Many police departments currently cap "acceptable" general intelligence test scores to reduce turnover, fearing smarter candidates would quickly get bored with day-to-day policing.
It remains unclear whether group differences in intelligence test scores are caused by heritable factors or by other correlated demographic variables such as socioeconomic status, education level, and motivation.
An insistence on factor analytic confirmation may even be a hindrance to the desirable goal of closing the gap between psychology and the business of intelligence test development.
Due to the high number of applicants, an applicant must participate in a multistage selection process, consisting of an application sheet, an intelligence test, and a testing weekend.
