January 2020 Recruitment.

strawberrychick · 18-01-2022 4:51pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118140771#Comment_118140771

Elninotdog · 19-01-2022 10:27am

Anyone get a call yet?

DDGS7 · 19-01-2022 11:10am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118498416#Comment_118498416

Have they gone out yet?

Newyearnewjob · 19-01-2022 11:23am

Don't think they have. This final step seems to be taking ages.

DDGS7 · 19-01-2022 12:21pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118498749#Comment_118498749

Yeah they're taking their time this month

Elninotdog · 19-01-2022 2:19pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118498416#Comment_118498416

Not that I know off, was asking incase people had heard and I hadn’t

Gda88 · 19-01-2022 3:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118495430#Comment_118495430

Did it give a reason why? PM if you want

Newyearnewjob · 19-01-2022 4:17pm

I emailed recruitment for an update. Confirmed I am appointable and it goes in merit order. Said they are waiting on confirmation of when next course will be. Maybe there isn't a March intake.

DDGS7 · 19-01-2022 5:33pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118500702#Comment_118500702

This makes me very anxious

DDGS7 · 21-01-2022 2:09pm

What's the odds of calls next week ?

pcchap · 21-01-2022 5:12pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118511731#Comment_118511731

I spoke to recruitment today on the phone, while they couldn't give me any dates on next intake it didn't seem like it would be soon. But again, they couldn't give much away on the call other than to confirm I'm appointable and they are working on the rest.

21-01-2022 7:57pm

They are never going to confirm future intakes they are always going to just give the same response. It’s just a case of wait till your called, it will come it’s just being patient which I don’t think any of us are by this point lol!

pcchap · 22-01-2022 8:26am

seems the next intake of recruits has been postponed...That article on BBC News was a kick in the teeth...Doesn't quite say if March intake is just deferred to April or what the plan is but seems we are in for another delay.

lornzeo99 · 22-01-2022 8:45am

Just seen they have now paused the recruitment 😔 this is so disappointing. I’m just waiting on my medical but I guess that won’t happen now either if they aren’t going to recruit anymore?

DDGS7 · 22-01-2022 10:02am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118516110#Comment_118516110

BBC News - PSNI postpones recruitment of 85 officers over finances

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-60091835

lornzeo99 · 22-01-2022 10:03am

It’s all over the news! Because the funding has been cut they have now stopped who should have been starting garneville in March. 85 officers. Doesn’t say when it will be restarting either. So basically everything is back on hold with no time frame of how long this will be for 😔

lornzeo99 · 22-01-2022 10:04am

pcjar · 22-01-2022 10:14am

With any luck for anyone waiting this is short term and the finances can be secured to get some recruitment up and running soon.

lornzeo99 · 22-01-2022 10:17am

They aren’t going to keep going with the 2021 campaign surely if they aren’t taking us after the money they have spent getting us this far? So gutting for the people that should have been in the March intake. Hopefully with the press all over this they will secure funding to begin again in April, but I guess it’s just a waiting game now

DDGS7 · 22-01-2022 10:18am

If I had to pull a positive, it says some form of recruitment is preferable. Maybe pull folk through in smaller numbers to keep it moving?

There's nothing that explicably says that nobody will go through

pcchap · 22-01-2022 10:31am

Yes it doesn't seem they are cancelling recruitment but only deferring it by a month, cut March spending which the article says is 5 million which saves the required amount off the Annual budget and back at it in April perhaps, just pushes everything back another month and no more with any luck...so I hope anyway.

Newyearnewjob · 22-01-2022 10:34am

My main issue is lack of communication from recruitment. A few of us contacted them last week to ask for an update. Common decency would have been to give all applicants an update without hearing it in the news.

lornzeo99 · 22-01-2022 10:40am

The lack of communication throughout the entire campaign has been a disgrace. For recruits to find this out through a Facebook news page just isn’t good enough after what we go through to get to this stage. Here’s hoping it continues in April and that they will pump in more money to keep policing numbers at a safe level.

22-01-2022 12:15pm

It just says postponed and it’s not finalised, I highly doubt it will be cancelled with a new campaign on the back burner, as they will have to exhaust our merit list before they even start looking at bringing in anyone from the next campaign. It’s just another wait, if those 85 have to wait til April to start then what’s a month on top of what we’ve waited, it is frustrating but it’s completely out of our control at the end of the day, also April is the start of the financial year so they will be getting their new budget 🤷🏽‍♂️

Elninotdog · 22-01-2022 2:43pm

Gutted to say the least. Hopefully it’s just another setback rather than a complete end. Guess we will have to ride out the wait

22-01-2022 2:46pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118516998#Comment_118516998

It will be just a set back it’s very unlikely to be a complete end

Elninotdog · 22-01-2022 3:54pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118517008#Comment_118517008

I hope you’re right. I’m kinda glad I hadn’t received the call and handed in my notice at my current job, would hate to be in that position

OldBenTheHermit · 22-01-2022 3:58pm

They’ll not scrap recruitment completely, just more delays unfortunately. Doesn’t make sense for them to have wasted the money on a recruitment campaign and start up another one just to scrap them completely. I’d say the unfortunate March cohort are being used as the point to drive home that the government promised to increase numbers and have then 1 year later turn around and cut funding. We’ve waited 2 years, just a bit longer to go

Newyearnewjob · 22-01-2022 4:21pm

I take it nobody actually got called about a start date. I am guessing they mean there are 82 appointable.

johnny990 · 22-01-2022 5:21pm

Hope people didn't get the call and have handed notice in for their present job.

January 2020 Recruitment.

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