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Garda Recruitment - Stage 3a - Medical Examination
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Hey man, nope haven't rang them! I presume they'd ring us yeah??
I'd say that they are still going to go ahead with them would you?
No news is good news:)
I agree with you. I have my medical the 22nd haven't received any call. Don't be worrying about stuff we can't really control right now!Guys as cutestuff and loads of other people have said, take everything you hear with a pinch of salt. I know the waiting is hard we all know what everyone is going through as we are all sitting here waiting very patiently for things to happen.0 -
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Your right Pink Star, i lost my head there for a minute :pac: Sound out for the encouragement. You have to think of the big picture really!!
Yep you did lose it glad I could bring you back to the real world, mind you it aint all that great at the minute but feck it I just am happy that we are in the system and we can just hope that we get called sooner rather than later!! There are alot of people seriously down in the dumps at the min over all this stuff in the media...but they usually get it wrong, they'll realise their mistake and know that they can't cut on the intake of new guards. Keep thinking about that....they're surely not gonna let the gangs, crime etc get the better of us all aswell as the financial status they have gotten us into!!!:o0 -
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If you look at the article on page 2 of todays sunday times you can see how bleak the next year is going to be for us.
According to the article after the may intake, there will be no more intakes until 2010. All sections of training and education in the college have been scaled back. Even kitchen staff within the college have been let go and teaching staff have been redeployed to normal Garda duties. So seeing as I haven't even been given a date for a medical yet it probably be 2011 before I get anywhere near Templemore.
here's the article. May as well close this forum down
Recruitment ban leads to training base closing down for two years
Stephen O'Brien
GARDA numbers are set to fall from their current level of 14,000 as training at the Garda College in Templemore is being wound down on a temporary basis. Senior officers are preparing to mothball student education for nearly two years due to a recruitment ban imposed by Brian Lenihan until 2011.
Courses for serving gardai in driving skills, weapons and tactics, career development and management will continue at the Co Tipperary institution.
But teaching staff and garda union representatives have been told to plan for a 20-month recruitment freeze after the last batch of 100 student gardai begin their training in May.
Plans for two further student intakes in July and September have been cancelled, The Sunday Times has learned. The full impact of the public service recruitment ban will not be felt in Templemore until later next year and in 2011, when the large intakes of 2007 and 2008 will have completed training.
Numbers were reduced from 1,100 last year to just 400 for 2009, but only half the 2009 intake will now proceed with further recruitment considered from 2011 onward.
Dozens of kitchen and cleaning staff have already been laid off and large numbers of training officers redeployed to routine policing duties from what was once “the largest employer in north Tipperary”, according to Noel Coonan, the local Fine Gael TD.
Coonan branded the garda recruitment ban as “insane politics” while criminal gang warfare continued unabated in Limerick, Dublin and other major urban centres.
The Garda Representative Association (GRA) said the hiring ban would start “a downward spiral” from the day recruitment ceased and the force would decline by about 350 for every year of the freeze.
“It will affect rural Ireland first,” said a GRA spokesman, “because the average age of members of the force is older outside the cities. If a unit has one sergeant and four gardai, you could have officers prevailing on an older colleague to put off retirement or that unit could be left under strength.”
A Garda spokesman said the force had no plans to close all or part of the Garda College, but confirmed that no letters of offer had yet been dispatched for student intake in July or September and that there were more than 300 garda and civilian staff there.
Basic garda training is carried out in five phases over two years, with three blocs of 20 weeks, 12 weeks and two weeks in college. Two blocs of 22 weeks and 38 weeks are spent on probation at a station.
Coonan said locals would be affected as hundreds worked at the college in civilian post and families provided lodgings for student gardai."0 -
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here's the article. May as well close this forum down
Recruitment ban leads to training base closing down for two years
Stephen O'Brien
GARDA numbers are set to fall from their current level of 14,000 as training at the Garda College in Templemore is being wound down on a temporary basis. Senior officers are preparing to mothball student education for nearly two years due to a recruitment ban imposed by Brian Lenihan until 2011.
Courses for serving gardai in driving skills, weapons and tactics, career development and management will continue at the Co Tipperary institution.
But teaching staff and garda union representatives have been told to plan for a 20-month recruitment freeze after the last batch of 100 student gardai begin their training in May.
Plans for two further student intakes in July and September have been cancelled, The Sunday Times has learned. The full impact of the public service recruitment ban will not be felt in Templemore until later next year and in 2011, when the large intakes of 2007 and 2008 will have completed training.
Numbers were reduced from 1,100 last year to just 400 for 2009, but only half the 2009 intake will now proceed with further recruitment considered from 2011 onward.
Dozens of kitchen and cleaning staff have already been laid off and large numbers of training officers redeployed to routine policing duties from what was once “the largest employer in north Tipperary”, according to Noel Coonan, the local Fine Gael TD.
Coonan branded the garda recruitment ban as “insane politics” while criminal gang warfare continued unabated in Limerick, Dublin and other major urban centres.
The Garda Representative Association (GRA) said the hiring ban would start “a downward spiral” from the day recruitment ceased and the force would decline by about 350 for every year of the freeze.
“It will affect rural Ireland first,” said a GRA spokesman, “because the average age of members of the force is older outside the cities. If a unit has one sergeant and four gardai, you could have officers prevailing on an older colleague to put off retirement or that unit could be left under strength.”
A Garda spokesman said the force had no plans to close all or part of the Garda College, but confirmed that no letters of offer had yet been dispatched for student intake in July or September and that there were more than 300 garda and civilian staff there.
Basic garda training is carried out in five phases over two years, with three blocs of 20 weeks, 12 weeks and two weeks in college. Two blocs of 22 weeks and 38 weeks are spent on probation at a station.
Coonan said locals would be affected as hundreds worked at the college in civilian post and families provided lodgings for student gardai."
Hi Guys
lets not get ahead of ourselves a garda spokesperson said there was no plans to close all or part of the college and regarding no offers for july and september being sent out yet i thought the next intakes after may would be august and november like previous years! so lets just wait and see there is way to much rumours floating around:)0 -
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privatebob wrote: »Your right techno. Medicals last 6 months mine is out of date in early May. to say that i am not happy is an understatment. But what can ya do
ye it sucks alright, didnt think it would be that short though 0 -
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passed interview last oct still waiting on med and pct .... we'll get in eventually 
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