How can you pass the Birmingham PD fitness tests? We held the course to find out – WBRC

Birmingham, Ala. (WBRC) – The trip to become a police officer in Birmingham starts more with murmur and press than a step. At least this is what Jonathan Hardison taught when you began a course of obstacles at the Academy, pressing a police car in Birmingham in a neutral between 2 lines.

“I think people are intimidated by pressing a vehicle, but once they find out it is neutral, it has wheels – it will move on,” the Birmingham Police Sergeant Chantara Foster encourages.

Then it is a run to a fence of 8 feet, which you have to clear, until a few cones, past the barking dog, then through a simulated window. Clear this, and you come back through the cones until you reach balance if you fall.

Finally, you reach a dummy of 165 pounds, you need to pick up and pull or drag back through the sand to the final cone.

“Once you get under it and take it, it’s heavy,” SGT said. Foster. “It’s hard and some people are like,” Oh God, I didn’t expect it. ” The grown men are exceeded by the mannequin. “

Hardison asked Foster, “Honestly assessment. How did I do? ”

“I think you’ve done an excellent job,” SGT. said Foster. “There is nothing you could do better, moreover, it was the first and the second time – you did great.”

To pass the test, you need to complete the course in 90 seconds or less and this can be scary.

“We do not want to reduce our standards, because when you are in the law enforcement agencies, these are things you need to do if you have to enter a window to save someone from a burning building, you have to go through it,” SGT. said Foster. “If you have to keep a fallen person and drag them, you have to do it. I jumped. I tore my pants, doing them, but these are the things we practice in law enforcement. ”

If you do not pass this the first time, the department offers its sand program (or training for grinding resistance) to help applicants enter the form and strength that is needed to pass the course, and Sergeant Foster says, That it is even ready to allow you to come to do dry running before the day of testing.

“If they contact us personally, my team, and I, we have no problem walking them through the course of obstacles or even to make facial supports with them,” Foster said. “If their commitment is to this career in this department, we translate them through the door for sure. As, I guarantee that this. As for the obstacle course, I think it’s not difficult. I am a little woman for the part, but anyone can come and do. We have women who are probably 100 pounds wet and they go through it. So, whether you are without shape, you are bigger or less. We can take you where you have to be. “

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