Minneapolis Police Cadet

[atsteal]

MPLS PD is coming to Iowa State Univ. to recruit for police cadet. How competitive is the process usually? PM if you want.

[vivithemage]

I got to the backgrounds portion for 3/3/14 cadet class, but was never chosen for the medical. I thought it was pretty competitive. What are you looking for exactly?

[atsteal]

I'd really like to work in MPLS.

[vivithemage]

I'd really like to work in MPLS.

Here's my little brain dump from going through the cadet process for Minneapolis a few weeks ago.

The closest i've gotten into the cadet program was passed backgrounds ... to better help your question, what are your questions? If I recall, they had 30 spots, couple thousand showed up for fitness, 1xx or so for orals, and about 60 for backgrounds. Apparently they used a random pull on the list of those who passed backgrounds, even if you scored high on that, you would not necessarily get a call into medical/psych (This is what my mpls cop buddy told me who spoke to the people running that show). I forget what they call that sort of style picking though but I am sure someone else can chime in on it. He figured this because he wanted to know where I was ranked out of those who got passed backgrounds.

Competitive is what you make it, what makes this 'unique' imo is that you have to have a degree already, AND NO POST cert, which most people looking to become LEO already have I assume.

Form the rumors i've heard cadet will have another application process June 3rd or so.... which may be why they are recruiting so quickly after the last class.

[atsteal]

Ya the academy is going to start in March 2015

[atsteal]

Just applied to the CSO position.