Transferee Eligibility Requirements & Application Process

The fitness test allows an assessment to be made of your endurance to ensure you are able to meet the demands of operational policing.

The test focuses upon aerobic capacity.  The purpose of the fitness test is to ensure you have a basic level of fitness for entry into the police service.  You will carry out a shuttle run over a 15 metre area and run in time with a bleep.  At the end of each level the time in between the bleeps is shortened and you therefore have to run faster to keep up with the pace.   The recruit pass mark is level 5.4. This involves running for approximately 3 minutes 40 seconds. If you do not think you can achieve this level, you should ensure you start improving your fitness levels as soon as you can (please check with your doctor before making any big changes to your fitness regime).

Officers in some specialist posts and those who are required to undertake Officer Safety Training as part of their role are required to complete a fitness test throughout their employment to ensure they are able to meet the demands of operational policing.

You must not have any outstanding integrity matters.

Transferees must be in a substantive police officer position, having completed your probationary period.

In order to re-join as a police officer, you must have completed your two years’ probationary period and be a confirmed officer.

Your absence history will be verified as part of the recruitment process and you will be asked to provide referees to verify your absence history for the past 12 months. We ask you for further information regarding any absence or pattern of absences that fall within the below criteria. (Any absence may be discounted for pregnancy or disability related reasons)

• You have been absent from work through one period of absence for 28 or more days, or
• You have been absent from work through sickness on three or more separate occasions, or
• Your sickness record during this period displays a pattern of absence which would cause doubts about your reliability.

You will not be tested for substance misuse upon transferring. You may be subject to substance misuse testing at any stage during your employment if you are successful.

Tattoos and facial piercings become relevant if they could reasonably cause offence to members of the public or colleagues. Tattoos are not necessarily a bar to appointment. However, some tattoos could potentially offend members of the public or colleagues, or could bring discredit to the police service. Tattoos (visible or otherwise) are not acceptable if they:

• undermine the dignity and authority of the office of constable;
• cause offence to members of the public or colleagues and/or invite provocation;
• indicate unacceptable attitudes towards any individual or section of the community;
• indicate alignment with a particular group which could give offence to members of the public or colleagues; and
• be considered inflammatory, rude, lewd, crude, racist, sexist, sectarian, homophobic, violent or intimidating.

If your tattoo is determined as not acceptable, your application will not be progressed.