The Board of Fire and Police Commissioners (BFPC) will prepare an Initial Eligibility List of the candidates who successfully passed the written examination. Candidates shall be placed on the Initial Eligibility List in order of their relative excellence as determined by their written examination scores without the application of any available preference points. At its discretion, the Board may also create a separate, stand-alone Certified Eligible Lateral Register, which is limited to persons who are currently full-time sworn officers of a regularly-constituted police department in any municipality, county, university, or State law enforcement agency, provided they have been certified by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training Standards Board.
Candidates on the Initial Eligibility List shall be eligible for only military and educational preference points pursuant to 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-8 and 65 ILCS 5/10-2.1-9(a). The total number of military and educational preference points for each eligible candidate on the Initial Eligibility List will be five regardless of the number of categories for which the candidate qualifies.
Instructions for applICATION OF Preference points will be sent out to those candidates
who PASSED THe written examination and are placed on the initial eligibility list
