2021 Applicants - Merit List

As far as I am aware the NITA is paid monthly and is payable from day one at the police college.

Last confirmed class for what?

the last class in Garnerville as it stands was for June and has already started

@Psnaye2023 ok thanks and the next class then willl be October or is that just rumour?

@Starsky1 Sorry it may have been my message that confused you, october is confirmed for call handler. At this time there are no planned officer courses, anything else is a guess. Although my guess would be October/November for the next course but again total speculation

I applied the same time as the 2021 psni campaign. I'm in the job now. Still in the 700's for the psni though.

The 85 positions was for the 3 intakes that are currently in GV at the minute. There is 2 intakes in the mid 30s and 1 that just started with mid teens. Unfortunately none of the training staff are preparing for any further intakes this year. That goes for the admin staff in GV aswell, (its the admin staff that prepare all your kit, they get it ordered atleast 4 weeks in advance they also need to know to plan and prepare for inductions etc) as for the 50 currently remaining, they are people who got the call then deferred to the next intake so they are not currently in GV and most likely will not be in this FY

For those that haven’t seen it, there’s a specific 30-odd minute video on the Policing Board YouTube from 3 days ago all about resourcing and the budgets etc.

Lot of info in there on their shortfalls and how they’re going to make savings but I think this is the key graphic for us. Based on that, not only no more appointments this FY but 0 in FY24-25, meaning none of us will see GV before April 2025 at the earliest unless this funding issue is resolved. Very disheartening.

I’d sort of come to terms with probably not getting in this FY but to see that it could be another 2 years at least is painful

Yeah I think it’s certainly part of that. Just can’t see why they progressed the 150 when they likely knew they weren’t getting 200+ positions to offer, so hopefully come September there is some progress with the Executive, though Conor Murphy’s draft budget didn’t fare much better.

Funding and intervention needed by the British government me thinks

It’s a honest reflection of a bleak situation. Part of it is to highlight the need for more money otherwise the above graphic is the outcome. Regarding processing the top 150, an appointable pool will be kept in the event of a deal being struck and money becoming available. Offers will likely be made shortly after decisions to increase numbers. It’s not going to get to new decade new approach numbers but that was meant to be 7500, hence 2020 & 2021 campaigns on close succession. If this is really want you want to do then wait it out. I know it’s tough but it will be worth it in the end.

Late 400s here. I just keep checking the news daily/ every other day and this forum to see if any good news comes up 🤞

Am I right in thinking that Summer 2026 is an optimistic start date for those in the middle of the merit pool?

In other news, Police in England and Wales have been given a 7% pay rise from September..

PSNI usually follow but as it's a devolved matter and no executive a decision can't be made.

No guarantee it will go ahead, but for curiosity, if it is does, this is what it would look like for us:

£26,682 x 7% = £28,550 + £3,666 (NITA) = £32,216 Starting salary...

.......and for the top of the scale it would be £49,710 as a constable 😲

Are the majority of those in the top 150 still waiting for vetting? I noticed my credit report was checked a few months ago but haven’t heard a thing.

don’t want to jinx anything but would I be right in assuming that for the most part is no news good news?

Had a check pop up on credit report about 2 months ago, nothing yet myself

From checking other years posts I think if you call vetting they can only tell you that it’s ongoing, don’t think they’re able to say if you’re say almost done or barely started etc which is a bit of a pain