The ‘COPS-R’ Test is a proprietary, research-based instrument with demonstrated predictive validity for field performance in police and other public safety personnel. The COPS test is now available on-line for use by qualified professionals and agencies. For more information, please contact our office.
The Institute for Forensic Psychology (IFP) provides expert psychological evaluation for police and public safety agencies. Specialized assessment protocols administered by our highly experienced staff have been used to evaluate more than 100,000 people from over 700 client agencies since IFP was founded in 1972. IFP staff make clear and defensible recommendations based on detailed assessments and professional standards. All of IFP’s psychologists are licensed and specialize in police and public safety work.
Our evaluation services include pre-employment psychological evaluations of police and other public safety candidates, as well as fitness for duty evaluations of incumbent public safety personnel, health care providers, teachers and other positions involving potential risk to public safety. In addition, we conduct evaluations for promotion and critical incident debriefings. Lastly, we provide expert consultation and training to police and public safety agencies.
We are psychologists for public safety and psychological risk management consultants. We serve law enforcement, public safety, and emergency services agencies by, ensuring the psychological suitability of new hire candidates, assessing the psychological fitness of uniform and civilian employees, and identifying outstanding candidates for promotion. We strive to be the premier provider of highly specialized psychological services to police and public safety agencies in New Jersey, New York, Maine, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
Updated: January 6, 2025
As part of our ongoing efforts to provide you with the most comprehensive psychological evaluations of police and public safety candidates, IFP requires all examinees to sign a release during their evaluation that allows our review of any prior IFP assessments of them for your agency or any other that we have served.
The standard release form that examinees sign states:
Any information regarding you, and known to the Evaluators, either as a result of a prior evaluation for any jurisdiction, from background information, or from observational data, may be used by the Evaluators in formulating their present findings and may be provided to the agency named below.
Due to recent legal developments, IFP was compelled to turn over records from a prior evaluation during the course of a legal appeal of a second evaluation that included a review of the first evaluation. To avoid delay and the potential for a refusal to release such records by the initial agency, IFP is updating our terms of service to include an automatic consent to release records from your evaluation in the context of a legitimate legal appeal or court order. This will benefit all agencies involved in the evaluation process, as the consenting agencies will continue to benefit from information IFP has obtained from prior assessments of an individual.
If your agency does not consent to the release of its evaluation materials in this context, please advise IFP as soon as possible in writing. However, please be advised that this will limit IFP’s use for your agency of another agency’s previous evaluation materials. Please direct any questions about this matter to Dr. Guller (201-248-9255; matt@ifp-testing.com) or Dr. Schlosser (646-342-5480; lew@ifp-testing.com). Thank you for your continued trust in using our firm.
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