirements for the rank of sergeant?
– Employee Resource E05-05 states that to be eligible to take the examination, all applicants must have completed their probationary period and served an additional two full years as an active career service Chicago police officer on or before the designated date listed on the application.
– To be eligible for promotion, an applicant must have completed his or her probationary period and served an additional five full years as an active career service Chicago police officer prior to the date the Department member is ordered to report for pre-service training.
– To be eligible for promotion, the Department member must have received 60 semester hours (90 quarter hours) of credit from an accredited college or university prior to the date the member is ordered to report for pre-service training. - What are the requirements for the rank of lieutenant?
– Employee Resource E05-05 states that to be eligible to take this examination, all applicants must have eighteen months as an active career service Chicago police sergeant on or before the designated date listed on the application.
– To be eligible for promotion, an applicant must have served three full years as an active career-service Chicago Police sergeant prior to the date the Office of Public Safety Administration Human Resources Division posts the lieutenant pre-service training notice via the Administrative Message Center.
– To be eligible for promotion, must have received a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university prior to the date the member is ordered to report for pre-service training. - What is the Bernstein tentative training plan for the sergeant’s exam?
We will start with an online diagnostic 100-item pre-test. This will tell you where you are strong, and where you are weak. I will put out advance online reading list assignments for part 1 and 2. I will also release select video and audio files. Finally, in regards to our in-person classes, all in-person sergeant classes are either 9am – 1 pm or 6 pm – 10 pm. The night class is an exact repeat of the day class.
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