daunted

Know some of u will be very happy to hear this! check out www.stepforward.gov.au to see if you qualify!

johnboy412

I take it this is for UK cops who have took a career break or resigned from their force and went over to Oz to wait patiently for the recruitment to start?

Noted the point that WA may be coming over to London for possible recruitment.

Could be good news ahead.

Pincher

Looks like quite a tough little list to meet! (anyone out there qualify?)
I wonder if WAPol are looking to save money by recruiting Brits locally before having to go to the expense of sending a recruiting team to the UK. I don't think they will get many applicants of the back of that criteria,so hopefully they will be in London soon!

Jord w

Great news for officers if the London drive comes off. Luckily for my wife she will be able to apply through lateral entry once her permanent visa arrives in the next couple of months.
I really WAPOL make the trip over, fingers crossed for everyone

geordiebloke

They had a similar stipulation with regard to years service when I applied. Though I don't recall anyone with less than 3 years service, there were plenty of us who had more (some much more) than 7 years service.

All other requirements should be easily achievable for most serving officers.

dazza999

UK police officers based in the UK are free to apply providing they can make it out to WA in September for the assessments although the strict criteria is that you have to have between 3 and 7 years UK service. Although last time they stipulated this they still accepted applications outside this criteria, this time around they are sticking stringently to the 3-7 years service rule and apparently that will apply again IF they come to London having not recruited enough from this current drive!

daunted

Check out the step forward site again today.........WAPOL are visiting London in November 2012

bruce67

Just to confirm the 3 to 7 years.
My brother emailed WAPOL as he has 7 years 5 months service and they told him he could not apply

dreadsoc

Hi Johnboy

Just noticed this is your first post so welcome to BE and the "Uk Police escape club"....

Dread - x

dreadsoc

Just a little snippet for you folks.........

A friend of mine has been told NOT to send an application to WAPOL because he is outside the criteria.....on account he has 7 YEARS AND ONE WEEK service.

Therefore peoples it is worth checking before you invest time and effort putting together an application

For those who meet the criteria, go forth with the best of luck from me

Dread - x

Pincher

It is based on total amount of time served, not how long you have been in the Police. You need to deduct A/L, sickness, career breaks and any other times of absence to get a final time served. WAPol should accept this as it is one of the criteria they use when calculating the prior service ranking for existing officers joining.
All the best to all you lucky guys and girls who are eligible.

dreadsoc

Pincher can you please provide verification of this - it is completely different to what my mate has been told by the WAPOL recruitment who told him that because he will have 7 years and one week service on the closing date for applications he is not eligible - and that is his total accumulative police service without deduction of absence.
Please can you provide a link showing where you got this information from

Thanks

Dread - x

Pincher

Hi Dread.
It was from speaking to WAPol over clarification of the Recognition of Prior Service form which is in the Lateral entry part of the Stepforward site.
My wife is an Ozzie and I will be applying for a spouse visa in the next couple of weeks. I have 19 years in with Kent and intend to apply for the Lateral entry, part of which recognizes previous service allowing you to jump up the pay scale.
WAPol have told me, and its on the form, that prior service involves deducting leave, sickness and career breaks in order to determine at what level you can enter at.
Here is the link to the form:

http://www.stepforward.wa.gov.au/ima...iorservice.pdf

Reading it implies that if someone with 7 years and 1 months service(and therefore ineligible) deducts leave, sickness etc then they would be eligible if it takes them under 7 years.

Does this make sense? Hope this helps (and sorry if I'm wrong).
P

Philbo2005

M application will be sent... You only live once

dreadsoc

Hey Pincher

Thanks for the clarification there but it could be different for someone on a spouse visa to someone applying as an international transferee.
'G' 'spoke' to them on e mail exchange on Friday last week and when he questioned re police service the point about deducting leave and sickness etc did not come up and they did specifically ask his joining date in the UK.

However in the light of what you have said here I will tell him to re contact them and clarify this point....as if service means minus leave etc that would put him well within the eligibility stakes. I will post with any further info.

And Phil go for it and good luck

Dread - x