Police Job Related Fitness Test (England and Wales)

Police recruits in England and Wales run the multi-stage shuttle, better known as the bleep test, over a 15m course instead of the usual 20m, and must reach level 5.4. That takes 3 minutes 35 seconds and covers 525m, which surprises people expecting something tougher. The catch is that the 15m track means more turns per minute, so practice on the correct distance rather than with a standard 20m bleep test recording. Forces also retest serving officers against the job-related standard, so it is worth staying comfortably above 5.4 rather than scraping it.