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Promoting Leaders. Building Futures.

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Our Mission

Our Mission

Our Mission

Our mission is to help law enforcement agencies identify and promote the leaders who will shape their future through fair, objective, and customized assessment centers built on merit, professionalism, and integrity. 

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Our Vision

Our Mission

Our Mission

Our vision is to strengthen the future of law enforcement by becoming the nation's trusted partner in identifying and developing the leaders who will serve with integrity, professionalism, and excellence.
 

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Founder

Our Mission

Founder

  Eric Urenda is the Deputy Chief of Operations for the Las Cruces Police Department and a graduate of the FBI National Academy, Session 298. He brings extensive law enforcement leadership and promotional assessment experience to every agency we serve. 

The Challenge

Every promotional decision shapes the future of a law enforcement agency. The supervisors and command staff selected today will influence organizational culture, operational effectiveness, employee development, and public trust for years to come. Because of this, promotional assessments must do more than evaluate candidates—they must identify the leaders best prepared to guide an organization into the future.


Law enforcement agencies across the country continue to face the challenge of developing promotional processes that are fair, objective, legally defensible, and directly related to the responsibilities of the position. A successful assessment center requires thoughtful planning, experienced assessors, standardized evaluation methods, and exercises specifically designed to measure the leadership competencies necessary for supervisory and command roles.


Despite the importance of these decisions, many agencies rely on internal personnel who, while highly capable, often lack specialized assessment center experience and must manage the promotional process in addition to their primary responsibilities. This can create unnecessary administrative burdens, inconsistencies, and increased organizational risk.


Other agencies outsource promotional assessments to providers that rely heavily on standardized exercises, virtual evaluations, or assessors with limited law enforcement leadership experience. While these approaches may offer convenience, they can reduce opportunities to evaluate critical leadership attributes such as command presence, interpersonal communication, professionalism, adaptability, and decision-making under pressure. Virtual environments may also limit an assessor's ability to fully observe candidate interactions and maintain a consistent testing environment.


At Professional Promotions Assessment Group, we believe every agency deserves more than a standardized promotional process. We partner with law enforcement organizations to develop customized, in-person assessment centers that are objective, job-related, merit-based, and professionally managed from planning through final reporting. Our mission is simple: to help agencies identify and promote the leaders who will shape their future.

Why Professional Promotions Assessment Group?

115+ years of combined law enforcement and promotional assessment center experience, providing the expertise to develop fair, objective, and effective promotional processes.


Current and former command-level law enforcement professionals serving as assessors, bringing credibility, operational experience, and real-world leadership perspective to every evaluation.


Fully customized assessment centers designed specifically for your agency, promotional process, organizational culture, and leadership expectations—we never rely on generic or recycled exercises.


In-person assessment centers only, allowing assessors to accurately evaluate command presence, interpersonal communication, leadership ability, emotional intelligence, and decision-making under pressure while ensuring the integrity, professionalism, and consistency of every exercise.


Objective, job-related, and merit-based evaluations that measure the knowledge, skills, abilities, and leadership competencies required for success in the position.


Legally defensible assessment processes developed in accordance with recognized assessment center principles and industry best practices, helping reduce organizational risk and increase confidence in promotional decisions.


Transparent scoring, comprehensive documentation, and detailed reporting that command staff, candidates, governing bodies, and human resources professionals can trust.


End-to-end project management, from job analysis and exercise development through assessor coordination, administration, scoring, and final reports—allowing your staff to remain focused on serving their community while we manage every aspect of the assessment process.


A commitment to identifying the leaders who will shape your department's future, ensuring your promotional process selects individuals who possess the leadership qualities necessary to strengthen your organization for years to come.

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