South Carolina police academy entry and passing requirements:

Physical Abilities Test   

The standard for successful completion of the PAT will be for the BLE participant, unassisted during the event, to complete the course in two minutes and six seconds (2:06).

  • The candidate runs one and 3/4 laps around the perimeter of the course
  • The first obstacle encountered in the interior consists of two low hurdles, one and a half feet high and four feet long, placed 13 feet apart.
  • After clearing the hurdles, stairs (five steps up to a 32-inch wide landing, 45 inches above the floor, and five steps down) must be negotiated twice (note that each step has a 7.5 inch rise and tread that is 11 inches wide).
  • Once the stair event is completed another low hurdle must be cleared; the trainee must then successfully negotiate a low crawl under an obstacle set at 2 ½ feet above the floor.
  • Make a turn and clear a ditch simulation that is six feet in width.
  • After another turn, a chain-link fence (four feet in height) must be climbed.
  • Two additional turns made, and a four-foot high window (opening is 3' wide x 4.5' high) must be successfully entered.
  • The candidate must then drag a 150-pound dead weight a distance of 20 feet.
  • After the weight drag, the candidate exits the course, completes one final lap around the perimeter and finishes at the point indicated in red on the course map.   

Physical Abilities Test South Carolina

 

Top 3 ways people fail police academy physical testing:

  • Fitness Requirements for Entrance into Police Academy Cardio Endurance
  • Fitness Requirements for Entrance into Police Academy Push-Ups
  • Fitness Requirements for Entrance into Police Academy Injury

Top 6 ways cops are forced into early retirement:

  • Arthritis
  • Bone Fractures
  • Soft Tissue Injuries
  • Heart Disease
  • Obesity
  • Back Injuries

South Carolina police your best life Requirements:

Fitness Requirements for Entrance into Police Academy

Bench Press

Required 225 x 10

Fitness Requirements for Entrance into Police Academy

Squat

Required 500lbs

Fitness Requirements for Entrance into Police Academy

40 Yard Dash

Required 4.40s

Fitness Requirements for Entrance into Police Academy

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The TFT system will identify individual officer EXPOSURE POINTS susceptible to injury. We target problem areas for strength building through a multi-level evaluation and fitness building process.

Officers get:

  • Personalized feedback & control
  • To become their best physical selves
  • To become more productive professionally & personally

Departments get:

  • Reduction in lost-time injuries
  • Reduced insurance costs

It focuses people's attention on what is necessary as a responsibility not only when they get hired, and they're on duty, but also when they're off-duty. This job requires me to be physically fit. It incorporates workouts geared towards our line of work.

Cory P.

U.S. Navy & Law Enforcement Academy Recruit

Since starting this program I've lost 50 lbs. I'm sitting here competing with kids who are 10 years younger then me and SMOKIN' them in the gym now. And it just feels GREAT. This program is definitely going to give you that step up.

Todd C.

Criminal Justice-Law Enforcement Student

Chicago, IL

The TFT Program correlated each exercise to movements, actions, tasks, and situations an officer would find themselves in. I believe our recruits are more prepared both physically and mentally for the challenges of patrol services after completing this program.

Officer Linda B.

Officer of Madison Police Department

Madison, WI

Learning and seeing the benefits of the TFT Program, I was convinced this program should be part of our Police Certification Curriculum. The TFT Program can assure the Law Enforcement Professionals can survive the physical and mental demands that this essential profession demands.

Tony B.

Director of a State Training and Standards Bureau

Wisconsin

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South Carolina police/academy physical fitness requirements

South Carolina Department of Justice

55 Beattie Pl Suite 700, Greenville, SC 29601

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