Professional Promotions Assessment Group
Expert evaluations for law enforcement promotions.
Professional Promotions Assessment Group
Expert evaluations for law enforcement promotions.
Expert evaluations for law enforcement promotions.
Expert evaluations for law enforcement promotions.
Our vision is to be a trusted leader in promotional assessment services for law enforcement agencies by advancing fair, objective, and professionally validated evaluation processes that strengthen leadership, uphold standards, and support the long-term success of public safety organizations.
Our mission is to provide professional promotional assessment services for law enforcement agencies by designing and administering structured evaluation processes that identify qualified candidates for supervisory and command positions. We are committed to delivering fair, reliable, and job-related assessments aligned with law enforcement standards and organizational needs.

Eric Urenda, Founder of Professional Promotions Assessment Group, serves as Deputy Chief of Operations for the Las Cruces Police Department. He oversees departmental operations and the promotional assessment process and brings extensive leadership, training, and operational experience to law enforcement evaluations.
Law enforcement agencies across the United States continue to face challenges in developing promotional processes that are fair, consistent, legally defensible, and directly related to supervisory and command responsibilities. These processes must reliably identify and promote the most qualified officers into leadership roles that support organizational effectiveness and continuous improvement.
In addition to designing and administering assessment centers, agencies must select panel members who are experienced, knowledgeable, and able to evaluate candidates objectively and consistently. Achieving a credible promotional process requires careful planning, precise execution, and customization to each department’s needs. Any deficiency can compromise outcomes and hinder long-term organizational progress.
Despite the critical importance of promotional assessments, some agencies assign this responsibility to internal personnel who lack specialized experience and must manage the process in addition to their regular duties.
Others outsource assessments to external providers that rely on virtual interviews or evaluations, limiting an assessor’s ability to observe body language, posture, situational awareness, and interpersonal presence—key indicators of leadership, command presence, and credibility. In many cases, these providers further weaken the process by relying on last-minute panel selections or inexperienced evaluators, undermining consistency, reliability, and defensibility.
Professional Promotions Assessment Group provides comprehensive promotional assessment services for law enforcement agencies seeking to identify and advance qualified personnel into supervisory and command positions.
We design, develop, and administer structured, job-related evaluation processes that measure leadership competencies, operational knowledge, decision-making ability, and ethical judgment.
Our assessments are tailored to each agency’s rank structure, policies, and organizational goals, and may include written examinations, oral boards, scenario-based exercises, and assessment center components.
All processes are conducted in accordance with recognized law enforcement standards and best practices to ensure fairness, consistency, legal defensibility, and reliability.
Our objective is to support agencies in making informed, merit-based promotional decisions that strengthen leadership and organizational effectiveness.
Professional Promotions Assessment Group is led by seasoned experts in law enforcement assessment and evaluation.
Our assessment panels consist of three trained raters and a proctor, bringing together more than 65 years of combined law enforcement experience and over 40 years of assessment center experience.
Panel members have served in, managed, or led a wide range of law enforcement functions, including administration, SWAT, criminal investigations, traffic operations, patrol, field training and evaluation programs, training and recruitment, street crimes units, commendation boards, and use-of-force review processes.
This depth and breadth of experience ensures informed, objective, and credible promotional evaluations.
We strive to stay in communication with our clients. Have a question about our business, or want to see if we match your specific needs? Send us a message. We're always happy to meet new customers!
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