New Zealand Police. Nga Pirihimana O Aotearoa.

  1. 1. Do you qualify?

    Want to be a recruit? First, try our quick quiz… ten questions that will tell you if you can join the New Zealand Police.

  2. 2. The Assessment

    There are some assessments you need to complete before you enter training at the Royal New Zealand Police College. You can complete them in any order.

Academic assessment

The academic and problem-solving assessment measure general intellectual skills. They test your ability to see relationships and solve problems.

There are three parts to the academic assessment. They are: Verbal, Numerical and Abstract Reasoning.

It is important that all police recruits have the ability to pass these assessments as they are an indicator of a person’s ability to cope with the intellectual demands of police training and police work. Struggling to pass them would indicate that you would benefit from developing these skills before going to Police College.

There is a huge range of books on psychometric testing available from your book shop to help you prepare for the assessments.