PSNI Recruitment (Archived)

soozb82

OfficerProblem? wrote: »

Hang on in there buddy! I'm sure you are sick of people saying that but it is all you can do :rolleyes:

I presume you have had your medical? Some peeps are only getting called for their medical now! What a long wait! :eek:

I have had all my boxes ticked (including vetting) for 3 weeks now and still aint heard a thing. Still playing that old waiting game

All us old campaign 13ers are right there with you

Thanks, I was doing myh best to keep calm and patient, and had been doing so well, then it just exploded the other day! Ignorance was bliss!!

soozb82

Also Officer Problem, if you don't mind me asking, how did you find out your vetting was complete? Did they inform you or did you just happen to phone up? Ta

OfficerProblem?

soozb82 wrote: »

Also Officer Problem, if you don't mind me asking, how did you find out your vetting was complete? Did they inform you or did you just happen to phone up? Ta

No worries - When i rang them i asked for my merit number and i think i just asked them what stage my application was at and they told me that my vetting was complete and they had the results in for my medical.

But that's all they could tell me

Ethan321

Jim2008, yes its worth the wait, and as far as i am aware they will still be taking people from the last capmpaign up to and including October.
Its hard work but its short term pain for long term gain;)

goodcopbadcop

So technically there could be people from campaign 14 joining up around same time as people from campaign 13?

People being taken in during october will have had a crazy amount of waiting to do.

goodcopbadcop

Are people from campaign 12 still being taken in also? :eek:

fencingj

Ethan321 wrote: »

Jim2008, yes its worth the wait, and as far as i am aware they will still be taking people from the last capmpaign up to and including October.
Its hard work but its short term pain for long term gain;)

I think when Ethan said "last campaign" he might have meant campaign 13!!

Ethan321

Exactamundo! i meant campaign 13, the current campaign is 14. People from campaign 14 will apparently be taken in from late october onwards so those in 13 still have time to get the foot in the door yet.

goodcopbadcop

Thats what I thought. Someone said 12, and i thought they were still taking in people from that far back.

MustBeCrazy

Hi everyone, I'm new to the board and have been browsing for the past couple of days. I've applied to campaign 14 and my selection test is on 23 April. I wonder if any serving officers could help me with a couple of things...I am a mum to 4 children aged from 11 months to 10 years. My husband would like to take over the main caring of the kids should I be successful in this campaign and start full time work. He would reduce his hours to look after them and my sister who is a registered childminder could make up the rest. I wonder though, how the people in charge of recruitment would view someone in my position with so many dependents with regards to offering full time work? In other words, would they rule me out? Also, obviously leaving my children for residential training is a concern if it was for a prolonged period. Could you tell me exactly how much time I would have to spend away from them? If it is just the first 4 weeks of training, that would be fine, but if it's the full 20 weeks, it would be difficult. Thanks for any advice, and sorry for this very long message - I tend to ramble!

Shield

The first 4 weeks ONLY are residential, plus you get to go home at the weekends so it's not that bad. You could be with your family Friday night, Saturday night and Sunday night and return to the college the following morning if that suited you.

There is no possible way they can discriminate against anybody with a family. Pass the Initial Selection Test, Assessment Centre, Vetting and Medical, get a high enough position in the merit pool and you're in. There is no interview at any stage. You would be treated like everyone else who applied, so get that out of your mind completely.

It won't be easy being away from your family during the week PLUS having study to do over the weekend when you're home. Make sure your partner knows you will be expected to study at home every night even after the first 4 weeks. A lot of Student Officers remain at the college to get their study done there after 5pm because there are too many distractions at home. That might be worth considering if you get in.

Best of luck!

MustBeCrazy wrote: »

Hi everyone, I'm new to the board and have been browsing for the past couple of days. I've applied to campaign 14 and my selection test is on 23 April. I wonder if any serving officers could help me with a couple of things...I am a mum to 4 children aged from 11 months to 10 years. My husband would like to take over the main caring of the kids should I be successful in this campaign and start full time work. He would reduce his hours to look after them and my sister who is a registered childminder could make up the rest. I wonder though, how the people in charge of recruitment would view someone in my position with so many dependents with regards to offering full time work? In other words, would they rule me out? Also, obviously leaving my children for residential training is a concern if it was for a prolonged period. Could you tell me exactly how much time I would have to spend away from them? If it is just the first 4 weeks of training, that would be fine, but if it's the full 20 weeks, it would be difficult. Thanks for any advice, and sorry for this very long message - I tend to ramble!

MustBeCrazy

Thanks for the reply PSNI, it's very reassuring. I'm would also be interested in applying for a part time police officer position if any arise, but I've been keeping an eye on the Consensia site and there have been no part time campaigns since 2006. This would be ideal for a year or two until all my girls are at school and a full time position would be much easier. I would love to work for the PSNI though, so don't want to leave it too long in case I'm ruled out for being too old!
Thanks again, your previous replies on this board have really helped with the many questions I had.

Mandy Moo

Hi Everyone!

Can I ask a question re the vetting?

Do we have to write down every single address we have ever lived at for the last 20 years?

I have moved about so much in the last 10 years, plus been travelling all over Europe.....so how do I go about filling out all that info, plus all of the addresses I have forgotten over the years?!!:)

redsurfer

hi all

i going out of my tree wondering when we can be let know if i / we are in for may so does any one out there have any idea when the calls and letters going out, some date that i can look to,

i am going mad very fast here:eek::eek::eek: ( REDRUM, REDRUM ) waiting and my hopes are very high about getting in for may

OfficerProblem?

redsurfer wrote: »

hi all

i going out of my tree wondering when we can be let know if i / we are in for may so does any one out there have any idea when the calls and letters going out, some date that i can look to,

i am going mad very fast here:eek::eek::eek: ( REDRUM, REDRUM ) waiting and my hopes are very high about getting in for may

Bingo I to have also gone crazy :pac:

I would say it has to be within the next week or 2. If the intake is 25th May and they give approx 4/5 weeks notice??

Is your vetting complete?

redsurfer

hi i never called them i just went of what people here said and i some friends in the gardai so my one was sorted a while ago, i belive

Mandy Moo

Hi Redsurfer,

Can I ask a question re the vetting?

Do we have to write down every single address we have ever lived at for the last 20 years?

I have moved about so much in the last 10 years, plus been travelling all over Europe.....so how do I go about filling out all that info, plus all of the addresses I have forgotten over the years?!!


I lived in the ROI for some years also, does the vetting take long to come back up from there?

OfficerProblem?

I would ring recruitment and ask for some advice on that one

redsurfer

my one was done within a few moths so not to bad. i would advice put down every last one of your address and if you cant remember make every effort to get the address, failing that state the dates and a rough idea of where you here and what you were doing in that time frame

thats what i would do:)

Mandy Moo

Really?

What kind of things must we put down in the vetting? Is it the exact addresses/postcodes etc?

What if you had been renting rooms from students etc for years while travelling?

redsurfer

everything dont leave a thing out or it may very well comeback to get u

soozb82

Mandy Moo wrote: »

Really?

What kind of things must we put down in the vetting? Is it the exact addresses/postcodes etc?

What if you had been renting rooms from students etc for years while travelling?

Sorry to give you bad news, but when I filled in my vetting I had a few uni addresses and for one I didn't have the postcode, and they wrote to me requesting it, so I think you really will need to get as much info as you can! Not that it has helped my case, cos I'm STILL waiting anyway!!

Mandy Moo

Thanks Redsurfer!

Am slightly worried now, however if I get that far in the process then I will start worrying about it properly!

Just the amount of travelling I was doing and I dont have any addresses for the hostels etc. I was just going from one place to the next!

Mandy Moo

Hi Soozb,

Thanks for your reply.

What else do they ask in the vetting form?

I will really have to sit down and think a lot to remember my addresses, as I think I have had over 30 in 10 years!!

OMG!!

soozb82

As far as I remember, it was your own addresses for the last 20 year (& your partner if you have one), plus addresses for your parents and siblings for the last 10 years, and if your siblings have partners theirs too. If you have stepparents add them to the mix, and any kids, neices or nephews.

So I hope for your sake you come from a small family of childless singletons!

MrsGeneHunt

I filled in a vetting form for Grafton for the Support team and they told me it would take up to 14 weeks:eek:

I'm sure the PSNI one is similar if not indentical so I would say thats a fair time frame to base it on.

If the first intake of C14 is gonna be late Octoberish as has been mentioned here previously, they will have to be on the ball with Vetting and Medicals.:rolleyes:

Think we all need to practice mellowing out over the coming months, this lot from C13 are climbing the walls

Mandy Moo

MrsGeneHunt,

Thanks for your reply....

Yeah all that waiting sounds like a nightmare. And I am so impatient at the best of times!

I hope that Campaign 14 is a bit faster moving than the last one.

All those poor guys doing all that waiting. I would be tearing my hair out....:eek:

JVB

Hi all, been watching board on and off lately. Trying not to go stir crazy myself by thinking over every conceivable possibility of failure in this campaign. No word from vetting yet (sent off Nov 07) - just that it is 'ongoing.' Passed all other aspects of process (med in Feb.)
As with everyone else in this position, PSNI know who we are and are trying to obtain security clearance and process us as efficiently as possible, we just have to be patient. Our time will come, be positive y'all!

JVB

Monkeymagic824

It has been mentioned that in the vetting it asked for addresses for the past 20 years, i was only asked for the last 10 years

JVB

leegibson7 wrote: »

It has been mentioned that in the vetting it asked for addresses for the past 20 years, i was only asked for the last 10 years

Lee. The PSNI asked for 20 years for myself + spouse/civil partner & 10 years for parents/parents in law etc.

JVB