MPCTC Automatic Background Disqualifiers (For Police Officer Candidate Applicants)
  1. No felony convictions
  2. No serious misdemeanor convictions; defined as any crime that would carry more than a 1-year incarceration
  3. Can not have ever illegally sold, produced, cultivated, distributed, or transported a controlled dangerous substance, narcotic drug, or marijuana
  4. Can not have ever illegally used a controlled dangerous substance, narcotic drug, or marijuana while employed to enforce federal, state, or local law by any government entity
  5. No use of heroin, phencyclidine (PCP), or lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
  6. No controlled dangerous substance use within three years of application (including marijuana)
  7. No more than four (4) uses of controlled dangerous substances in a lifetime and no use after the age of twenty-one (21) (not including marijuana)