Police Promote

Police Promote is a coaching and study-material company in Chino Hills, California, aimed at sworn officers working toward promotion from sergeant through captain and above. Captain Andrew Borrello runs it, and the selling point throughout the catalogue is his time on the rater side of oral boards: the material is built around how panels actually score the people in front of them. The audience is one population and one task. Everything narrows to that.

Mock interviews and oral board coaching

The mock interview is the part worth dwelling on, because it is where the company's whole premise either pays off or does not. Rehearsing under pressure with someone who has graded boards is a different exercise from practicing alone or running through answers with a colleague who has never sat on a panel. Police Promote sells one-on-one mock interviews, oral interview coaching, and training seminars built around the same logic, with content on communication strategies for the oral board, the mechanics of how raters assemble a score, and leadership scenarios of the kind assessment centers tend to probe.

Free resources before purchase

If the coach's read on the rubric is sound, an officer gets feedback calibrated to the room they will actually walk into. That is the claim the service rises or falls on, and a buyer can test a slice of it cheaply before paying for the coaching, because the storefront is not the only thing on the site: a blog and a resources section carry free material, so the quality of the thinking is readable before any money changes hands.

Pricing structure

The rest of the offer is straightforward. Three tiers anchor what Police Promote sells. The "Police Promotion Super Course" book is $50 on its own; bundling it with a Resource Guide brings the total to $65, so the add-on is a flat $15. A Professional Resume Service from Police Promote runs $300 and produces customized resume work tailored to a specific command rank, which is labor-intensive enough to explain the figure. All of these prices are stated upfront, with no layered upsells hiding the real number, and the $50 book gives a low-cost way in well below the $300 tier. Contact details sit in plain view too: a Chino Hills street address, a phone number, an email, and a Facebook page, none of it buried behind a form.

Limited online reviews

Outside validation is the soft spot. The Yelp listing at the Chino Hills address shows no star rating and no review count. The Facebook page reads "Not yet rated" with a single review logged. Google, Trustpilot, BBB, and Glassdoor returned nothing for Police Promote. The company does publish curated testimonials from officers, which are useful for flavor but are not independent and should be read as the company's own selection. Part of this likely traces to the customer base: serving police officers preparing to move up, the company sells to people who have obvious reasons not to post in public about their career steps. So the empty review trail does not by itself condemn the service.

How to evaluate the service

Where that leaves a prospective buyer depends on what they need. The published specifics already settle a fair amount: the pricing is legible, the contact information is open, the subject-matter focus is genuinely narrow, and the background of the man behind Police Promote lines up with the work. An officer who wants to gauge the substance can do it directly by reading the free blog and the $50 book before spending more. What the published record cannot supply is corroboration from anyone outside the company, and for a coaching purchase that runs to $300 some buyers will reasonably want that before paying. For them the move is not to find a louder competitor but to spend the $50 first and let the free material decide it.