You are required to pass the Physical Agility Test (PAT) to attend any law enforcement academy in the state. Your application with POST must be approved to qualify on the PAT.

• The test is a timed obstacle course that must be completed in 2 minutes, six seconds or less.

The course is a few feet larger than half of a basketball course.

During the test, you will:

• Run 1 and 3/4 laps around the outside of the course.

• Enter the course and follow the pattern shown on this map.

• Jump two small hurdles.

• Climb and descend a flight of stairs.

• Go around a cone.

• Climb and descend the stairs again.

• Jump more hurdles.

• Low crawl under a 2.5-foot-high bar.

  • If you fail to negotiate the low crawl correctly, you will receive a two-second time penalty.

• Go around a cone.

• Run and leap across a simulated 6-foot gap representing a large ditch.

  • If either foot hits the tape, you will receive a two second time penalty.

  • You can opt to skip the jump and take the two second time penalty.

• Go around a cone.

• Run back across the floor and negotiate a 4-foot-high chain link fence panel.

• Go around a cone.

•  Run back across the floor, go around a cone, and climb through a standard sized, 4-foothigh window.

• Drag a 150-pound dummy for 20 feet, across the designated line.

• Run a final lap around the outside of the course.