A. 
The examination for full-time civil service police officer will consist of a written and an oral examination, which will be graded on a 100-point scale. The written examination will represent 60% of the final score and the oral examination will represent 40% of the final score.
B. 
Each applicant will undergo a physical fitness test and a background investigation.
C. 
At the discretion of the Commission, all applicants may be required to take a polygraph test. These tests and investigations will be graded on a pass/fail basis for every applicant.
D. 
After an applicant has been extended an offer of employment, final appointment shall be contingent upon the applicant passing a physical (including a drug screen) and psychological examination.
A. 
The Borough will hold an internal competitive examination process for promotion to sergeant whereby only qualified internal candidates will be tested for promotion, except as provided in Subsection B below.
B. 
If no qualified internal candidate applies for and/or successfully passes the competitive examination for a promotional position, the Borough will hold an external competitive examination for appointment to the position whereby qualified external candidates will be tested for the appointment.
C. 
The examination for the position shall include a written and an oral examination, which will be graded on a 100-point scale. The written examination will represent 60% of the final score and the oral examination will represent 40% of the final score.
D. 
Each applicant will undergo a physical fitness test, which will be graded on a pass/fail basis for every applicant.
E. 
After an applicant has been extended an offer of promotion or appointment, the final appointment to the promotional position shall be contingent upon the applicant passing a physical (including drug screen) and psychological examination.
The Commission shall appoint a written examination administrator, an oral examination board, a polygraph examiner, a physical fitness examiner, a medical examiner and a psychological examiner to conduct the appropriate examination(s) as required by these rules and regulations.
A. 
The written examination shall be graded on a 100-point scale, and an applicant must score 75% or higher and remain one of the top 10 scores, including ties, in order to continue in the application process.
B. 
Applicants scoring less than 75% shall be rejected.
C. 
Within 30 days after the administration of the written examination, all applicants shall be given written notice of their test results, and applicants receiving a passing grade shall be scheduled for an oral examination appointment.
A. 
Every applicant who passes the written exam and either remains one of the top 10 scores, including ties, or claims veteran preference shall be give an oral examination by the Oral Examination Board.
B. 
The oral examination shall be graded on a 100-point scale, and an applicant must score 75% or higher and remain one of the top 10 scores, including ties, in order to continue in the application process.
C. 
Applicants scoring less than 75% shall be rejected.
D. 
The oral examination shall involve questioning applicants on how they would handle situations relevant to police work.
E. 
The Oral Examination Board shall ask the same question(s) in the same order of any candidate who is invited to participate in the oral examination.
F. 
Within 30 days after the applicant's oral examination, all applicants shall be given written notice of their test results, and applicants receiving a passing grade shall be scheduled for physical fitness testing.
A. 
The Civil Service Commission shall, before the oral examination process begins, appoint the members of the Oral Examination Board.
B. 
The Oral Examination Board shall consist of three appointed members.
C. 
The governing body shall, before the oral examination process begins, have the right to appoint an observer, who shall not grade the candidates.
D. 
No member of the Summit Hill Borough Council or the Summit Hill Civil Service Commission shall be a member of the Oral Examination Board. The following individuals may be members of the Oral Examination Board:
(1) 
The Chief of the Summit Hill Police Department;
(2) 
A resident(s) of Summit Hill Borough;
(3) 
A member(s) of the Pennsylvania State Police;
(4) 
A representative(s) from a bona fide testing agency which conducts interviews for police officers; or
(5) 
An instructor(s) who teaches law enforcement classes at a university, college technical school, or other certified police officer training academy.
E. 
The Civil Service Commission shall, before the oral examination process begins, submit the names of the Oral Examination Board appointees to the governing body.
F. 
The governing body shall, before the oral examination process begins, have the right to veto, by motion at its next regularly scheduled meeting, any an all Oral Examination Board appointees. If no motion at the aforementioned meeting, then no appointee shall be rejected.
G. 
The oral examination process may begin after the regularly scheduled Council meeting after which the Oral Examination Board appointees have been submitted to the governing body and where none of the three Oral Examination Board appointees has been vetoed.
A. 
Pursuant to the Veterans' Preference Act, any applicant for the position of entry-level full-time police officer who qualifies as a "soldier" under said Act shall receive an additional 10 points to be added to their total score if that applicant had received passing scores under Article V of this chapter.
B. 
Veterans' preference points, and the application thereof, shall only apply to applicants for the positions of full-time civil service patrol-level police officer and shall not apply to applicants for appointment or promotion to any other position within the Summit Hill Borough Police Department or police chain of command.
C. 
In order to receive veterans' preference points, an applicant must produce a valid DD-214 or other U.S. government military discharge form, as applicable, indicating an honorable discharge.
D. 
Members of the military who have served in a Reserve or National Guard capacity only and who have completed their required initial term or enlistment shall be eligible to receive veterans' preference points.
E. 
Applicants who qualify for veterans' preference points shall have those points added to their passing score prior to being ranked on the eligibility list.
A. 
Every applicant who scored 75% or higher in the oral examination and remains one of the top 10 scores, including ties, shall be given a physical fitness test.
B. 
An applicant for the position of police officer must perform the following physical fitness requirements:
(1) 
Stretcher carry. Applicants will be paired off and required to carry a stretcher with a simulated patient weighing approximately 200 pounds over a distance of 100 feet. Those applicants failing on the first attempt will be allowed to retake the exercise with a person who has successfully completed the exercise.
(2) 
Body drag. An applicant is required to remove a simulated motor vehicle operator weighing approximately 200 pounds from behind the steering wheel of a motor vehicle and drag the simulated operator to a point 50 feet from the motor vehicle.
(3) 
Quarter-mile run. An applicant is required to run a distance of 1/4 mile on a premeasured course in less than 110 seconds.
(4) 
Thirty-second trigger pull. Within a thirty-second time limit per hand, an applicant is required to repeatedly pull 15 times for each hand the trigger of a double-action, nonfunctional revolver, with arms horizontally extended.
(5) 
Sit-ups. An applicant is required, when laying from a supine-back position with straight legs, hands touching shoulders and crossed on the chest, to come to an upright sitting position 90° 15 times in a sixty-second time period.
(6) 
Push-ups. An applicant is required to complete 15 push-ups in a forty-second time period. The applicant will start by supporting his/her body by positioning the hands and feet in front of them, and applicant will lower the body as a unit with shoulders, hips and legs in the same plane to a point one to two inches from the floor and return to the front support position.
(7) 
Motor vehicle push. An applicant is required to push an average sized motor vehicle a distance of 25 feet to a premeasured flat course.