Ada County Sheriff's Office interview questions

I applied online and heard from the HR representative the very next day. She scheduled me for the oral board interview a couple of days later. The oral board interview was with 2 supervisors and I'm not sure what the other lady did - she might have been the supervisor's supervisor, I'm not sure. They asked a lot of questions - from a form - and they all wrote down all the answers. The next day I received an email saying that I was selected to move forward and that they had assigned me to a background investigator. There was a lot of information to put together for that meeting (with the background investigator): ID cards, college transcripts, college degree, birth certificate, marriage certificate, kids' birth certificates, pages and pages of detailed information on family, history of anything you have done wrong ever. And then I met with the background investigator about a week later to go over that. We went through all the paperwork. And then she took me down for fingerprints and scheduled my polygraph test. The polygraph test. Wow. It's a 5-hour ordeal. They interview you for 4 hours and then the actual lie detector test is less than an hour. The whole thing is somewhat uncomfortable. Having to talk about your sex life and any misdeeds you did when you were young and other deeply personal information. It's like one long therapy or confession session. It's draining. A week later I received a form letter via email: While we greatly appreciate the time you spent applying for this position, you have not been selected receive a firm employment offer. Many factors are taken into account when determining a candidate's suitability for employment with our agency. Your application has been carefully considered. In order to protect the integrity of our hiring process, regrettably we cannot provide you with further information. It's a long and arduous process for a low paying job and they don't tell you what knocked you out of contention.

After applying online I received an email with about three pages of detail queations. After filling out the quadtions and sending them in they decided who they wanted to interview at which time I was scheduled. Met with two individuals, one was the previous holder of the open position but now the supervisor. The second person was the first persons supervisor. Only problem was is that they apparently had an internal person already in mind for the position.