interesting question. my job (bout 750 cops) seems to rely a lot on one recruiter. one background checker. and I think this brings in bias. might be different for the larger forces, definitely could be more problematic when you job has under a couple of hundred people..........interested to hear other's experience here. I too have known some good people that just could not get hired......
Or it could just boil down to a poor interview. Some jobs, it doesn’t matter what your CV looks like, if you don’t hit all the points their looking for on the interview, you don’t get a call back.
Been there, done that, didn’t get the t-shirt.
A lot of places have moved to a “competency-based interview”. Basically, “tell us about a time you did x”. And in your answer, you had best hit all the points they’re looking for, or you’re not advancing. If you’re terrible at or get nervous during interviewing, don’t like blowing your own horn, or hate telling a story in minute detail, this can be a roadblock to advancing in an application process even with a stellar CV and character references up the wazoo. Although the interview feels subjective, your responses are objectively measured, so it’s easy to see how “good applicants” appear to get shafted when they actually thundered the interview.Don't know how the do them now, but I remember mine with the Dept. of Emergency Service. There was no internet to look up what to expect, so I put on a suit, shined my shoes, and went in with a smile.
They were downright rude. Barely acknowledged, or looked me in the eye. Some questions had nothing to do with the job. Lot of personal stuff. No handshakes or hello / goodbyes. Just a dismissal.
Not a pleasant experience. But, I got a phone call saying I got the T-shirt. That's all that mattered.
Later on, after probation, they were nice guys. "We were just fu%in with ya."
This is a background check/security failure.
Kinda has that vibe to me too. There are plenty of decent but not overly impressive people getting into policing. If someone isn’t getting picked up despite a seemingly excellent CV, I always wonder what we don’t know about but the recruiters do.
The candidate admitted to doing something dumb during his army days, not super dumb, but a chargeable offence, which the military did not consider worth charging them for. That was mentioned as the major issue by the recruiter. By that standard, most of us could not apply.
That makes sense- like from the process standpoint. Not that I agree with it.
God dammit Doug…
The police colleges are professional training institutes that train skills and knowledge narrowed to performing the job at a basic level with max supervision as part of your field coaching. They aren’t at all the same as the sort of deeper and broader academic knowledge being envisioned by those pushing for reform in police training.
Yes. They are announcing and juggling a few things at once. The Community Safety and Policing Act was legislated by the previous Liberal government but never enacted it before they fell. It has sat, entirely or almost so (there might be one or two sections related to Police Services Boards that were enacted) dormant on the books ever since. The 'why' is only known to the stars and insiders, but the current Conservatives were pretty keen on reversing just about everything Liberal that they could. Also, the new Act was much heavier in it's oversight of police services, being written during the heady days of BLM and 'defund' movements, and the Conservatives campaigned on 'public safety'. Subsequent budget cuts notwithstanding.
