Designing of Fitness Test Battery for the Recruitment of Police Constables

Muhammad Jamil; Dr. Alamgir Khan; Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Butt

Muhammad Jamil Visiting Faculty, Department of Sports Sciences and Physical Education, University of the Punjab.
Dr. Alamgir Khan Assistant Professor, Department of Sports Sciences and Physical Education, University of the Punjab.
Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal Butt Professor, and HOD Department of Sports Sciences and Physical Education, University of the Punjab

Keywords: Fitness, Recruitment, Police, Constables, Punjab, Pakistan

Abstract

The determination of the study was to devise a fitness test battery for the assortment of police constables in Punjab Pakistan. Police constables (new appointees) of three training institutions in Punjab were included as the population of the study. A total of 1989 respondents were taken as a sample by using a convenient sampling technique. Five items test battery was formulated for the assessment of the fitness level of the participants. The data gathered through the devised fitness battery were processed through a statistical package for social sciences (SPSS, version-26), and thus according to parametric data, appropriate statistical tools were applied, and finally, the researcher concluded that various socio-demographics features such as locality, age, and qualification are linked to the performance of respondents. Based on the conclusion the researcher demonstrated that this fitness test battery can be exploited for the assortment of police constables.