Suppose we need a new one… Roll on Feb 6th!
You receive a conditional offer if your vetting has not been completed but is nearing the final stages of completion. Your vetting continues throughout your time at Templemore. So it’s essentially an offer under the condition that if your vetting fails at any point throughout training you have to leave the program.
If your vetting has been completed before hand you receive a full offer and the vetting is done. You essentially don’t have to worry about being forced to leave training due to vetting having failed.
Seems to me that most offers that are given now are conditional offers.
hello, has anyone received a PCT invitation last week or this week?
They normally allow you to defer if you are in last year of a degree programme and then start after your degree is finished. I know a classmate of mine did this and didn't start until after he finished his studies.
As its only a conditional offer it doesn't count as a deferral anyway. Vetting could take another 6 months or even longer.
They had my Form B from June 2024 and I didn't get the vetting completed until late September 2025. Just a lottery.
Thanks!!
A conditional offer is an offer subject to you meeting certain checks, in this case; full completion of vetting. A formal offer is one made when all recruitment checks (including vetting) have been complete.
InspectorMorse is spot on in his post; if you’re into your final year of your degree, Garda HRM will be flexible and will allow an applicant to finish the final year. I’m also of the understanding that an applicant can decline a conditional offer and wait for their full vetting to clear if he/she wishes to do so.
To be fair to the lads and ladies in the CVU, they’re vetting hundreds of applicants many of whom have large extended families which makes numbers go into the thousands so unfortunately these things take time. Painful, but that’s the process.
Hi everyone……Got an email saying I passed interview last week and on it they they are looking for the submission of eligibility documents and supporting documentation by 20th of March
Anyone know what this is as I haven’t received the B form yet?
your level 5 or above qualification i.e your leaving cert or college degrees and your ID so driver license/passport. If you’re not an Irish citizen then proof of eligibility to work in Ireland is also needed @ea2345
are the interviews still going on. ?
Same happened myself,i had station interview in October
Got notified that I passed interview on 10th of March. I still haven’t received date for fitness test. How long were other people waiting on average for their test?
Anyone get an email telling them their vetting was in final stages and then later get an offer. Trying to gauge how long I can expect the final stage of vetting to take considering the rest has taken over a year😅
I had my interview on the 13 June last year and was contacted regarding my fitness test roughly 4 weeks later and I had my fitness test on 9th August.
Has anyone received an invitation for the next templemore intake?
I also got the same email and was going to ask the same question! I had to give bit more info(they just asked for rough years of birth for people I couldn't get first day) but emailed them immediately.....
There's another intake in June if that's any use to you.
Next intake is in May, no? My understanding was every 3 months?
May and then June apparently. Mate did the physical test recently and was told so down there.
What mate are you saying they told you down in Templemore that there will be 2 intakes back to back one in May and one in June?.
Strange though on the Garda website it says that intakes will be every 11 to 12 weeks.
I'm in May but a mate of mine did his physical down there recently and they said there was one in June that he was hoping to get in on. Whether he or they got mixed up on that I'm not sure.
Yeah the next intake is 5th of May.
You’re in the May intake? I’m surprised they’re starting it on a 4-day week.
They said that to me aswell after pysical test they where hoping to get me into the next college date, that was last July still waiting
Yep, I'd imagine they'll ask us to go down on Monday for the introduction etc, but the start date is the 5th.
Got offered may intake without my vetting fully completed, I might need to reject the offer due to work but when I asked would I get into the next intake which should be August I was told that it’s subject to if my vetting becomes fully completed or if there is conditional opportunities open. Anyone know if I would have a fairly high chance of getting August intake if I didn’t take the may offer?
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I was offered Feb without vetting completed and turned it down because of work and that I'd be available for May and they said fine and offered me May without vetting completed
Hi! When did they send you the conformation email for may intake?
Got the email for the conditional offer yesterday. I asked could I defer to the next intake but they said I wouldn’t be guaranteed a spot
i applied in February 2025 finally got an offer today 🙌
How long after station interview does it take for vetting to complete? Applied in January 2024 only had sergeant interview 6 weeks ago. Just wondering if anyone knows if it will be soon 😞
Not a short answer but its impossible to say.
Every ones circumstances are different, station interview though I'm led to believe is part 3 of vetting process, which is one of the final aspects.
There are other checks as well though that run along side the station interview (which is referred to as local background vetting checks) such as ,security and intelegence, social media and a few more.
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