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Open Enrollment Process

1.  You will need to obtain the required forms to start your background investigation.  This can be done by contacting the Applied Technology Division office in building O4 at the college during normal work hours Monday through Friday or by making an appointment with the program director at 623.845.3831.  You may also print the needed documents from the web as noted below.  You will need the following documents:

A.     Background Investigator contact information and required document list:  Download here

B.      GCC background questionnaire.  Download here

C.     AzPOST Statement of Personal History and Application for Open Enrollment (Form PHOE).  Download from the AzPOST web site.

D.     AzPOST Medical History Questionnaire (Form MH).  Download from the AzPOST web site.

E.      AzPOST Medical Examination Report (Form ME).  Download from the AzPOST web site.

F.      AzPOST Peace Officer Physical Aptitude Test Consent Form (Form PC).  Download from the AzPOST web site.

2.  Once you have completed the AzPOST and GCC background packets and have the original and copies of the required documents, you will need to contact the background investigator to make an appointment.  Since his/her time is valuable and numerous people have not shown for appointments, you will be required to pay $35 of the investigator’s fee to secure the appointment.  You will meet with the investigator and be interviewed.  The interview takes 2-3 hours. (It normally takes approximately three months to complete the qualification process.  The background investigator may have an additional charge to complete the process in a shorter amount of time.)

The GCC and AzPOST background packets are very complex and you need to make and retain copies of these for your files, as this information will be requested by any agency interested in hiring you!  Copies of any files retained by GCC will result in a copying fee.

3.  Once the background investigator is satisfied that you are a viable candidate, you will be put in contact with the polygraph examiner (lie detector test).  You will make an appointment with him/her and post a retainer fee as you did with the background investigator.  You will then take the polygraph and the results will be sent to the background investigator.

4.  If the polygraph looks favorable, the background investigator will put you in contact with a medical facility with AzPOST certified physicians for your medical exam.  Those results are also sent to the background investigator.

5.  When you pass the background, polygraph and medical, you are offered a seat in the Academy along side those being sent by agencies.