I just saw this on Twitter, and recently saw the same message on one of those portable traffic message signs on Washington Street in Newton Corner. So if you’re young enough and fit enough and, maybe female and hopefully not interested in egging your co-workers houses, it’s almost, but not quite too late to apply to take the Newton Police exam.
Remember, the application deadline for the upcoming Police Exam is Monday March 18, 2013! It's a great career!!!
— Newton Police (@newtonpolice) March 15, 2013
Is prior experience egging houses mandatory or optional? Or do they provide on-the-job training for that sort of thing?
Too many laws in this state not worth enforcing.
Mike
Is there a fitness requirement?
Yes… you will have to go through the Academy (presumably the MBTA academy) which is actually pretty intense. After that…
Mike
I believe the physical requirements are mostly at the end of Police Academy training, but maybe someone who’s been through it can comment. The Newton Police website has this:
http://local.nixle.com/alert/4962847/
which notes that the Massachusetts exam is only given every two years.
On the state website, there’s a description of what looks like it would be the post-training physical tests:
http://www.mass.gov/anf/employment-equal-access-disability/civil-serv-info/med-and-physical-fitness-stnds/pat/police-officer-physical-abilities-test-pat.html
If Newton uses the MBTA academy, like all local towns do, you hit the ground running. I haven’t had the good fortune of going through it, but I have many friends who are local law enforcement, some who have been through as recently as the last class, and all said there was a good amount of running involved. Bear in mind all these guys are Marines, so I’ll take them at their word when they said the academy was very physically intense.
Mike
Why does the MBTA run the police training program? In case someone flames out as a police officer, they can be a T driver? Is it like a built-in fallback plan?
There are regional academies, the MBTA takes most of the officers in the state. Towns reimburse the MBTA for costs of sending their officers. It isn’t an MBTA driving academy, it is the MBTA police academy, for, you know, the transit POLICE. They run classes a handful of times a year and departments from across the state send their officers.
Mike