waiting game

mikkyb · Post by **mikkyb** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 7:42 am

Hello people,reading the boards for last few months now and learnt alot so thanx.
Posting at this god awful time because im currently at work doing night shift. Me and a good friend of mine started the whole application process back in january 2007,passed everything together,application,assessment,interview and medical but he got his uniform fitted ages before me and has now begun training! happy for him gutted for me,see we worked overnight together and now stuck here by meself with an oddjob lookalike from james bond, someone who resembles the honey monster with questionable hygiene and a lady with a dodgy eye who i can never workout if she is looking at me!
Why does it take so long!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! applying to cleveland btw.
Any help or advice or if anyone in same position please reply.

vespa · Post by **vespa** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:21 am

It's the same in North Yorkshire mate...a few of us on this site have been put on hold (read the recruitment thread on this section) the thing to do is just hang on and stay positive as resilience is one of the core compenticies...lol

kizzy_k · Post by **kizzy_k** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:52 pm

HI MIkky,

YOu could always give recruitment a ring and see what they say. Don't give up.

Kx

mikkyb · Post by **mikkyb** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:58 pm

hi vespa and kizzy thanks for the reply,read the recruitment thread was gutted for you vespa! when i read it i just thought that is so gona happen to me! soooooo frustrating.

Kizzy how are you finding it?

vespa · Post by **vespa** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:55 pm

Yeah I was gutted too mikky, but Karen's worse off than me because she sort of got a start date but still got the same letter as me! You want to do what Kizzy sugested and give em a ring!

kizzy_k · Post by **kizzy_k** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:48 pm

mikkyb wrote:Kizzy how are you finding it?

start on monday, got my uniform fitting on friday. i've been lucky as west yorkshire have only taken 19/20 people on. we're just replacing the PCSOs who have left to become PCs. give recruitment a ring and see what they say, they are very helpful and really friendly (well mine was, i had to ring up or email about ten times about my references lol).

Hope you hear something soon.

hey, at least it might be nice and warm when you've finished your training and not all wet and snowy

k xx

ps: join the forum, there's lots of nice people on here and interesting things

ANTHONY C · Post by **ANTHONY C** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:46 pm

Once the waiting is over the training will fly by, thats going by my experiance.

mikkyb · Post by **mikkyb** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:47 pm

Have tried recruitment several times since i had my uniform fitting and all i get is the same " waiting for clearance to come back" but they wont give me any further info" .

Thanx for all the advice dudes

gordo43 · Post by **gordo43** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 5:09 pm

i work for cleveland - took around 4 months after sending them back the security forms to getting a start date. keep ringing them up every couple of weeks for an update and ask when the next intake is. this part of the process takes the longest - hopefully you'll have some good news soon

mikkyb · Post by **mikkyb** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:50 pm

Thanx for the info, got a letter yesterday saying they had recieved info from my gp(had and passed my medical 4 months ago) and i got an appointment with the force doctor this thursday???????