Establishing a Merit System of Promotions for the Bureau of Police

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3. The score received from an oral interview before the Merit Board. - 20 %. E24e opal 4!R#epv4!ew ehall 4e 4914 —a €tee+ eemple- 4 "n e€ 413e e413ep #ee #i-agr The Merit Board shall not have access to the scores of other testing at or before the oral interview. The name or any means of identification of any member taking the com- petitive and situational examinations under the provisions of this Chapter shall be withheld and made unavailable to the person and per- sons who grade such examinations and all written competitive examina- tions shall be treated and filed as confidential, provided; however, that said examination papers shall be made a part of the permanent file of the individual officer taking these examinations and they shall be maintained under the supervision of the Chief of Police. The indi- vidual officer and the members of the Board shall have access to this file to examine same at any time subject to restrictions herein. The Merit Board shall establish the method of selection of the best qualified officer based upon the examination, performance rating, and oral interviews. In the event of a vacancy, officers holding an equivalent rank and pre- requisite qualifications may be considered for lateral assignment by the Chief of Police prior to the commission's promotional deliberation of the established list. Any member qualified for promotion but refus- ing same shall maintain his position on the eligibility list, such re- fusal being considered a refusal for a specific assignment and not a refusal of promotional consideration. The Merit Board shall cause notice to each member of the Bureau, in writing, of the grade which each member received on the examination. Such regulation shall further provide that if any member is aggrieved with the grade received on the written competitive and situational examination, he shall have a right to appeal in writing to the Board for review of the grade within ten days after the notice of the grade has been sent to him and the Board, after reviewing the grade and the examination papers shall have the authority to affirm the grade or to increase the grade according to the findings of the review. The Board shall prepare a written report on each officer reviewed denoting rea- sons for action and areas in which the officer is proficient and de- ficient. (b) It shall be the duty of the Board to provide training for all personnel in the philosophy and technique of objective performance evaluation and to prescribe the manner of determining a rating for the past performance. Such regulations shall contain a provision requiring that each performance rating shall be made every six months for officers holding a permanent rank and every three months for offi- cers holding a probationary rank, such ranks being described in Section VII of this act for each member of the Bureau of Police by their imme- diate superior officer and by the appropriate number of peer group raters so situated by assignment and experience so as to have an inti- mate knowledge of the skills and character of the officer being rated, as designated by the Board, which rating shall be submitted to the Chief of Police and kept on file in his office or in the Bureau of Police under his supervision. The Merit Board shall cause notice to each member of the Bureau, in writing, of the rating which such member receives. Such regulation - 4 —