Police Applicant Screening Service

The Police Applicant Screening Service (PASS) is operated by the law enforcement agencies of Pinellas County, Florida to provide candidate evaluation and background investigation services for fourteen participating employers. PASS is located at St. Petersburg College's Allstate Center, but is not part of the college itself. You must contact SPC directly to register or ask questions about tuition, schedules and other requirements.

The PASS process is a unified pre-employment screening process operated by the 14 law enforcement agencies of Pinellas County, Florida. It makes a single application simultaneously available to all these agencies to save time and effort for both you and the agencies.

If you are already a certified law enforcement or corrections officer in another state, the military or a federal agency, the EOT process is an accelerated training and testing process leading to Florida Certification. If your basic training and employment meet certain qualifications, you may be eligible to obtain certification in Florida without having to repeat a full basic law enforcement or corrections recruit-training academy in Florida.

If you are already a Florida certified law enforcement or correctional officer and your certification has been "Inactive" less than eight (8) years (as measured from the separation date of your last employment as an officer in Florida), you may be eligible to reactivate your certification through this program.