Fitness Test Practice Sessions

Sessions will be approximately 3-4 hours. This includes check-in, a short physical assessment by a fitness appraiser to ensure it is safe for you to participate (e.g. checking your blood pressure and reviewing your paperwork), warm-up, demonstrations of each component of the test, participating in each component of the test, scoring, cool down, and a one-on-one review of your results.

You will be required to consent to a basic background check. Factors that will come up in a background check and may disqualify you from participating include (but are not limited to): recent police involvement, intimate partner (domestic) violence, criminal charges, affiliation with criminal activity, etc.

If your registration is approved by Uniform Recruitment, you will be sent a Physical Activity Readiness Questionnaire to complete prior to the session to ensure it is safe for you to participate. Factors that may impact your ability to participate are elevated heart rate, blood pressure, and/or injury.

If your registration is not approved, you will be informed accordingly. Only those whose registration has been approved will be permitted to participate.

Please only register if you are certain you will be able to attend on your chosen date and time as capacity is limited to 20 people per session.

If you must cancel, please provide as much notice as possible so someone else can participate. You can contact d.macfarlane@ssmps.org to cancel your registration.

If you register and do not show up for your session without notice and/or without a valid reason, you will be ineligible for participation in future sessions. Your missed session will also be kept on file and referenced in any future job applications with SSMPS.

While these sessions are intended to be for learning and practice, those who pass the practice test may choose to use the results as part of their application to SSMPS for up to four months. After four months, your results will expire and you will be required to retake the test as part of your application.

Those who do not pass the test will not be penalized (i.e. will not have the mandatory 3-month wait period to reapply that normally follows an unsuccessful test).

You will also be provided constructive feedback on areas for improvement and steps to take to improve your fitness for future testing.

You can still apply to the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service without attending a police fitness test practice session. If your application appears to meet our requirements, a recruiter will contact you to schedule a fitness test. You will need to pass the test in order to proceed any further in the application process.

No, you cannot bring a guest to observe the fitness test practice session. Only those who have registered and have had their registration approved will be allowed into the gymnasium.

No, you cannot observe the fitness test practice session. Only those who have registered and have had their registration approved will be allowed into the gymnasium and must participate.

If you want to learn more about the Sault Police fitness test, please visit https://saultpolice.ca/careers/physical-fitness-requirements/ or contact d.macfarlane@ssmps.org with any questions about applying.