January 2020 Recruitment.

It'll be a few more years in payscale for myself for the 2 or 3 holidays a year🤣🤣 but ofcourse this job requires more of you than other jobs. You get detailed OT and there's no saying no. Held back hours after your meant to finish etc.

Top rate cons £41,130 plus NITA £3492 (Total £44,622)

Newly promoted Sergeant £43,965 plus NITA £3492 (Total £47,457)

Aye those wages are good and yes we'll all get to the top rate con pay eventually and it's a very gold salary considering you only need 5 GCSEs, even better when you add CRTP after a year.

And all Overtime cane be taken as TOIL instead of cash which is pretty cool.

I love my job, it's the best Job in the world. But this job does take over life.

1. You may have friends that you can't be friends with anymore.

2. You see and hear things that you wouldn't believe. And sometimes it's pretty horrible.

3. There's places you can't go anymore. And for some that's even more pronounced.

4. over time with no notice, ehich you can try and get rid off but if you have certains skills the number of people you can offload that too is small.

5. Being held on over and over and over means you have to bin plans.

6. There's no guarantee you'll get certain important dates off. Family birthdays, anniversaries etc. Which most plan for, and i've been particularly lucky as I get that leave in early but we all have things that just pop up. Point 5 feeds into this.

7. You literally can't do some things anymore

8. Stress of work inadvertantly bleeds into family life and you have to work hard to get that healthy balance.

9. Media constantly battering your profession. We know the reality and can generally ignore the tabloid nonsense but it's still less than ideal.

10. Public sector pay awards have been obliterated for the last 10 years.

I love my job, literally the best decision I made joining the Police but it's not all roses. It comes in peaks and troughs and tbh I work with some amazing people that make the troughs so much easier to get through.

The public perception that we earn tonnes of money and live in amazing houses and drive flash cars isn't the reality for most.

Entirely depends on your taxcode

If there's no break in service you'll keep your pay point in GV

And won't have a probation to serve but the 3 year distrixt commitment will apply

@RECRUIT2018 are u going to start GV August? Or you still on a waiting list?

I just wasn't sure if you got offer or not. So we are waiting for a call 🙈🤞

@Starsky1 as far as I know - August so far, and we are waiting for a call for a next intake

August intake, and talk of an intake end of October/start of November

Witheld number and they will leave a voicemail

The PCA

Well, SMT its not just drugs, its medicine also. So yes, people should apply and still can be worried about it 😉

I agree about PCA. It looks easy on YT, but was much harder than it looks.

@nsic93 where are you on merit list?

I thought that was just me 🙈🤣 as I describe myself as fit, after PCA I was dead 🙈 and I knew I have to work much more and much harder to be better prepared to go to GV

Was also dead after the PCA and failed it by 3 seconds the first time. I run at least 3 times a week and at least 5k each time, go to different types of fitness classes and walk, I couldn’t believe I failed as I would consider myself fit. Passed it in 3.36 second time, do not underestimate it, the video does not reflect the course at all

It wasn't necccesary comment 🤔

You can easily understand what I mean there