Temporary agency work - 1247/18

Date Responded 09 January 2019

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

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You asked:

Does your organisation use Temporary Agency companies to fill vacancies (temporarily)?
If so, what companies does your organisation use/advertise through?

In Response:

We have now had the opportunity to fully consider your request and I provide a response for your attention.

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with the Human Resources Department of Northumbria Police. I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

I am able to disclose the located information to you as follows.

Northumbria Police do use Temporary Agency companies to fill vacancies temporarily however, we don’t use the agencies on a regular basis and perhaps only for hard to fill or specialist roles.
Primarily we use the following agencies following a shortlisting exercise:

Harvey Nash
Oceans Blue
NRG
Solos
Tetrad
TRS Group
Reed Recruitment

In addition to the above, we have previously used the following agencies:

Calibre
Hays
Nigel Wright
X4 Group
Yoh
Opus
Nigel Frank
Graham Matthews
Hainton
LMR
Reed
BMC Recruitment
Sellick

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