2021 Applicants - Merit List

You can apply for flexi working once you're on the street, but there is an expectation like any job for you to try and work out things yourself in the first instance.

Thought I would post some interesting statistics I found re recruitment etc. The numbers have dropped significantly over the past year, so once DoJ gets more money, there will be a huge intake of candidates from this merit list I am guessing. Furthermore, the PSNI aimed to have the first batch of 2021 candidates in GV by summer 2022 (which obviously didn’t happen). This means there has been a years worth of retired officers not being replaced by anyone, bar the 43 officers that graduated GV a few weeks ago. There will be a massive intake from this recruitment campaign soon I hypothesise as I believe they couldn’t handle without it. The force also has the lowest number of officers currently in their history, so they are begging for new recruits.

Awesome, much thanks for your update. Always motivating to hear stuff like this. Hope the rest of your time at GV goes smoothly

Thanks for the update @mse2020, hope GV goes well for you. Keep us updated with how you are getting on and if there are any further rumour on intakes!

Well just as an FYI officially/unofficially the recruitment has frozen again. Until the funding becomes available

830-850 mate.

Haven't heard of anyone’s vetting clearing yet but that would be good to know if people have started to hear back from it. I’ve not heard anything back from vetting yet or anything show on my Experian either

My vetting has cleared, took around 4 weeks which was much earlier than anticipated. Just medical and SMT to go now

Bumped the GV thread to top of page there - I hadn’t realised there were 16 pages of threads so lots more to read through than just this and 2020. Course a lot has changed since pre-2017 but some of it still applies I imagine.

@psnaye2023 do they contact you to tell you it has cleared or did you get in touch yourself?

Didn’t contact them at all

Yeah I was really surprised! The fear when you see the subject before you open it

Hopefully a sign that they’re expecting to at least have a squad ready (funding dependent) by the autumn, as if I pass the final 2 stages I’d expect to be appointable by July

Nature of the beast. Everyone’s circumstances are different - for example you might not have had any criminal history to declare but might have had 5+ addresses that need checked. All takes time.

The vetting thread is quite useful, I had a browse through that before completing my pack. Also for more general questions r/PoliceUK on Reddit can be decent, it’s England-focussed but a few PSNI on there and a LOT on vetting which is all done to the CoP standards anyway bar the part 1 PSNI supplement.

Cheers bud! Also for those who don’t know vetting pass is an email so if you get an email it’s for more info or you’ve passed vetting fail is a letter in the post.

What all happens? I thought they maybe told you on the day?

Apparently up to 1.5 hours according to the website so probably best to factor for this plus travel given everyone would be different