About PolicePrep

Founded by a Police Officer

The idea was born during an MBA program at the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University. Adam Cooper, who had worked in standardized test preparation, was chatting with classmate Deland Jessop — a former constable with the Toronto Police Service. Jessop knew firsthand that aspiring officers had no Canadian-specific materials to prepare for police entrance exams. As Cooper later told the National Post: “Things just clicked.”

Together with their third classmate Kalpesh Rathod, they built Canada's first online police test preparation platform in 2002. The insight was simple: Canadian colleges taught police foundations students how to do the job — but not how to pass the entrance exam to get hired. PolicePrep filled that gap by consulting directly with police forces and people who had gone through the hiring process.

After dozens of rejections, PolicePrep landed its first institutional partner — Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario — in 2003. That breakthrough opened the door to partnerships across the country, and PolicePrep has been helping aspiring officers ever since.

Today, PolicePrep has prepared over 15,000 candidates, partners with 15+ colleges across Canada, and offers practice exams for every major Canadian police entrance test — from the OACP in Ontario to the RCMP's RPAT, Alberta's APCAT, BC's ETHOS, Saskatchewan's SIGMA, and more.