Policy Text
University of California, San Francisco
Police Department General Orders
3.24 Selection: Professional and Legal Requirements
3.24.4 Validation of Recruitment Components, Techniques and Tests (Revised: 2/16/18 )
The PSD Commander shall ensure all recruitment testing and assessment instruments are
reviewed by Human Resources to ensure the components are relevant to the job, have validity,
utility and minimum adverse impact on women and minority candidates. Testing and assessment
instruments will be carefully reviewed to ensure they enable interviewers or assessors to best
measure a candidate’s skills, knowledge and abilities in relation to the position for which they
have applied.
UCSF Police Department utilizes a validated testin g instrument and written examination as a
screening/selection tool of all Police Officer recruitment processes and applicants.