Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers
Abilities
| % | Subject | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 87.50 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
| 87.50 | Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. |
| 81.25 | Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
| 81.25 | Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
| 78.00 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
| 72.00 | Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
| 72.00 | Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
| 68.75 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
| 68.75 | Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
| 65.50 | Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
| 65.50 | Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. |
| 62.50 | Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
| 62.50 | Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
| 59.50 | Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
| 59.50 | Trunk Strength | The ability to use your abdominal and lower back muscles to support part of the body repeatedly or continuously over time without "giving out" or fatiguing. |
| 56.25 | Explosive Strength | The ability to use short bursts of muscle force to propel oneself (as in jumping or sprinting), or to throw an object. |
| 56.25 | Static Strength | The ability to exert maximum muscle force to lift, push, pull, or carry objects. |
| 56.25 | Speed of Closure | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. |
| 56.25 | Multilimb Coordination | The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion. |
| 56.25 | Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
| 53.00 | Dynamic Strength | The ability to exert muscle force repeatedly or continuously over time. This involves muscular endurance and resistance to muscle fatigue. |
| 53.00 | Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. |
| 53.00 | Response Orientation | The ability to choose quickly between two or more movements in response to two or more different signals (lights, sounds, pictures). It includes the speed with which the correct response is started with the hand, foot, or other body part. |
| 53.00 | Reaction Time | The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears. |
| 50.00 | Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). |
| 50.00 | Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. |
| 50.00 | Memorization | The ability to remember information such as words, numbers, pictures, and procedures. |
| 50.00 | Time Sharing | The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information (such as speech, sounds, touch, or other sources). |
| 50.00 | Arm-Hand Steadiness | The ability to keep your hand and arm steady while moving your arm or while holding your arm and hand in one position. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
