Cooper 300 m Run: Source and Display Method
- Source label: Law Enforcement Studies data. The table does not identify one academy, sampling frame, collection period, or sample size.
- Coverage: men are shown through 50-59 and women through 40-49. The source gives no reason for the missing older female rows.
- Direction: the site stores values in ascending numeric order, so faster times appear in the lower numeric columns.
- Meaning: percentile rank is descriptive and is not evidence of a minimum fitness level required for a job.
The current numeric table was manually corrected before this review and is preserved exactly. Automated OCR and reviewer readings of scanned images are used to flag differences, not to overwrite a published value. Permanent checks lock the reviewed data and verify its age-page and trend copies.
The field procedure is checked against the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy 300 m protocol and Pennsylvania MPOETC directions. Those sources specify a flat measured course, maximal effort, timing to a tenth of a second, and a walking cooldown.