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15/03/2002
Police recruitment figures "surpass" targets
The company responsible for recruiting members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland has said there has been a strengthening of support from the Catholic community.
According to the latest figures released by Consensia Partnership, the second wave of recruitment resulted in almost 5,000 applications. Of the totally new candidates, 43 per cent were Catholic and 57 per cent non-Catholic. There was also a significant increase in responses from applicants in the Republic of Ireland.
The RUC became the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) last November, when the first recruits to the newly renamed service started training. They are due to graduate in April 2002.
In phases one and two, targets have been surpassed with the aim of bringing 370 trainees into the police service. That figure will now be closer to 500.
The Northern Ireland Policing Board has welcomed the news as another important step for policing in Northern Ireland.
Chairman Des Rea said: “The creation of an inclusive police service, not just in terms of religious balance, but also in respect to gender and ethnic minorities, is vitally important.”
However, Alex Maskey of Sinn Fein said he believed the statistics were misleading, and maintained that the number of catholic applicants at this stage of the recruitment process has dropped by more than one third from the earlier stage.
He stated: “Despite the high level recruitment drive, nationalists are clearly not responding. It is clear that nationalists and republicans do not view current policing arrangements as a new beginning to policing. They do not see the PSNI as a representative and accountable policing service.” (AMcE)
According to the latest figures released by Consensia Partnership, the second wave of recruitment resulted in almost 5,000 applications. Of the totally new candidates, 43 per cent were Catholic and 57 per cent non-Catholic. There was also a significant increase in responses from applicants in the Republic of Ireland.
The RUC became the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) last November, when the first recruits to the newly renamed service started training. They are due to graduate in April 2002.
In phases one and two, targets have been surpassed with the aim of bringing 370 trainees into the police service. That figure will now be closer to 500.
The Northern Ireland Policing Board has welcomed the news as another important step for policing in Northern Ireland.
Chairman Des Rea said: “The creation of an inclusive police service, not just in terms of religious balance, but also in respect to gender and ethnic minorities, is vitally important.”
However, Alex Maskey of Sinn Fein said he believed the statistics were misleading, and maintained that the number of catholic applicants at this stage of the recruitment process has dropped by more than one third from the earlier stage.
He stated: “Despite the high level recruitment drive, nationalists are clearly not responding. It is clear that nationalists and republicans do not view current policing arrangements as a new beginning to policing. They do not see the PSNI as a representative and accountable policing service.” (AMcE)
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