1405 campaign news

HighburyLad · 15-01-2015 4:36pm

The final budget for 2015/16 is to be presented in Stormont and news reports have said it is good news for public services, so hopefully the PSNI will be included in the good news part, we'll know this afternoon or later, but no doubt it will be in the news, maybe everyone is just patiently waiting like me on something positive being announced to put our minds at rest lol, here's hoping anyway

Goonerdee · 15-01-2015 4:36pm

fish2690 wrote: »

Gone very quiet....

Everyone is nervously scouring news articles and local TV channels for any news on this budget.

Suzuka · 15-01-2015 4:44pm

I honestly think nothing will be said until the next policing board meeting on February 5th, would be nice if its earlier though lol

KevBo2015 · 15-01-2015 5:16pm

Think we are all just waiting for our own vetting forms to arrive, after the last round of calls seems the recruitment belt has fired back up after christmas and things are moving along.... I guess we will just have to wait, wait and wait some more like the poor souls before us. Here is hoping we hear some good news soon on numbers.

Goonerdee · 15-01-2015 5:29pm

Do you get the vetting forms before the pca?

KevBo2015 · 15-01-2015 5:46pm

Nearly sure you get the vetting forms with an invite to the PCA? In the email it says the running order is vetting forms first, PCA, medical etc etc.

Suzuka · 15-01-2015 5:52pm

I'm not 100% sure either but would make sense seeing how long vetting takes

HighburyLad · 15-01-2015 6:05pm

"Our Budget has not been keeping pace with inflation with the Executive’s Resource budget effectively reduced by 1.6 per cent.
Add to that the well-publicised pressures in Health, Justice, Enterprise and other Departments, and a difficult job is made almost impossible.

Yet, in spite of these seemingly insurmountable challenges, the Executive has agreed this draft Budget for 2015-16. It is by no means an ideal Budget. The range of pressures we confronted
required £872 million worth of reductions to our resource budget. Adjustments of that degree necessitate tough choices and difficult
decisions. But the Executive has faced up to the harsh reality of our financial position and prioritised key public services like health,
job creation, education and policing through £659 million of resource allocations."

http://www.northernireland.gov.uk/budget

Theres the proposed draft budget folks, don't know if this is the one that is to be or has been signed off on, but the paragraph I quoted seems good, or better than before regarding police.

Razer33 · 15-01-2015 7:08pm

HighburyLad wrote: »

"Our Budget has not been keeping pace with inflation with the Executive’s Resource budget effectively reduced by 1.6 per cent.
Add to that the well-publicised pressures in Health, Justice, Enterprise and other Departments, and a difficult job is made almost impossible.

Yet, in spite of these seemingly insurmountable challenges, the Executive has agreed this draft Budget for 2015-16. It is by no means an ideal Budget. The range of pressures we confronted
required £872 million worth of reductions to our resource budget. Adjustments of that degree necessitate tough choices and difficult
decisions. But the Executive has faced up to the harsh reality of our financial position and prioritised key public services like health,
job creation, education and policing through £659 million of resource allocations."

Theres the proposed draft budget folks, don't know if this is the one that is to be or has been signed off on, but the paragraph I quoted seems good, or better than before regarding police.

Hopefully it is good, is it too early to make heads or tails of this and what it actually means for the police? I suppose we may just have to wait until the policing board meeting to find that out.

Suzuka · 15-01-2015 7:21pm

Sounded positive on UTV there, no real details mind

fish2690 · 15-01-2015 7:27pm

Suzuka wrote: »

Sounded positive on UTV there, no real details mind

I dozed off

long day. What was said?

HighburyLad · 15-01-2015 7:28pm

Suzuka wrote: »

Sounded positive on UTV there, no real details mind

Damn just missed it there on the news, I was waiting for it and then had to do something and must have missed it lol

Suzuka · 15-01-2015 7:29pm

fish2690 wrote: »

I dozed off long day. What was said?

Just the politics guy saying what departments did well from the budget and that DoJ may have got some money aswell in relation to Policing. Simon Hamilton is announcing something officially about the entire budget in detail on Monday they said

fish2690 · 15-01-2015 7:31pm

Suzuka wrote: »

Just the politics guy saying what departments did well from the budget and that DoJ may have got some money aswell in relation to Policing. Simon Hamilton is announcing something officially about the entire budget in detail on Monday they said

Cheers. Heard the word 'policing' and quickly woke up but had missed it

HighburyLad · 15-01-2015 7:42pm

Yeah seen he will make an announcement on the specifics on Monday, just checked online there on the UTV news site, hopefully whatever may be the outcome it means recruitment will continue as originally planned with the full 378

QueenP · 15-01-2015 8:22pm

Guys all I heard was a bunch of words and fluffing about but nothing too substantial! Or else I'm too tired to concentrate lol. I meant to say yesterday there was an article in a newspaper saying about another budget cutting strategy...switching off the heating in stations.

If all this is a pr stunt like Highbury lad said a while ago to get the budget reinstated it's flipping good!

pb82 · 15-01-2015 8:24pm

KevBo2015 wrote: »

Nearly sure you get the vetting forms with an invite to the PCA? In the email it says the running order is vetting forms first, PCA, medical etc etc.

I got my vetting forms in may and didn't get my pca invitation until the end of june

warofattrition · 15-01-2015 8:42pm

pb82 wrote: »

I got my vetting forms in may and didn't get my pca invitation until the end of june

I got my vetting forms then PCA date 2 days later

the411 · 15-01-2015 8:46pm

The statement the Chief made in Oct, regarding our campaign, was as follows:

'The recruitment plans will basically be turned down to a trickle because we have some contractual arrangements with the outsourced provider and so will cut, probably by 50%, the number of officers coming in over the course of this competition.'

I doubt this would change. I assume he will only take roughly 100 from 14050.

Razer33 · 15-01-2015 10:39pm

the411 wrote: »

The statement the Chief made in Oct, regarding our campaign, was as follows:

'The recruitment plans will basically be turned down to a trickle because we have some contractual arrangements with the outsourced provider and so will cut, probably by 50%, the number of officers coming in over the course of this competition.'

I doubt this would change. I assume he will only take roughly 100 from 14050.

Depending on the outcome of this budget agreement and whether/how much the police budget is protected by it may well change, these comments were made in October when any financial deal wasn't even close to happening. I guess time will tell.

Rezone · 16-01-2015 2:23pm

I take it no one at all from this campaign has received any forms or dates?

the411 · 16-01-2015 6:34pm

Nothing yet. The forum is very quiet...

HighburyLad · 16-01-2015 7:13pm

It's eerily quiet, I gotta admit this second campaign in comparison to the first is so much quieter lol, at one point this place was constant, this is kinda what it was like when I first joined when we were hoping the moratorium on recruitment would end and it did and the place was hiving lol which was awesome.

I suppose if the first campaign is now pretty much towards the end, so its naturally became quieter, hopefully when vetting comes out and more info is released on recruitment numbers etc maybe it may create a buzz, I'm off work this week which makes it even worse I think lol, gym and just waiting on word of something.

Mop a top · 16-01-2015 8:49pm

Lol highbury that's only cos I'm not on here as much :P

HighburyLad · 16-01-2015 9:34pm

Mop a top wrote: »

Lol highbury that's only cos I'm not on here as much :P

Lol, think we're all a bit like that now Mop, you understandably a bit more so, but once your in and when the final folks of campaign 1 are in too, it'll be deathly quiet on here, and that's understandble, as everyone will be busy training and hopefully I'll be one of them this campaign

the411 · 16-01-2015 10:57pm

I thought there would have been more people from campaign 2 on

KevBo2015 · 16-01-2015 11:12pm

I guess we're just lurking waiting for vetting forms or news on the budget. All up in the air at the moment.

Suzuka · 17-01-2015 12:10am

Wonder how many from intake 8 and 9 who got calls were also in for campaign 2, effectively freeing up to 80 spaces

Goonerdee · 17-01-2015 12:11am

Suzuka wrote: »

Wonder how many from intake 8 and 9 who got calls were also in for campaign 2, effectively freeing up to 80 spaces

Here's hoping.

pb82 · 17-01-2015 12:11am

Suzuka wrote: »

Wonder how many from intake 8 and 9 who got calls were also in for campaign 2, effectively freeing up to 80 spaces

I didn't go for the campaign 2 assessment centre

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