Fancy a transfer... to Australia?

metman

Western Australia Police

Front-line policing opportunities

Organisation: Western Australia Police
Title: Front-line policing opportunities
Location: Other
Contact Email:
Contact URL: www.stepforward.wa.gov.au

Ready to take your career in a new direction?

How about West?

Western Australia offers a magnificent lifestyle for families and singles that is second to none, including a top quality education system, a thriving economy and one of the highest police salaries in Australia.

Many front-line policing opportunities exist for police officers with 3 to 7 years experience who are currently serving within the United Kingdom and Ireland. A career with the WA Police offers recognition of prior service, a transitional academy course of only 12 weeks (with pay) and accelerated promotional opportunities to eligible officers. Plus, Permanent Residency is given to all successful applicants!

In February 2009, WA Police Recruitment Officers will be coming to the United Kingdom to select officers for this existing opportunity. If you'd like to enjoy the lifestyle that Western Australia has to offer, then step forward and apply at www.stepforward.wa.gov.au Hurry applications close 7th December 2008.

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deadwood

I New South Wales did someting similar here a few years ago. Don't think there were too many successful applicants, though.

"What's that Skippy, there's no breakfast rolls in Kookaburra? Well gostickyerheadupadeadbearsbum!"

Eru

2 lads from my place applied and one went. They picked the wrong one in my opinion but there you go.

The problem is, people are settled, have families houses etc and also, you need to ask the question, why dont the Australians want the job?

metman

Yeah that's what I'm always left wondering. Here and in Ireland the job is oversubscribed with thousands applying for a small number of jobs. Not so in certain parts of Australia or Canada where they're having to import cops with promises of a better life......hmmm.

TheNog

Karlitosway1978 wrote: »

why dont the Australians want the job?

Ar you gonna answer the question or just leave us all guessing??:p


Anyone know of anyone who went and what they thought of it?

I'm thinking of going in a few years when the little people in my house leave me alone. The only problem I have is that one in Lost, the Australian one. Her accent wrecks my head. She looks good but she wrecks my head.

Eru

TheNog wrote: »

Ar you gonna answer the question or just leave us all guessing??:p

The lad that went is happy enough but where he works your sent out in a mobile station every so iften. Dont ask the details but its something like a big van that tours around the minor villages and other remote areas. He doesnt like that part of it.

metman wrote: »

Yeah that's what I'm always left wondering. Here and in Ireland the job is oversubscribed with thousands applying for a small number of jobs. Not so in certain parts of Australia or Canada where they're having to import cops with promises of a better life......hmmm.

This is it. Ultimately its all the same job no matter where. I know certain places in the states have started to officially ignore certain previous convictions. Once your clean for x amount of years and there was no prison involved you can apply. Crazy!

deadwood

I applied, but failed on the raised-inflection part.

ScubaDave

The advert is in the back of the Garda Review this month!

TheNog

deadwood wrote: »

failed on the raised-inflection part.

???? EXPLAIN?????

AlekSmart

Ah deadwood i gotcha

.....Ma Byrne my French teacher in Denmark St Tech, would gently beat a tatoo on my head with her copy of Ecouter et Parler whilst saying....

"Come come now,you simply cannot speak REAL French in a flah dubbelin accent"

sunnyjim

TheNog wrote: »

???? EXPLAIN?????

Ever hear the Aussies?! They raise the pitch of their voice at the end of half of their sentences. They start the other half on a higher pitch!!

deadwood

TheNog wrote: »

???? EXPLAIN?????

The raised inflection is that annoying habit? where, in the middle of a sentence? people raise their pitch, as if they are asking a question? (sometime punctuated with the once fashionable, Eastenders mockney, "yeah?" - still popular amongst RTE "down with the kids" scriptwriters, yeah?)

It was popular in Australian soaps and caught on here. The [EMAIL="f@$king"]f@$king[/EMAIL] hilarious sitcom,Friends compounded the problem. It's also a Californian thing.

It's their way of stressing to the poor unfortunate who has to listen to them drone on about how, "it's like, sooo difficult to get Uggs that, basically, match the interior of Fiaclas' Golf GT? You know the one his mom bought him for, like, nearly making the second string last year?" - that they are not finished their sentence, so you don't interrupt them midway.

It became trendy a few years ago and stuck. It's use is directly proportional to the amount of people who went to the Ross O'Carroll Kelly/Lorraine Keane/ AA Roadwatch presenter school of elocution although they were born and bred in deepest Roscommon.

I don't analyse these things much.

eroo

Deadwood's argument for being a culchie! We just speak in a monotonous tone which does not vary in pitch. And we don't have Fiacla, his name is Fiacra ffs!

But seriously, would many Gardai consider the transfer or something similiar?

deadwood

I'd be in there like a rat up a drainpipe, if they took me. Mrs Deadwood however. . . .:mad:

eroo

deadwood wrote: »

I'd be in there like a rat up a drainpipe, if they took me. Mrs Deadwood however. . . .:mad:

Really? What would attract you to it do ya mind me asking?:)

deadwood

eroo wrote: »

Really? What would attract you to it do ya mind me asking?:)

Ask away young eroo!

Apart from melonoma?

I'd love a change. That's all. From what I hear from my antipodean friends, quality of life is better.

Travel (real travel) and work abroad is good for us, I think.

If I was free and single, i'd apply. Same for U.N. posts, PSNI placements etc.

I enjoy my job here. It'd be nice to do it in better weather!

eroo

Thanks for the insight deadwood!!

flyton5

meh.....i dont think australia is as good as its made out to be....a lad from tallaght went out and came back within a year.....they told him he'd be in a town station but suddenly found himself in a rural outpost(what....police management lying?? NEVER!!)......finding urself working 200miles from anywhere interesting in a small hick town isnt my idea of a good career move.....

besides i lived there for a bit and the tv is terrible.....ad breaks every 10mins....grown men crying on tv(during PAID interviews....$500 to cry your eyes out).....daytime tv is worse than what we have here.....

also they dont have brown sauce.....

FGR

I'd love to do this job abroad..however Australia isn't my cup of tea. I'd prefer the US, Canada or even the PSNI.

cushtac

Bloke I know did this & says it's a good gig. The pay is decent, promotion prospects are pretty good and foreign entrants get their choice of station.

It's also worth noting that Western Australia covers an area of around 2.5 million square km, with that amount of ground to police it's not hard to see why they'd seek to bolster their numbers.

metman

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