Applicants must also have a current Department shooting bonus. Supervisory personnel in Metropolitan Division thoroughly investigate each applicant. All applicants are interviewed and, if approved, are placed on an eligibility list. The Division actively promotes LAPD's diversity goals in personnel recruitment and advancement. The personnel assigned to Metropolitan Division receive intensive training in numerous police functions.
Considerable time is devoted to crowd management and advanced tactical weapons training.
Metropolitan Division also spends hundreds of hours a year providing advanced training to other members of the Department.