PSNI Recruitment - Stage 2 - The Assessment Centre

shelleyelley wrote: »

Hey guys

just done the a/c on the 19th there. Not too sure how i dont i can only hope for the best, it was my first time doing it, ive sat the IST 5 times and this is my first time passing it LOL

ILL NEVER GIVE UP!!! heehee

I am a bit lost now with everything as its my first time gettingt his far!


Is it same to say that if you dont recieve a vetting form within say 2 weeks after sitting the A/C that you havent passed??

im really hoping im going to get some vetting forms

or is it safe to say that you may not recieve them until you get the results in 6 weeks time????

it seems people are gettingt vetting forms very early on, like 2 weeks after the A/C

can someone shed light for me!!!

by the way, good luck to everyone!!!

If you get vetting forms then you have passed. Not getting them however does not mean you failed. People who have scored higher get them first from what I have gathered.

Two weeks after is very quick to get them, It was a month or so at the quickest last campaign, and for a few people including myself Vetting forms were not sent out to nearly 6 months after the AC.

Dont panic just yet, You will probably get a pass letter before vetting is sent out, its perfectly normal.

Anyone up on wednesday morning? i've got mine at 9am gonna have to be up from about half 5 to make sure i'm ready and there in time :-(

JulieBelfast84 wrote: »

I had my AC there on friday the 20th. I wasnt as nervous as I thought I would have been.. but not sure how i done. Its just a waitin game now. Lovely people at my AC would be great to get into Garnerville with a few of them.

That may happen, you never know!! I'm sure you did well enough Best of luck for your results

we have passed the a/c if we get our vetting forms (doesnt mean to say we've scored really well!) just that we've achieved whatever the minimum acceptable standard is. i read somewhere, perhaps on here that in order to save money now they are not doing medicals until you successfully pass vetting - perhaps an explanation as to why we got the forms so promptly??

as for the cover letter, thats standard, exactly the same as the one i got in campaign 13, the 14 days etc is all just standard stuff.

try not to stress to much about it, gotta think about your blood pressure for the medical!!!

Believe me you passed. Stop worrying about it, if you had got no vetting forms for 6 months like me then it would be time to worry

Consensia probably dont know how it works. The vetting is nothing to do with them. Then again anytime I called consensia they were very hard to get information out of.

6 months after I passed Ac until i got vetting forms

No idea.

My theory based on the timing of other similar people getting their vetting is that I passed along with loads of others, and was kept on some kind of backup list incase i would be needed since there is generally less catholic applicants.


I guess that by Feb of this year they calculated they would need extra catholics and then they sent me the vetting, medical etc.

Why else would i be kept in the dark for so long?

It also explains why there were people who passed and got Dear john letters and I didnt.

Well The list i have imagined is only because I was catholic I assume, since there are catholics being taken in with very high merit numbers.

About getting your medical, I would think you will have it by september october. I dont know if it means your vetting is complete or not though.

Recruitment

Police Trainees

These provisions streamline the police trainee recruitment process to allow the PSNI to make provisional police trainee appointments, subject to the satisfactory completion of medical tests and security vetting

13. These provisions will amend the Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2000 and change the police trainee recruitment procedures to allow the medicalassessment and security vetting processes to take place after the merit pool of candidates is established, instead of beforehand.

14. As there are only a finite number of police trainee places available (440 per year), a large majority of candidates (at least 1800 per year) are not considered for a position as they fail to score high enough in merit order to be offered one of the limited number of places. These candidates are nevertheless subjected unnecessarily to the security vetting and medical assessment

The policy objective of this proposal is to allow the Chief Constable to make provisional police trainee appointments subject to the satisfactory completion of medical tests and security vetting. Should a candidate fail either part of these processes, the Chief Constable can provisionally appoint the next applicant on the merit order list to replace the failed candidate.

16. This will obviate the need for a large number of candidates, who will not be offered a police trainee position, being subjected unnecessarily to the medical assessment and security vetting processes Both the PSNI and Policing Board holdthe view that undertaking security vetting and medical examination of a large group of candidates to satisfy the “qualified applicant” criteria, when at the conclusion of the recruitment process only some of that group will have been successful, is both costly and time consuming.

18. Each applicant costs approximately £300 to process through the securityvetting and medical assessment processes. A figure of at least £540,000 per annum is indicative of the savings to be achieved if 1800 fewer candidates were security vetted and medically assessed. As well as obviating the need for a large number of candidates to be subjected to the medical assessment and security vetting processes, the following
efficiencies and advantages will be achieved as a result of this change:

• Tangible annual cash savings of at least £540,000;
• Non-tangible opportunity costs in terms of time delays and staff time.

The overall PSNI recruitment process will be significantly streamlined and made more efficient e.g. the Patten Report recommended that the recruitment process is completed within 6 months. PSNI currently find this target challenging; it is critical that current recruitment processes are streamlined as much as possible before a recruitment contracting-out tender exercise is finalised in September 07.

Hi can anyone tell me a couple of things about the Roleplay..
1. Can there be more then one actor involved in a given roleplay.
2. In each of the scenarios am I taking the position of a policeman or can I be anybody?

Also the written exercise seems like it is very similar to the situational interview except I have to put it in writing instead of talking about it.. Is this correct?

Any help is appreciated

P.s THanks Given for your advice in previous Thread... how did you get on in A/c.