Introduction

The Operational Fitness Training Area is one of the fitness training venues of the College. Completed in 1999, it has a two-lane jogging track of 400 metres that meets the standards of international athletics bodies. Apart from serving as a physical fitness training ground for police officers, it is also where trainees do the Professional Physical Ability Test (PPAT), which aims to assess trainees’ ability to pass through obstacles when performing duties. There are low and high walls, as well as facilities for shuttle run, crawling under rope mesh, running up and down stairs, and room entry and casualty evacuation, in order to simulate the scenarios in which police officers may need to pass through obstacles and crowds on busy streets when they are on patrol or chasing suspects in urban and rural areas. To make sure that frontline police officers can meet the physical fitness standards as required by the job, PPAT is one of the examinations that trainees must pass.