Which fire departments and Police departments do not require a
polygraph test to get the job? Just a general list would work of the
cities that do not require a polygraph test to obtain the job. Please
have the fire departments seperated from the police departments in
your answer. The longer the list the better. Thank you!

Example:Put the cities that do (not require the polygraph test to get the job)

Fire departments:          Police departments:
Las vegas                  Syracuse
New york                   Las vegas

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Clarification of Question by americana27-ga on 08 Apr 2003 23:52 PDT

Oh, if you could find some throughout washington state that would be
great too. You dont have to, but it would be nice. =-) Thanks!

Greetings, americana27!

While the validity of polygraph tests in court cases is considered
questionable, when it comes to hiring for law enforcement and other
public service agencies, they are used with great frequency -- and
quite legally -- as a screening tool.

It my understanding that the vast majority of Fire Departments and
Police Departments these days use polygraph tests to aid in their
selection of candidates, to avoid problems that have occurred in the
past where "firebugs" (people who get off on starting fires) and
various kinds of people who engage in criminal activities have gotten
positions with fire departments and police departments. These days,
I'm guessing that departments which do NOT do this are extremely rare.

Note the following results, mostly from pages describing the
application process for specific fire and police departments around
the country:

"fire department" polygraph (1,950 results)
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22fire+department%22+polygraph&btnG=Google+Search

"police department" polygraph (10,800 results)
://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=%22police+department%22+polygraph&btnG=Google+Search

Regards,

aceresearcher