Résumé
The National Police Improvement Agency provided funding for external consultants to assist in developing national job related fitness standards for specialist posts and, after a process of external
tendering, Lilleshall Consultancy Services (LCS) were contracted to undertake
a data gathering exercise across the service, analyse the results and produce
appropriate recommendations to the Fitness Working Group. LCS had developed the job related fitness
testing requirements for
recruits and their proposal, which was accepted, was to build on this work to
develop national standards for specialist roles by evaluating the endurance
and strength demands experienced by police officers undertaking training for
specialist roles.