Police Project

Police Project

The department is currently undertaking research in collaboration with the policing department at Wrexham University. The current project is examining the reliability of the multistage fitness stage at a determinant of policing students/recruits physical fitness.

The multistage fitness test (beep test) has been used widely as means for physical fitness assessment of police officers for decades. In the UK, prospective special constabulary officers must have a multi-stage fitness test score of greater than 5.4 and have a BMI of 18-25kg/m2.

The project is comparing the scores of the policing students to the results from a maximal oxygen consumption (VO2 Max) test, the gold standard test for aerobic fitness.  An additional project aims to investigate the perceived importance of physical fitness in the role of a police officer and how policing students perceptions impact upon recruits completing the multistage fitness test.