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TCOLE committee hears tighter pre-employment and fitness-for-duty processes, greater data visibility
Summary
Advisory committee members reviewed recent changes to TCOLEfitness-for-duty, applicant psychological evaluations, and arrest-notification processes and discussed gaps in examiner availability and consistency, especially for remote and small agencies.
Members of a Texas Commission on Law Enforcement advisory committee discussed recent changes to pre-employment psychological evaluations, fitness-for-duty procedures and TCOLEdata collection after officersarrests.
Speakers described steps TCOLE has taken to tighten pre-employment evaluations: more standardized forms, clearer instructions that agencies rather than applicants should select examiners, and expanded packet contents sent between psychologists and agencies. "The rule requires you to get all those things; that's now on the form," the presenter said, describing steps intended to…
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