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2020 Update 4

6/21/2020

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​I hope you are all doing well and continuing to get your study time in. The department has been slow in announcing the sergeant's test for an unknown reason, but that just means extra study time for everyone. By now, you should be steadily working at a pace of one full reading of the General Orders per month. You should be on your way to three full readings before they announce the books and the sprint starts. 

As you know, the department put out four new General Orders or revisions recently. These are important General Orders - Use of Force (now Response to Resistance), Conducted Energy Devices, and Emergency Management. I haven't updated the question bank with those General Orders because we won't know what the cutoff date is going to be. We will discover the cutoff date when they announce the books. For the commander's test, the cutoff date was more than 6 weeks prior to the date of announcement of the sources. Will they follow that same pattern? It's unclear. For now, I recommend familiarizing yourself with the new version (as required as part of the job) and studying the old version. There's a lot of overlap between the two versions, but read them both carefully to make sure you understand the differences. If the department decides to put the cutoff date after the new General Orders, I'll get them updated immediately after the source announcement.

Keep on working hard. This is the period that will distinguish those who promote and those who don't. Keep it up! As always, let me know if there's any way I can help you out.
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