J-2000 Pre-Employment Psychological Examination.pdf

Kern County Sheriff’s Office Policies and Procedures TITLE: PRE-EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGICAL EXAMINATION NO: J-2000 APPROVED: Donny Youngblood, Sheriff-Coroner EFFECTIVE: 10/29/1996 REVIEWED: 08/20/2025 REVISED: 08/20/2025 UPDATED: 08/20/2025 J-2000-1 POLICY It will be the policy of the Sheriff’s Office to allow any Deputy Sheriff, Reserve Deputy Sheriff, Detentions Deputy, Park Ranger, or Deputy Coroner candidate, who believes that an error has been made in the interpretation of his or her pre-employment psychological examination, to be re- examined, at the candidate’s own expense, by another Sheriff’s Office approved examiner. The examiner will be either a psychiatrist or psychologist. In the event the result of the second examination contradicts the findings of the original County appointed examiner, the results of that examination will be forwarded to the Sheriff’s Office Review Committee, which will be made up of the Chief Deputies, or the Sheriff’s design