Garda Recruitment - Applying to join An Garda Siochana

Ruairi88 wrote: »

Again to reiterate what I said the numbers in the force is standing at 13,500 and not the 14,000+ the government is claiming. So in a passionate call to every single thug in Ireland go out plunder, burn, Steal shoot do whatever ye gotta do to draw attention on the currently UNDER-strength Garda Siochana. And we here will sit back and wait (were good at that).

So what happens to the Gardai, emergency services and members of the public who suffer through all that?:rolleyes:

I want to join the Garda Band,but I'm not sure how to apply as I didn't see anything anything about applying on their website. Can somebody help me out? Thanks.

Daffydolly wrote: »

Hey I just heard from a friend who graduated to AGS earlier this year. She said that there is loads of uncertainty among the new recruits regarding the future of their AGS careers as they had to sign a contract to say that they can be let go after 5 years if they are no longer needed.... Hopefully there will be loads of retirements so it won't come to that!

Iirc this is to become standard practice across to civil service, in line with regular assesment.
It's a good thing really.

Ruairi88 wrote: »

The same thing that has been happening to them every other day,week month year decade etc up until now! Rolleyes all you want we need publicity on this and it's unfortunate that the only way to bring this is through negative activities. Crime!

Your post stating every gouger in the country should start doing what they do best to highlight need for recruitment is ridiculous, as it wont be you who will be dealing them. It will be the Gardai.

I just want to say that I would love nothing more than a recruitment campaign to start, but I would rather wait 2-3 years than have AGS experience drained because of retirement. As it stands roughly 60% of the force have less than 10 years experience.

Back on topic please

conor48 wrote: »

hi im 16 nd will b leavin school this year, i want ta join d gards nd i know der nt recuiting. any advice ???????

Plenty of advice.

1) Please read the Forum Charter before posting. Text Speak is not permitted on this forum. It makes your posts difficult to read and you will find that people will skip over them and you will not get a reply.

2) Please also read the FAQ on Applying to Join. It answers alot of questions people have about joining.

3) Please post your questions in the correct thread. This thread will help you get started in that regard. I've moved your post into this thread where it is more suited.

4) You have to be 18 to apply. But until then there is alot of advice around this forum on how to prepare for the recruitment stages. Familiarise yourself with the forum, there is a wealth of information on here.

5) Welcome to the forum

reg121corp wrote: »

well folks all your hopes and roumours and any other misleading information about a recruitment campaign will be rolled out tommorrow if there will be any recruitment in 2011 you will know for certain tommorow and you will also no if there wil be none the budget will bring the reality

I dont think anything will be made clear tomorrow. The budget wont announce anything in relation to Garda Recruitment.

reg121corp wrote: »

you dont think i am tired of this speculation .the budget basicallly dictates how everyting will run for the year if there are not allocated enough funds ags will basically not recruit on the other hand if they do get enough allocaated to them they will start by replacing new car fleets as badly needed then they may consider taking a handfull of recruits to keep things going

nobody knows how they will spend their allocated funds. they dont even know this yet. Planning will start once they know how much they have to spend. Recruitment could be a priority to them, maybe it wont, who knows.

Devil08 wrote: »

nobody knows how they will spend their allocated funds. they dont even know this yet. Planning will start once they know how much they have to spend. Recruitment could be a priority to them, maybe it wont, who knows.

it has already been stated that they are reducing the force by 1500 (however long that takes), does this not indicate that there will be no recruitment until then.. no matter what the gardai want, what the government says goes. whatever change in government will bring is unknown, but for now there is no recruitment on the cards from the governments point of view.. unfortunately..
as far as can see sierra oscar, i doubt the government are going to call a reduction in numbers and then turn around and say there will be recruitment 3 weeks later. i think an announcement will come when the 1500 have retired

Devil08 wrote: »

I dont think anything will be made clear tomorrow. The budget wont announce anything in relation to Garda Recruitment.

You recon?

Sorry lads but ive been following this thread for a while and the amount of rumours and no sources to back it up is astounding.

The National Recovery Plan outlines the what is going to be the governments course of action in order to reduce the operational cost of day to day running of the country.

I like a few of ye here was looking to join in any possible recruitment campaign in the near future (even had an aptitude course completed in Sept) but looks as If ill be heading abroad to earn a living instead. I might not like it but thats now the reality.


Sources

GRA:

http://www.gra.cc/national_recovery_plan_2011-20.shtml


http://www.budget.gov.ie/The%20National%20Recovery%20Plan%202011-2014.pdf

Page 64 outlines the projected cuts in the number of gardai they are expecting a 1000 member drop from 2010 to 2011 from retirements.

Last year (2009) was: 776

Source:
http://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2010-06-30.385.0

Any current serving Gardai thinking of retiring in the next say 3-4 years where financially possible for them will do so this year as it wont pay them to remain in the force.
The subsequent years after they are expecting a drop of 150 members per year until 2014.

Hi All,

Is anyone aware if there are people still on waiting lists from the previous recruitment campaign? If so does this do further damage to the chances of a camapaign taking place in 2011 ? Don't mean to be all gloomy, i have no knowledge of when the recuitment will ocur and i'm just trying to logically make sense of what may happen. Very difficult to acquire any real concrete/reliable information at this time . Any opinions appreciated.


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