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PSNI Recruitment - Stage 4.5 - The Wait

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    #1052
    Mop a top
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭Mop a top


    Lol don't you just all love the enthuasim we have about waiting!!! I'm just savouring how miserable I'm feeling now so when we all get the call and walk into GV suited and booted or in my case dressed and heeled lol it will make it all the more sweeter!!!!


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    #1053
    Mop a top
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭Mop a top


    I'll be waiting longer. Just rang them. My vetting is STILL outstanding. Don't get it. Small family, very few addresses etc. grrrrr


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    #1054
    vickmackey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 380 ✭✭vickmackey


    Mop a top wrote: »
    I'll be waiting longer. Just rang them. My vetting is STILL outstanding. Don't get it. Small family, very few addresses etc. grrrrr

    Seriously?!?! Wtf? Considering you have exfamily in it too....nightmare, sorry to hear. Hope it's sorted quickly..... Going on that, mine won't clear till 2025, if ever!!!


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    #1055
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭Mop a top


    Lmfao!!! Indeed I was wondering if I can resubmit it NOW for the next campaign lol!!!! Well she said you can appeal it and she also said if I wanted to reapply this recruitment campaign I could. Tbh I'm now thinking I might not cos my vetting situation wouldn't change between now and then. The only thing that could let me down now is that my AC score wasn't high enough but then I could reapply and try for a higher score?! Aarrrggghhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!! Damned if I do.....


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    #1056
    Dutch_Rudder
    Registered Users Posts: 272 ✭✭Dutch_Rudder


    Mop a top wrote: »
    I'll be waiting longer. Just rang them. My vetting is STILL outstanding. Don't get it. Small family, very few addresses etc. grrrrr

    They could just be saying that to cover their asses for the next 5 weeks Mop a top! I wouldn't sweat it too much :) it hasn't seemed like there's been too many people on saying they've passed medicals and things recently so maybe the pool of people is getting smaller meaning they're going to concentrate on people like us who have passed everything to make sure vetting is finished for next intake. Fingers crossed!


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    #1057
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭Mop a top


    Lmfao!!!! That came through on my email as the poop of people. I nearly pmsl!! I know there's a lot of talk about people getting their forms and dates ATM. Fingers crossed for sure


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    #1058
    pcplod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭pcplod


    So, just sitting putting in the time with a few glasses of vino and a bit of football, i must say its helping to take my mind off the anguish of this recruitment process......


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    #1059
    Dekkers
    Registered Users Posts: 975 ✭✭✭Dekkers


    pcplod wrote: »
    So, just sitting putting in the time with a few glasses of vino and a bit of football, i must say its helping to take my mind off the anguish of this recruitment process......

    Yes it's amazing how you can feign interest in Chile vs Australia. Anything to distract yourself lol


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    #1060
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭Mop a top


    Lol you're lucky at least you can distract yourself with football


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    #1061
    Ploddington Pea
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭Ploddington Pea


    I watch this thread every day, looking forward to the moment that Mop a top and Dutch Rudder confirm that they have got the call, because you have both been posting and chatting away on the agony of the wait, and I feel for you both.

    If you are both 70 plus ACer's and have no criminal links and didn't just write the word sausages for your answers to the two 150 word questions on the initial application form, then it is when, not if, you get the call.


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    #1062
    active_edge
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭active_edge


    Ploddington Pea wrote: »
    I watch this thread every day, looking forward to the moment that Mop a top and Dutch Rudder confirm that they have got the call, because you have both been posting and chatting away on the agony of the wait, and I feel for you both.

    If you are both 70 plus ACer's and have no criminal links and didn't just write the word sausages for your answers to the two 150 word questions on the initial application form, then it is when, not if, you get the call.

    Phew! I wrote "sizzling sausages"! :-)


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    #1063
    Ploddington Pea
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭Ploddington Pea


    active_edge wrote: »
    Phew! I wrote "sizzling sausages"! :-)

    Then you are cooking, and should have been offered the job at the first stage.


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    #1064
    active_edge
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭active_edge


    Ploddington Pea wrote: »
    Then you are cooking, and should have been offered the job at the first stage.

    I must report my concerns immediately to George Hamilton, this simply isn't good enough :-)


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    #1065
    active_edge
    Registered Users Posts: 45 ✭active_edge


    active_edge wrote: »
    I must report my concerns immediately to George Hamilton, this simply isn't good enough :-)

    Ok, been on the phone to George, gives his regards to all and he said that anyone who put "sizzling sausages" in their application will start in gv as instructors. Also, drill sessions will be undertaken by the ministry of funny walks.


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    #1066
    Dutch_Rudder
    Registered Users Posts: 272 ✭✭Dutch_Rudder


    Ploddington Pea wrote: »
    I watch this thread every day, looking forward to the moment that Mop a top and Dutch Rudder confirm that they have got the call, because you have both been posting and chatting away on the agony of the wait, and I feel for you both.

    If you are both 70 plus ACer's and have no criminal links and didn't just write the word sausages for your answers to the two 150 word questions on the initial application form, then it is when, not if, you get the call.

    Tell the truth, you just can't wait for us both to give over :P haha thank you mate, if you end up being the intake ahead of me just wait till I'm melting your head with questions :P


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    #1067
    Mop a top
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭Mop a top


    Ploddington Pea wrote: »
    I watch this thread every day, looking forward to the moment that Mop a top and Dutch Rudder confirm that they have got the call, because you have both been posting and chatting away on the agony of the wait, and I feel for you both.

    If you are both 70 plus ACer's and have no criminal links and didn't just write the word sausages for your answers to the two 150 word questions on the initial application form, then it is when, not if, you get the call.

    I'm sure you're having a right laugh at us then!!! I'd be happy if they told me I start 6 months from now. Just annoying when I've got a childminder waiting for the green light and customers being told I MIGHT be able to do it. Just wanting a call so I can at least plan and get on with my life lol!!!

    I don't know if it's good enough but I got 71% in AC. Fingers crossed I guess


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    #1068
    Ploddington Pea
    Registered Users Posts: 31 ✭Ploddington Pea


    Mop a top wrote: »
    I'm sure you're having a right laugh at us then!!! I'd be happy if they told me I start 6 months from now. Just annoying when I've got a childminder waiting for the green light and customers being told I MIGHT be able to do it. Just wanting a call so I can at least plan and get on with my life lol!!!

    I don't know if it's good enough but I got 71% in AC. Fingers crossed I guess

    Nothing funny about waiting.


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    #1069
    coogie_boogie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭coogie_boogie


    Looking for some advice – I know that once training has finished you can be posted anywhere in Northern Ireland, problem is that I will be moving to Northern Ireland and will be bringing my wife and 4 year old daughter. My daughter is due to start school in September so what school do I put her in and in what area?? I’m worried that once training is finished I could get posted the other side of the country and have to swap her schools again... I’m feeling really bad already for having to move her away from grandparents ect and just want as little upset as possible for her.


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    #1070
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    Word on the inside is that Derry/Londonderry are really short staffed and apparently so is belfast. Maybe look at somewhere in between? Coleraine? Ballymoney? Ballymena? Antrim? I know that's not very helpful. I've moved my kids out of a town school to a country one cos the teacher:kid ratio is much better. My eldest was p5 when I did this and I know it's tight on the wee ones but P6 is their important year here so don't worry too much about moving the wee one. Their more resilient than you think.


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    #1071
    pcplod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭pcplod


    You could hear a mouse fart its that quiet in here...


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    #1072
    221988
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭221988


    Just heard that only 20 went in yesterday in the second intake. Seems really small. Very few must have cleared vetting?!

    Has everyone on here reapplied? I'm in two minds :-/


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    #1073
    Sthm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 444 ✭✭Sthm


    221988 wrote: »
    Just heard that only 20 went in yesterday in the second intake. Seems really small. Very few must have cleared vetting?!

    Has everyone on here reapplied? I'm in two minds :-/

    Around 30-35 were at the induction weekend. Shocking if only 20 showed on the first day of GV.


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    #1074
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    221988 wrote: »
    Just heard that only 20 went in yesterday in the second intake. Seems really small. Very few must have cleared vetting?!

    Has everyone on here reapplied? I'm in two minds :-/

    Thinking about it.


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    #1075
    pcplod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭pcplod


    I'm not reapplying...


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    #1076
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭Mop a top


    Can't understand people not taking places after going through it all. Wtf?!? What were they actually expecting GV and serving to be like? T**ts


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    #1077
    sweet chuck
    Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭sweet chuck


    10 - 15 drop outs? No way! Weird


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    #1078
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭Mop a top


    HR said it wasn't 9-5 like the rumours. Long hard days overnights etc suppose it's maybe not as attractive to some folk after that


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    #1079
    sweet chuck
    Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭sweet chuck


    Yeah thats true, though the first 4 weeks are residential and the job is shift work. Would seem strange for some people to turn it down just as the training is in shifts to.


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    #1080
    19087
    Closed Accounts Posts: 428 ✭✭19087


    I had heard there were only ever going to be 30 in that intake


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    #1081
    Mop a top
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭Mop a top


    The HR rep at the open day I went to say was batches of approx 50. Guess they might have it that high to allow for drop outs. Not sure tbh, more guesstimating lol


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