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Lawrence City Police Merit Commission approves exam results, removes failing oral candidates and adopts ranking tweak
Summary
The Lawrence City Police Merit Commission accepted written exam results that advanced 12 candidates, removed applicants with unacceptable oral-interview scores, approved a 0.5-point selection weighting, and heard that five new officers will be sworn in next Monday.
The Lawrence City Police Merit Commission on May 12, 2025 voted to file written examination results that advance 12 candidates to the oral-interview stage, remove candidates who scored below the minimum on oral interviews, and adopt a 0.5-point weighting for certain selection criteria.
The moves, taken during a brief public meeting that opened at 6:04 p.m., are part of the commission’s ongoing hiring process for the Lawrence City Police Department. The commission accepted a written-exam standard described in the file as "level 3 C S E M 70%" and recorded that 12 candidates will proceed to the review of oral interviews under the minimum passing standards.
Commissioners then voted to file oral-interview results and remove applicants whose interview scores were deemed unacceptable. The oral results were described in the record using an "acceptable or outstanding" scale and a threshold at 60%; candidates scoring below that threshold were removed from the eligibility list. The commission also approved a recommendation to add 0.5 points per listed section when computing final eligibility rankings.
Each of the three new-business items — filing the written-exam results, filing the oral-interview results with removals, and applying the 0.5-point selection weighting — was approved by motion and voice vote. The meeting record shows motions and seconds for each item and the chair announcing that each motion "carries." Specific recorded vote tallies were not provided in the meeting record.
During communications, a lieutenant with the Lawrence City Police Department told the commission, "Just next Monday, we're swearing in 5 new police officers at 2PM here in this building, in this room right here." The commission noted no public commenters were present and set its next meeting for May 12, 2025.
The actions taken formalize the next steps in the department’s hiring pipeline: candidates who passed the written exam move to oral review, the commission removed those who failed to meet the oral threshold, and the added weighting will affect how the final eligibility list is calculated. The commission did not provide additional details on candidate identities, the exact number of removals, or vote counts in the public record.
