Recruit Prison Officer 2020

Sylvia2013 wrote: »

Were you wanting long for the security clearance, from when you sent it off to hearing back? I'm hearing a lot of different things from people, anything from 10 weeks to 18 months. Not sure what to believe..

Ya it's very inconsistent with each application different because of information supplied or living outside the state for a period of time so everyones timeline will be different unfortunately.

Rachel03069320 wrote: »

I'm still waiting on my clearance from March 2019

3 years???

Just sent off my clearance, has anyone that has sent it off in late 2020/early 2021 heard back yet?? How long did it take for ye? And any word on a physical/medical for ye yet??

Has anyone heard anything from the 2020 program

AllthingsCP wrote: »

I'm from the 2020 recruitment just waiting on clearance.

Have you the fitness done ?

Benchwarmer23 wrote: »

The lack of communication from ips is frustrating, I understand there’s a pandemic going on but you’d think they’d keep you somewhat updated with possible dates of fitness/medical etc...

This is nothing,wait till it’s only clearance your waiting on!

Haven't heard anything its really in our best interests to forget about it until we get an email I am not expectimg to be called for fitness til the end of the summer and dont expect my clearance to be back til 2022 realistically.

Ironhead93 wrote: »

Is there any reason why the clearance takes so long? my friend joined the garda and his clearance was back in 2 months and i'd imagine the garda clearance is much more thorough.

Probably cos they don't need us for another year or so with all the recruits they have already.

Smahony wrote: »

I sent my clearenx away last Oct. rang in January told it could be 12-18 months away before I’d hear anything back. Then got email 2/3 weeks ago with my clearance back. I think getting it back is like picking the lottery no’s But I’ve heard no more since.

5 months isn't bad, I've got no family abroad and no criminal record so hope it won't take too long.

Interested to know how many people in this forum succesfully completed the medical stage deadline by yesterday?

Ironhead93 wrote: »

Didn't hear anything about a deadline, I did my interview in March and sent off clearance and still waiting on medical appointment

Once you get invited for a Medical/Audiogram I believe they give you 28 days to get them done, deadlines are at an individual basis, it just gives the IPS enough candidates for the next stage PCT, worst case if you did miss the deadline just phone then up, they will just send out more emails etc, it’s not a big deal, nothing to stress about

Sylvia2013 wrote: »

I had my interview in February with clearance forms sent first week in March. Haven't heard a thing since.

Same boat, are we waiting for a medical date or security clearance to come back because it was pointed out to me that it might not be tje smartest thing to send a load of hopefuls for fitness if they may not even pass their clearance?

Just got invited to start my medical, have a question about the health questionnaire if anyone else has done it?

Hi, did anyone else get called for role play exercise? Anyone who’s done it before what can I expect?

I see some people mentioning 80k a year (with overtime) for the salary of a prison officer. Is this though?

The information booklet outlines the basic salary of:

Salary
As of 1 January 2020 the following salary scale applies to Recruit Prison Officers:
PPC €29,928.00 €31,101.00 €33,852.00
NORMAL MAX

I find it kind of optimistic to be thinking you'd accumulate enough overtime to earn 50k?

What're your opinions?