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Personnel says LAPD hiring pipeline speeded up; committee presses on safeguards and backlog
Summary
Personnel staff reported the median time from written test to psychological evaluation fell from 182 to 133 days following process changes; personnel and LAPD said standards were retained while legacy disqualifications were triaged and investigative capacity increased.
Personnel department staff presented the entry-level peace officer dashboard and a step-by-step account of improvements to the LAPD hiring pipeline.
"The median time to complete the 6 steps ... has dropped from 182 days to 133 days," Christine Tan of the personnel department reported, based on a comparison of timelines from July—September 2025 and Sept. 16, 2025 to Feb. 12, 2026. She highlighted two large reductions: the personal history statement (PHS) review median fell from 26 days to 17 days and the field-investigation-to-final-decision median fell from 120 days to 83 days.
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