Transferee Recruitment Campaign - 1397/19

Date Responded 29 November 2019

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

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You asked:

Please can you provide me with the following information relating specifically to the most recent police constable transferee recruitment campaign which commenced from September 2019.

I would like the following information:

The number of applications that Northumbria Police received for the transferee campaign until it was removed from the Northumbria Police website.
The number of applicants that were successful and unsuccessful at the paper sifting stage.
The number of applicants that were successful at the interview stage and were given conditional offers to join Northumbria Police as a transferee and the number of number of unsuccessful applicants at this stage.

For each of the points please can you break down the number of applicants at each stage (successful and successful) by individual police forces.

In Response:

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

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

There were 45 Applications received for the Transferee campaign in September 2019, broken down by force as follows:

Police Force	Applications
Bedfordshire Police	1
British Transport Police	7
Cheshire Constabulary	1
Civil Nuclear Constabulary	2
Cleveland Police	4
Cumbria Constabulary	3
Durham Constabulary	2
Greater Manchester Police	2
Hampshire Constabulary	1
Kent County Constabulary	1
Metropolitan Police	12
Ministry of Defence	2
Northumbria Police	2
Police Scotland	3
Thames Valley Police	1
West Yorkshire Police	1
Total	45

2. 12 Applicants were successful at the sifting stage; 33 applicants were not successful at sifting stage, broken down by force as follows:

Force	Invite to interview	Not Successful
Bedfordshire Police	0	1
British Transport Police	0	7
Cheshire Constabulary	1	0
Civil Nuclear Constabulary	0	2
Cleveland Police	2	2
Cumbria Constabulary	1	3
Durham Constabulary	0	2
Greater Manchester Police	1	1
Hampshire Constabulary	1	0
Kent County Constabulary	0	1
Metropolitan Police	5	6
Ministry of Defence	1	1
Northumbria Police	0	2
Police Scotland	0	3
Thames Valley Police	0	1
West Yorkshire Police	0	1
Total	12	33

3. No information held as Interviews have not taken place at this time.

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

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