PERSONALITY PROFILES OF POLICE CANDIDATES

Recently, Eber (1991) reported on several large-scale studies of law e nforcement candidates. The main measures were the two parts of the Cli nical Analysis Questionnaire (Krug, Cattell, & IPAT, 1980). Part I con sists of the 16 Personality Factor Questionnaire Scales, while Part II is devoted to 12 measures of psychopathology. The most striking findi ng was a clear personality profile characterized by a strong pattern o f self-discipline or Control, Tough Poise, and low Anxiety. Our study hypothesis was that several police personality profiles would be found . This conjecture was tested on the 16PF scores of two samples of 275 police candidates by means of the Ward (1963) hierarchical clustering procedure and the Milligan/Sokal (1980) nonhierarchical K-means cluste r procedures. Three distinct score profiles were isolated in both samp les.