Policy Text
I. Sworn Personnel
A. Promotional Procedures
1. A promotional examination will be given every two years, unless the
Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) President and the City Manager
mutually agree to some other schedule.
2. By City Ordinance, the City’s Human Resources Director is
assigned the responsibility and authority to administer all facets of
the promotional process. The City Human Resources Director or
designee conducts all promotional examinations in conjunction with
the Department.
3. Advancement to the ranks of Sergeant and Lieutenant will be by
examinations that measure the knowledge, skills, and ability of
personnel and by seniority points, education points and
Veterans Preference Points.
4. The City Human Resources Department (HRD) or designee will
administer such examinations and prepare a promotional register,
one for Sergeants and one for Lieutenants, containing the names of
persons who have passed the examination ranked in order of such
examination scores. Promotions will be by rank order.
5. Only job related and non-discriminatory promotional examinations
will be used.
6. The HRD or designee is responsible for the security of all
promotional materials.
B. Eligibility
1. Eligibility will be in accordance with the City of Miami Beach
Personnel Rules and the current contract between the City of
Miami Beach and the FOP.
a. All employees must have a valid Florida Driver’s License.
b. All employees must hold a current State of Florida
Certification for police officer and have met the continuing
training or education requirements outlined in Chapter 943,
Florida Statute.
2. Applicants for the Sergeant’s and Lieutenant’s examinations must
apply on or before the application cut-off date and time in
accordance with the City’s Personnel Rules to be eligible to test
for promotion. Applications will be made available to prospective
candidates at the HRD.
3. The City Manager or designee for Human Resources may refuse to
permit an applicant to take the examination on the grounds of
conduct disgraceful to the Department and their officer status; or
refused advancement from probationary status. In the latter case, if
at least three years have elapsed since such failure of probationary
advancement, such candidate will be considered qualified.
4. Should any applicant(s), so disqualified for any of these alleged
reasons, contest such disqualifications, they will have access to the
grievance procedure under the current FOP collective bargaining
agreement.
5. Promotion to the rank of Sergeant and Lieutenant is based on a
promotional process. Appointments to the rank of Captain or above
and other positions designated as unclassified are exempt from the
promotional process and are made at the discretion of the Chief
of Police.
6. The position of detective is not considered a promotion and will not
be based on competitive examination.
7. When appointed to a law enforcement position in the unclassified
service, the individual must meet all state certification requirements
or be enrolled in school to obtain certification within 180 days of
appointment.
8. All police officers who, on the date of the written examination, have
four years of seniority from the date of appointment to police officer
or police officer trainee, and have performance evaluations of
satisfactory or above for the preceding 24-month period, will be
eligible to take the Sergeant’s examination.
9. All Sergeants who, on the date of the written test, have two years
seniority from the date of appointment as Sergeant and have
performance evaluations of satisfactory or above for the
preceding 24-month period, will be eligible to take the
Lieutenant’s examination.
C. Promotional Examination Announcement
1. The Department and HRD will issue a written promotional
examination announcement to the FOP and its members at least
90 days prior to the testing date. The announcement will:
a. Delineate the positions available and eligibility requirements;
b. Indicate the dates, times and locations of all examinations;
c. Explain the application process and deadline date(s);
d. Specify scoring procedure and qualifications for certification
list;
e. Provide a description of the test material chosen for the
written test and for the Assessment Center;
f. Provide any additional pertinent information;
g. A list of study materials will be attached to the
announcement.