Police: Recruitment
(asked on 27th April 2016) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government how many candidates have applied for admission to the Direct Entry Superintendent programme since its inception, and of those, how many were successful.
The direct entry to superintendent scheme has been running since 2014; over the three years of its operation it has had a total of 2,049 applications.
The first direct entry scheme to inspector launched this year. There were 1,647 ap-plications and the selection process is ongoing. The first cohort are expected to start in November.
Details of success and retention for the direct entry to superintendent scheme are outlined in the table below.
Year | Applications | Successful at the assessment centre | Started the scheme | In post at 1 April 2016 |
2014 | 867 | 13 | 9 | 8 |
2015 | 542 | 7 | 6 | 6 |
2016 | 640 | - | - | - |
Assessment centres for the 2016 inspectors’ and superintendents’ schemes will take place this summer.