2021 Applicants - Merit List

Request 1
Iam aware that the PSNI has not yet been given their budget for 2024-25- however my questions relate to planning that would need to be done prior to this- so please do not respond that you are awaiting your budget for 2024-25 as this would not be an appropriate response.
Has any planning been done regarding the possibility of a 2024 recruitment campaign?

Answer 1
PSNI have commenced high level planning for a future Student Officer campaign.

Request 2
Has the possibility of a new campaign been mentioned in any meetings?
Request 3
What was said?

Answer 2-3
The allocation of our 2024/25 budget has not yet been notified and this wil have an impact on PSNI resource plan and recruitment forecasting, which have and wil continue to be discussed at a range of internal and external meetings.
Budget allocation determines the overall number of police officers that PSNI can afford. This in turn determines the number of Student Officer appointments we need to progress to maintain agreed number of officers. We currently have 800 candidates remaining on our 2021 Student Officer campaign merit list. Until we receive budget and agree overal police oficer numbers, we cannot determine how many candidates we would need to appoint from our existing campaign, before the need and timing of a new campaign could be confirmed.

Request 4
What month (budget permitting) would this ideally launch?

Answer 4
We have not to date determined the timing of our next Student Officer recruitment campaign.

source: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/2024_campaign/response/2651880/attach/3/00787%202024%20Recruitment%20Campaign.pdf?cookie_passthrough=1

Does anyone roughly know what the time frame is between passing PCA and getting a date for the medical? Or is it like everything else....another long wait.

Call handler medical results are out.