Law Enforcement & Security Applicant Inventory™ (LESAI™)

The LESAI report provides a visual profile of candidate scores across all LESAI scales, highlighting strengths and potential risk areas. It includes an overall Candidate Potential Index to summarize fit for law enforcement or security roles, validity check results to ensure interpretability, and positive/negative indicators that call out attitudes aligned with—or misaligned from—public safety expectations. Reporting is straightforward, standardized, and designed for fast, consistent hiring decisions.

Reliability

Validity

Validation research with both law enforcement and security candidates demonstrates the LESAI's effectiveness and accuracy as a selection tool. Scores on the Police Orientation scale align meaningfully with self-reported personality traits and key conduct behaviors, such as rejecting illegal drug use and demonstrating intolerance for theft. Similar patterns emerged in a sample of 1,734 security guard applicants, where LESAI attitudes were associated with self-admitted counterproductive behaviors, including theft and dishonesty. Together, these results provide clear convergent validity evidence that the LESAI captures the attitudes and behavioral tendencies most relevant to success and integrity in public safety and protective services roles.

Fairness

Fairness of the LESAI scales regarding various demographic groups is well established by numerous studies in a wide range of business and industry sectors. Additional fairness analyses were carried out based on more than 500 law enforcement and security candidates. The results show that candidate recommendation rates by LESAI scales individually and combined all surpass the 80% selection ratio guidelines in accordance with prevailing policy of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

LESAI norms are derived from an extensive body of data collected over more than three decades from both job candidates and incumbents in law enforcement and security settings. This long-standing, practice-based foundation reflects the behavioral demands unique to public safety and protective services roles. As a result, LESAI scores support precise, job-relevant comparisons and enable organizations to confidently distinguish high-caliber candidates during pre-offer evaluations of role suitability.

Access and use the LESAI via an MHS portal or integrate with other systems, such as an application tracking system (ATS) or a candidate selection workflow. Agencies can interpret scores immediately, using scale profiles, risk flags, and candidate indices to guide follow-up interviews, background checks, or onboarding decisions.