Name: ______Date: ______
Police Sergeant 2014
Guidelines for Calculating College Credit Hours
□ I have earned a total of ______college credit hours (transcripts attached).
These guidelines and worksheet are designed to help Phoenix Police Officers who have not yet attained their bachelor’s degree to determine if they meet the experience/special requirements to be invited to the 2014 Police Sergeant written exam. All applicants must have at least 30 credit hours on their college transcript(s).
Note: If you are not sure if you meet the experience/special requirements, please apply during the recruitment period and the recruiting staff will make this determination.
Experience/Special Requirements:
§ Requires a bachelor’s degree or 120 college credit hours, and at least four years of experience as a Phoenix Police Officer.
§ The last Police Recruit class that meets the time-in-service requirement is 436, which graduated May 9, 2008.
§ Up to 90 hours of college credit may be offset by non-degree training, specialty assignments, designated skills, languages, and other job-related achievements.
§ Each 42 hours of job-related, non-degree training, and each specialty assignment, designated skill, and language will be equivalent to three hours of college credit.
Offset To College Credit/FormulaIf you have a college degree (BA/BS), you do not need to complete this form. / College Credit Hours
CEP-Approved Skill
Number of skills ___ x 3 = number of college credit hours
CEP-Approved AZ Post Instructorship
Number of instructorships ____ x 3 = number of college credit hours
CEP-Approved Phoenix Police Department Regional Academy Instructorship
Number of instructorships ___ x 3 = number of college credit hours
CEP-Approved Language
Number of languages ___ x 3 = number of college credit hours
CEP-Qualifying Specialty Assignment (served at least 11 months)
Number of assignments ___ x 3 = number of college credit hours
Academy Training (shown on academy training record) and/or
Other Training (not shown on academy training record)
Number of academy training hours + other training hours = total training hours ¸ by 42 x 3 = number (use standard rounding) of college credit hours
Total College Credit Equivalent Hours:
Please call Debra Stanton, Police Fiscal Management Bureau, at 602-262-1665 or email , if you have any questions regarding completing this form.
Estaff/Police/Police Sergeant – Calculating College Credit Hours R. 11/2013
Job Code #62220, Job ID #10026