Pre Employment Medicals ; Assessing the medical fitness of police officers addresses their immediate fitness to train and give sustainable service.

7 Force Commercial on behalf of Bedfordshire,Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire Police forces require a supplier to deliver a estimated pre determined set of pre-employment medical assessments per year for two years. This service is dependant on recruitment levels.
The assessment of fitness to train and to function as a police officer should be based on an understanding of the functional requirements of the response role.

For applicants applying directly to become detectives, the assessment of medical fitness should relate to the functional role of a detective. This includes the physical and psychological aspects of the respective roles. However, all serving police officers are considered to contribute to the force threshold and, as such, they are required to be fit to carry out all the ordinary duties of a police officer.